Rapper turned-Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah, known as Balen, a popular elected official, joined the Rastriya Swatantra Party

Seventeen families urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an open letter to "immediately establish a Commonwealth Royal Commission

Many bodies of the victims were found inside their rooms

The massively popular but dissolved party of democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi did not appear on ballots

This marks China's sixth major round of war games since 2022 after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the democratically governed island

The train's locomotive left the tracks during a trip in southern Oaxaca state

Acknowledges that the fate of the disputed Donbas region remains a key unresolved issue

Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus, a development that could bolster Russia’s ability to deliver missiles across Europe, two US researchers have found by studying satellite imagery.

French movie star and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91, her foundation said yesterday.

Israeli forces imposed a lockdown on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, their second day of operations there after a local resident “killed two people in Israel”.

The droves of young people who queued to cast ballots in past elections in Myanmar were conspicuous by their absence from yesterday’s military-run polls, with older voters dominating the turnout.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peacefully, Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force.

Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus, a development that could bolster Russia’s ability to deliver missiles across Europe, two US researchers have found by studying satellite imagery.

A 470-kilogramme (1,000-pound) World War II aerial bomb was safely removed yesterday from a construction site in a central district of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, police said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peacefully, Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force.

Kosovo voters headed to the polls yesterday for snap parliamentary elections, hoping to end ten months of political deadlock and crisis.

Guinea held a presidential election yesterday with victory all but assured for Mamady Doumbouya, a general who led the junta that seized power in the west African country four years ago.

No reports of violence by the time voting ended

In the attack on Friday a 34-year-old Palestinian man killed two people in northern Israel.

At least 47 people were killed and more than a million displaced in three weeks of fighting with artillery, tanks, drones and jets, according to official tallies.