As general elections approach this week in Bangladesh, opposition leader Abdul Moyeen Khan says he had to hide out in the homes of a string of acquaintances.

Russian drones attacked a university and a museum linked to two of the most prominent 20th century defenders of Ukrainian national identity.

Japan struggled to assess the extent of damage from an earthquake that struck its west coast.

South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern port city of Busan, the Yonhap news agency reported.

Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a highly disputed law passed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government that rolled back some of the high court’s power and sparked months of nationwide protests.

Pope Francis on Monday denounced a growing crackdown on the Catholic Church in Nicaragua by the government of President Daniel Ortega.

Nicaragua and China on Monday formally started trading under a new free trade agreement.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview published that the notion that Russia was winning the nearly two-year-old war was only a “feeling” and that Moscow was still suffering heavy battlefield losses.

The powerful earthquake that hit central Japan on New Year’s Day killed at least five people.

The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier will return to its home port, the U.S. Navy said, ending its deployment to the eastern Mediterranean.

Israel is withdrawing some forces from Gaza to shift to more targeted operations against Hamas.

Thousands of people in Japan are spending the night in evacuation centres after a powerful earthquake.