Provisional results show the incumbent extending his rule after a boycott-driven election in which opposition figures said the outcome was effectively predetermined.
Nepal’s Election Commission has confirmed Bhumika Shrestha as a proportional-representation MP, a milestone that makes her the country’s first transgender woman lawmaker.
Police are investigating after a blast damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam and heightened concern after other recent attacks on Jewish sites in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Thousands of people rallied in Spanish cities including Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia to protest the Iran war and the fighting in Gaza, reviving the country's anti-war movement.
Authorities said a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township killed the suspect and wounded 31 others, sending shock waves through the Detroit-area Jewish community.
The International Criminal Court has ended a probe into whether US sanctions on Venezuela amounted to crimes against humanity, even as it advances a separate Belarus investigation.
Israel’s military has dropped charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman, ending a case that split the country.
Human rights activist Andrie Yunus suffered burns over 24% of his body after attackers on a motorcycle splashed acid at him in central Jakarta, according to police and KontraS.
Police identified the suspect in the Old Dominion University shooting as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, an ex-Army National Guard member with a past terror conviction.
Police in Fribourg canton say a bus fire in Kerzers left at least six dead and five injured, and investigators are treating the blaze as a possible deliberate act.
The 76-year-old patriarch said he is stepping down to focus on prayer, writing and simple service, after years of friction with Iraqi politics and a church left weakened by war.