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Thailand's Prime Minister and leader of Bhumjaithai Party Anutin Charnvirakul, center, leave after a press conference at the party headquarters following the general election in Bangkok, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s ruling Bhumjaithai party tops election that marks a conservative comeback

12:24 AM on Monday, February 9

The Bhumjaithai Party of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is on track to win the most seats in Thailand’s general election, according to unofficial results

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says a close ally was kidnapped hours after being released from prison

11:54 PM on Sunday, February 8

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says a close ally was kidnapped hours after being released from prison

Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumps 4.5% after Prime Minister Takaichi's ruling party wins a stronger majority in election.

9:23 PM on Sunday, February 8

Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumps 4.5% after Prime Minister Takaichi's ruling party wins a stronger majority in election.

Children cast their votes in Portugal’s presidential election, but for fictional characters

7:02 PM on Sunday, February 8

Children visiting polling stations in Portugal with their parents during the presidential election got to cast votes for their favorite fictional characters

FILE - A Vote Here sign is posted amongst political signs as people arrive to vote at the Rutherford County Annex Building, an early voting site, Oct. 17, 2024, in Rutherfordton, N.C. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File)

Judge rejects Democrats’ plea for early voting sites at 3 North Carolina universities

6:05 PM on Sunday, February 8

A federal judge has refused to help in attempts to open early voting sites at three public North Carolina universities

FILE - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, then owner of the Hong Kong and Taiwan newspaper Apple Daily, attends the Seminar on Tenth Anniversary of Hong Kong's Handover organized by Democratic Party in Hong Kong, June 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

What to know about Jimmy Lai's Hong Kong journey from media mogul and activist to convict

5:18 PM on Sunday, February 8

Former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has become what observers say is a symbol of the 2020 crackdown on press freedoms in Hong Kong

Israel's security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over the West Bank

3:55 PM on Sunday, February 8

Israel's security cabinet has approved measures to strengthen control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the powers of the Palestinian Authority

Israel's President Isaac Herzog, right, and his wife Michal Herzog, second right, visit Bondi Beach, where a mass shooting took place in Dec. 2025, in Sydney, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

What to know about the Israeli president's state visit to Australia

3:00 PM on Sunday, February 8

Israel President Isaac Herzog visits Australia to support the Jewish community after an antisemitic attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach left 15 dead

FILE - Hunter Hess, of the United States, executes a trick in the halfpipe finals during the World Cup U.S. Grand Prix freestyle skiing event in Copper Mountain, Colo., Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey, File)

US Olympians speaking up about politics at home face online backlash — including from Trump

2:58 PM on Sunday, February 8

U.S. Olympians are beginning to face backlash for speaking out about domestic politics at the Milan Cortina Games

Opposition leaders María Oropeza and Juan Pablo Guanipa, left, ride motorbikes through Caracas, Venezuela, after their release from custody, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela frees several opposition members after lengthy politically motivated detentions

1:15 PM on Sunday, February 8

Venezuela’s government has released several prominent opposition members from prison, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado

Rescue workers and residents search for survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo)

Rescue teams search for survivors in building collapse that killed at least 9 in northern Lebanon

10:45 AM on Sunday, February 8

A multistory apartment building has collapsed in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, killing at least nine people

FILE - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, talks with Britain's ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP, file)

UK leader's chief of staff quits over appointment of Mandelson as ambassador despite Epstein ties

9:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has resigned over the controversy surrounding Peter Mandelson's appointment as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Morgan McSweeney said he advised Starmer to appoint Mandelson, despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

People stand in line for free hot meals that veterans of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of Ukraine's Armed Forces serve in residential neighborhood as repeated Russian air attacks on the country's energy sector leave people without power, heating and water in the harshest winter in decades in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russian airstrike on Ukrainian city kills 1 as US pushes June deadline for peace deal

5:31 AM on Sunday, February 8

A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine has killed one person and wounded two others

FILE - IMA president Jack Lang arrive before visiting the exhibition "Treasures rescued from Gaza" Monday, April 14, 2025 at the Arab World Institute (IMA) in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool, File)

France's former culture minister resigns over Epstein-linked tax fraud investigation

4:37 AM on Sunday, February 8

France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center

FILE - Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu gives a joint statement with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Nigeria's president to make a state visit to the UK in March

4:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

Buckingham Palace says Nigeria’s president will make a state visit to the U.K. in March

Thailand's Prime Minister and leader of Bhumjaithai Party Anutin Charnvirakul, center, speaks during a press conference at the party headquarters following the general election in Bangkok, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand's conservative Bhumjaithai party tops polls but will need partners to form government

7:01 PM on Saturday, February 7

The Bhumjaithai party of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has taken a commanding lead in Thailand’s general election

Sanae Takaichi, center, Japan's prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), puts pins marking the names of candidates who won lower house elections, at the LDP headquarters Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026 in Tokyo, (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Prime Minister Takaichi’s party wins a supermajority in Japan's lower house

5:07 PM on Saturday, February 7

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party has secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election

FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 17, 2025. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP, File)

A charismatic straight talker, Japan's Takaichi expands her power after huge election win

7:18 PM on Friday, February 6

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's party won a huge election Sunday, taking advantage of her popularity among fans who see the hardline conservative as someone who speaks her mind and can bring change

FILE - This courtroom sketch depicts Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, during a Circuit Court hearing before Judge Claude V. Worrell Jr., Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Charlottesville, Va. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her

7:04 AM on Friday, February 6

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family

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