Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's honeymoon with the voters is fading as scandals and a slowing economic recovery take a toll on his popularity and hinder progress on his policy agenda.
Japan's new trade and industry minister received contributions from a company in which foreign investors held a majority stake, but he was not aware of the possible violation of the political funding law at the time and has returned the money, an aide said on Monday.
Thai authorities have banned beach parties on some holiday islands to stop gatherings that can get out of control and lead to violence, after the murder of two British backpackers last month, an official said on Monday.
A US teen who had been fighting for her life after a fellow high school student shot her in the head in a Friday rampage has died, the hospital caring for her said.
Leftist President Dilma Rousseff vowed to reconcile Brazil, reboot the economy and fight corruption after narrowly winning re-election on Sunday in the most divisive race since the return to democracy in 1985.
Ukraine's pro-Western and moderately nationalist parties were on course on Monday to score a major election victory, boosting President Petro Poroshenko's bid to merge his ex-Soviet country with Europe and end a revolt.
Brazilians went to the polls on Sunday in a bitterly contested election that pits a leftist president with strong support among the poor against a centrist senator who is promising pro-business policies to jump-start a stagnant economy.
Voters in Ukraine went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament, overhauling a legislature in which many deputies were linked with ousted president Viktor Yanukovych.
A state of emergency was in force in parts of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Sunday after a suicide bombing by a suspected jihadist that killed 30 soldiers, which President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said was carried out with "external support".
A former mushroom and poultry farmer has been crowned Miss Uganda, following a major rebranding of the annual beauty pageant to promote agriculture in the east African nation.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power arrived in Guinea's capital, Conakry, on Sunday on a mission to see firsthand how the global response is failing to stop the deadly spread of Ebola in West Africa. Power, who will also visit Sierra Leone and Liberia, said she hopes to gain a better understanding of what resources are missing so she can push other countries to offer more help.
Hanno D. Wentzler, the Asia regional representative for the century-old Freudenberg Group, will continue the diverse family-owned company's principle to also make it a responsible corporate citizen in China.
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