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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island that killed 20 people

Raj Sud, 94, has voted in almost every election held in independent India, bearing witness to the eventful journey of a diverse, and now the world’s most populous, democracy over the last 76 years. Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote in India’s 6-week national election starting Friday, and the elderly homemaker has a clear favorite in the race. Most polls have predicted a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party for a third straight five-year term. “I like Modi very much. Modi is working honestly. And he is doing very good work and wants to make the whole country absolutely beautiful,” said Sud. Modi is considered a champion of the country’s Hindu majority and has overseen rapid economic growth during his last two terms. But critics say he's also undermined India’s democracy and its status as a secular nation with attacks by Hindu nationalists against the country’s minorities and a shrinking space for dissent and free...

China’s economy beat expectations in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and stronger demand

China's economy grew at 5.3% in the first quarter, beating estimates with help from policies and better demand

ABC News' Marcus Moore reports on the year-long war in Sudan that's forcing millions to flee and inflaming the humanitarian situation in the region.

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney against 2 clergymen is being treated as terrorism

Iran launched an unprecedented strike against Israel coming almost a month after Israel’s deadly attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria.

Mass coral reef bleaching can subject coral to mortality without intervention.

The mayor of Colombia’s capital has announced new measures to reduce water consumption in the city of eight million people, where a drought associated with the El Niño weather pattern has already prompted officials to ration water in most neighborhoods...

Chris Costa, former National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism, shares his analysis of what this means for both countries going forward.

Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started debating a divisive new law dubbed the foreign agent bill

Israel is still weighing its response to Iran's attack with a second day of war cabinet meetings. Israel's military chief says, "Israel will indeed respond."

A political prisoner in Belarus has shed light on the country’s brutal prison system by smuggling out her story written on pieces of toilet paper

Kirby, however, did say during his press briefing that the U.S. is committed to defending Israel.

Israel’s military chief says Israel will respond to Iran’s weekend missile strike

Israeli military chief warns "there will be a response" to Iranian missile attack

A U.S. citizen arrested on drug charges in Moscow amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions has appeared in court

Prince Harry’s fight for police protection in the U.K. has received another setback

An Israeli court has ordered the eviction of Palestinian family in a deeply contested neighborhood of east Jerusalem

The horrifying incident was captured on the church’s livestream.

French president says world donors are pledging 2 billion euros in aid for Sudan after a year of devastating war

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister is leading a high-level delegation on a two-day visit to Pakistan, which is seeking help in overcoming one of its worst economic crises

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with his war cabinet for the second time after being unable to make a final decision.

Heavy rainfall has caused flash flooding in Oman on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula and killed at least 17 people

The U.S. secretary of state has assured allies bordering the Black Sea they can depend on his country's support to make the region more secure, prosperous and integrated

Authorities in North Macedonia say 17 police officers serving at a prison in the country’s capital Skopje have been detained on suspicion of assisting in the separate escapes last year of two inmates, including a murder convict

Ukraine’s foreign minister says the success of Israel and its allies in largely thwarting a massive Iranian missile and drone attack shows what Ukraine could achieve against Russian aerial barrages if it had more support from its partners

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

The Philippine president says his administration has no plan to give the U.S. military access to more Philippine army sites

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has obtained permission from safety regulators to start loading atomic fuel into a reactor at its only operable plant in Japan, which it is keen to restart for the first time sin...

Iran’s direct attack on Israel over the weekend upended decades of its shadowy warfare by proxy, something Tehran has used to manage international repercussions for its actions

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person was an act of terrorism

Police say a man is arrested after reportedly stabbing a bishop and churchgoers in Sydney, with no major injuries.

A police operation is underway in Wakeley, New South Wales.

The European Union has disbursed about $6.7 billion to Poland as a part of the 27-nation bloc’s post-pandemic recovery fund, the biggest single transfer ever to the country

A local official in eastern Congo says extremist-linked rebels attacked villages over the weekend, killing at least 11 people, torching vehicles and taking possessions

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for fair competition in trade relations with China while warning about dumping and overproduction while speaking to students in Shanghai on Monday

Lawyers for Azerbaijan are urging the top United Nations court to throw out a case filed by Armenia linked to the long-running dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region

The Israeli military has renewed warnings for Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza

A key plank in the British government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is expected to become law this week

It's "one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory," the U.N. says.

An independent expert commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy

Israel’s military chief says the country will respond to Iran’s missile strike over the weekend

The European Union’s maritime security force says a cargo vessel seized in March by pirates off the Somali coast has been freed along with its crew

The trial of a former Syrian army general over his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 in his home country started at a Stockholm court, a first according to a human rights organization

Officials say lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 49 people across Pakistan in the past three days

A civil lawsuit demanding damages for alleged racial discrimination by police in Japan has opened in Tokyo District Court

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says he will step down on May 15 after two decades at the helm and hand power to his deputy Lawrence Wong

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says he will step down on May 15 and hand post to his deputy

French President Emmanuel Macron says world donors are pledging more than $2.1 billion in aid for Sudan