Israeli and American leaders have been sharpening their threats ahead of elections in both countries, while Iranian leaders have remained defiant.

Opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado reappeared in Venezuela Sunday for the first time since December, returning from exile at a time when doubts about the country's democratic future — and the role of the U.

President Donald Trump at a Sunday political rally predicted a trade dispute with Canada would ​be resolved "soon," without providing specifics.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who led the country for just one year and spent years afterward trying to build better ties with China, has died, officials said Monday. He was 90. He died on Thursday,

Nine people were killed and dozens were wounded in the attack last week on a Greek Orthodox Church in southern Jordan.

North Korea accused South Korea of fabricating last month's land mine explosions inside the DMZ in a letter to the president of the U.N. Security Council, state-run media reported Monday.

Japanese prosecutors have indicted a US Marine on suspicion of murdering and robbing a woman in Okinawa earlier this month, multiple Japanese media outlets have reported, in a case that has prompted renewed outrage over the conduct of US troops in the country.

Russia's FSB security ⁠service ⁠has thwarted a planned ⁠Ukrainian drone attack from inside Russia on ​a key element of Moscow's air defence system and on an electricity facility, ‌the FSB said on ‌Monday,