The UN special envoy for Syria faced an uphill task in Geneva on Monday to get talks to end the brutal civil war off the ground, as the opposition hesitated to join negotiations.
Myanmar's new parliament elected U Win Myint of the National League for Democracy on Monday as Speaker of the House of Representatives, or Lower House, and U Ti Khun Myat of the Union Solidarity and Development Party as Deputy Speaker of the House.
More than 10,000 unaccompanied migrant children have disappeared in Europe, the EU police agency Europol said on Sunday, fearing many have been whisked into sex trafficking rings or the slave trade.
Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance has slumped to its lowest level since July 2012 as opposition over her liberal refugee policy grows, a survey showed on Sunday, while a right-wing populist party polled a record high.
Japan has doubled the number of F-15 fighter jets deployed on the island of Okinawa, the defense ministry said on Sunday.
Azza al-Najjar struggles in vain to keep her two-year-old warm by wrapping him in blankets in her prefabricated metal home as a winter storm lashes the Gaza Strip.
The rapid spread of the Zika virus across Brazil is giving local authorities a headache as the country is gearing up for the annual carnival celebrations.
Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential hopeful beating Hillary Clinton in the Iowa polls, is the country's longest serving independent Congressman who is calling for a political revolution in America.
A tropical cyclone that crossed Australia's northwest coast early on Sunday weakened, although several small inland communities were on red alert and the risk of heavy swells, flooding and storm surges remained.
The Syrian government will "never accept" the removal of two militant groups from a list of terrorist organizations barred from peace talks, a Syrian official said.
NATO has called on Russia to act responsibly after Turkey summoned the Russian ambassador to protest what it claimed was a violation of its airspace by a Russian warplane.
The Turkish coastguard on Saturday recovered the bodies of women and children washed up on a beach after yet another migrant boat sank while trying to reach Europe, leaving at least 37 dead.
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