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

Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supporters said Sunday, as Tehran cracks down on all dissent following nationwide protests and the deaths of thousands at the hands of security forces.

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

Fires damaged Italy's northern rail line on the first day of the Winter Olympic Games in what investigators are calling acts of sabotage by arsonists.

Venezuela’s government on Sunday released from prison several prominent opposition members, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, after lengthy politically motivated detentions.

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.

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.

At least three people have been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.