Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party claimed an overwhelming victory in the first phase of the country’s junta-run elections, a senior party official told AFP, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule.

Violence in western and southern Sudan displaced more than 10,000 people within a three-day period this week, according to figures released by the United Nations’ migration agency on Sunday.

Nepal’s former interior minister Ramesh Lekhak yesterday gave evidence before an inquiry investigating the deadly crackdown during the September uprising that toppled the government.

Thailand’s army yesterday accused Cambodia of violating a newly signed ceasefire agreement, reached after weeks of deadly border clashes, by flying more than 250 drones over its territory.

Three Turkish police officers and six Islamic State militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey yesterday, the interior minister said, a week after more than 100 suspected IS militants were detained for planning Christmas and New Year attacks.

China launched its most extensive war games around Taiwan yesterday to showcase Beijing’s ability to cut off the island from outside support in a conflict, testing Taipei’s resolve to defend itself and its arsenal of US-made weapons.

The pledge is due to be announced in Geneva later on Monday

The six IS operatives killed were all Turkish

The route saw a surge of migrants from Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan

The Southeast Asian neighbours on Saturday ended weeks of fierce fighting that killed at least 101 people

The two leaders are to meet at 1 pm (1800 GMT), the White House said.

The prosecution team earlier this month sought a 15-year prison sentence for former First Lady Kim Keon Hee

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.