Saudi Arabia on Thursday formally called on Emirati-backed separatists in Yemen to withdraw from two governorates their forces now control in the country, a move that threatens sparking a confrontation within a fragile coalition that's battling the Houthi rebels there.

Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka on Thursday, ending a 17-year exile in Britain, and is favored to become prime minister.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national bravery award to honor those who confronted an antisemitic terror attack.

Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country's fragile democracy undone by a 2021 army takeover,

Polish Air Force fighters intercepted a Russian military reconnaissance aircraft that came near Polish airspace while over the Baltic Sea on Thursday.

The Israeli military said on Thursday that its forces killed a member of Iran's Quds Force in Lebanon who had been involved in planning attacks from Syria and Lebanon. The military identified the man as Hussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari,

Jair Bolsonaro, who has been hospitalized since Wednesday, has been serving a 27-year prison sentence​ since November for an attempted coup.

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday (December 25), in an unusually direct appeal during what is typically a spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus.