Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament. It also gives her the political power to make a strong rightward shift in Japan’s security,

China critic and media mogul Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences, a penalty his son Sebastien called "heartbreaking." Lai was found guilty on charges of sedition and conspiracy to collude with foreign forces.

At least three people were killed in Russian overnight drone and missile strikes, the Interior Ministry in Kyiv reported on Monday.

A rubber boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea last week after taking on water, leaving 53 people migrating to Europe from North Africa presumed dead.

The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades last year (2025) left thousands of residents without some of their friends, family or the place they called home.

Detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has received another prison sentence of over seven years.

Delcy Rodríguez and Diosdado Cabello must IMMEDIATELY RELEASE JUAN PABLO GUANIPA, and ensure every political prisoner is free to live without oppression. The U.S. is watching.” Newsweek reached out to Scott via email for further comment on Monday.

The U.S. military on Monday said it launched a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor, the latest such incident.