Bob Vallier, a Paris resident who has mostly lived outside the United States for the past 30 years, has already voted in his home state of Michigan for the Nov. 5 election.

Junior doctors in India’s eastern city of Kolkata called off on Monday a 17-day-old hunger strike launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague, they said, in response to an appeal by the victim’s parents.

Britain’s King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia’s urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney, a day after being heckled by an Indigenous senator in Canberra.

Peru’s former president Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

Emotional farewells are a common sight at airports, but travellers leaving the New Zealand city of Dunedin will have to be quick.

Discrimination of women of colour is trending in the wrong direction, with surveying showing racism is still prevalent in corporate Australia.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make another push for a ceasefire when he heads to the Middle East, seeking to kick-start negotiations to end the Gaza war and also defuse the spillover conflict in Lebanon.

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with several waves of drones for the second night in a row, damaging residential buildings and injuring at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces say they have shot down a cargo jet in the country’s far western reaches of Darfur, a claim that Russian diplomats say they are trying to investigate in the war zone.

Australian attempting to access pornographic websites and certain online games will be subject to age tests under online safety proposals that could come into effect in 2025.

Hundreds of Beirut residents fled their homes late on Sunday with multiple explosions heard across the Lebanese capital, as Israel prepared to attack sites linked to the financial operations of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and told people to leave those areas immediately.

King Charles and Queen Camilla have been confronted by a protest over Indigenous rights and a sneezy alpaca on the latest leg of their Australian tour.