Japan's parliament elects Shigeru Ishiba, newly elected governing party leader, as the country's prime minister.

The Israeli military began what it called a ''limited, localized'' operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, carrying out ''targeted ground raids'' in villages close to the ...

Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter Humberto Ortega, a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega, died Monday at 77, Nicaragua's army said.

Voting in the final phase of the election to choose a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir began Tuesday in the first such vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government stripped the ...