Serbia's longtime nationalist leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat Sunday in snap parliamentary elections to a student-led opposition movement.

Exiled Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela for the first time since December and is testing the U.S.-backed government.

Japanese prosecutors have indicted a US Marine on suspicion of murdering and robbing a woman in Okinawa earlier this month, multiple Japanese media outlets have reported, in a case that has prompted renewed outrage over the conduct of US troops in the country.

China's ruling ⁠Communist Party began ​its fifth plenum ‌on Monday in ‌Beijing, ⁠aiming ⁠to deliberate major issues about "sustained advancement ​of full and rigorous party ​self-governance", state television CCTV ⁠said.

Protests over inequality and living costs drew an estimated 410,000 people across France, with clashes in several cities for a second straight weekend.

Australia’s Parliament has resumed with enhanced security and paid tribute to a member who was injured last week in an alleged act of political violence.

Algeria’s parliament has approved a resolution to send troops to Niger. This marks the first time since 1973 that Algerian soldiers will be deployed abroad. Algerian Sen. Belkacem Boulghiti says

The Bank of Japan ​will likely declare victory in a nearly 14-year battle to hit its 2% inflation target at its policy meeting on Friday and ‌emphasise the risks prices could overshoot, signaling the chance of a rate hike as soon as December.