Thailand's conservative-royalist party won the election Sunday, media outlets reported. The Bhumjaithai party secured 194 representative seats.

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Sunday that politician Juan Pablo Guanipa was kidnapped in the Los Chorros neighborhood of Caracas, hours after it was reported he had been freed in a prisoner release.

Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro has won Portugal’s presidential runoff election against hard-right populist André Ventura.

Congressional commission chair and vice chair warn Chinese-funded runways and ports across the Pacific Islands may provide future military access for Beijing

France dominated the second half of the mixed relay biathlon race at the Milan Cortina Olympics with fast skiing and strong shooting to take gold ahead of Italy and Germany.

Hundreds of traders and customs clearance company owners protested in central Baghdad on Sunday, demanding that Iraq's government reverse recently imposed customs tariffs that they say have sharply increased their costs and disrupted trade.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Sydney on Monday ahead of a multi-city trip aimed at expressing solidarity with Australia's Jewish community, after a December shooting at a Hanukkah event that killed 15.

The attack followed a series of assassinations of senior military officers that Russia has blamed on Ukraine. The Federal Security Service (FSB) said a Russian citizen, Lyubomir Korba, was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting.