Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been arrested over suspected collusion with foreign forces under the new national security law, his top aide said on Twitter, in what is the highest-profile arrest yet under the legislation.
Even before polling stations in Belarus had fully closed, the head of the country's election commission declared Sunday that fragmentary results showed authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko far ahead in his bid for a sixth consecutive term.
Thousands of students, environmental activists and residents of Mauritius have been working around the clock to reduce the damage to the Indian Ocean island from an oil spill after a tanker ran aground on a coral reef.
A new push from the federal government will allow Alaska Natives who are veterans of the Vietnam War to apply for 65 hectares of federal land in Alaska.
Australia's second-most populous state, Victoria, reported its deadliest day of the COVID-19 outbreak on Sunday, with 17 people dying, as police thwarted a planned anti-mask rally in the capital of Melbourne.
As world leaders hold talks on sending aid to Beirut after this week's catastrophic explosion in the city, Lebanon's information minister has announced her resignation.
