Brent crude oil traded near $105 per barrel on Monday as Gulf countries reported more attacks by Iran with the war entering its third week, while share prices were mixed. A barrel of Brent, the international standard,

Myanmar has opened its first parliamentary session in more than five years following an election that did not include major opposition parties, ensuring that the ruling military is set to retain a firm grasp on power.

Senior Vatican officials have spoken out sharply against the war in the Middle East, but Pope Leo XIV made a tempered call for peace that did not assess blame.

Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said.

Japan has no plan to dispatch naval vessels to escort vessels in the Middle East, ​Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday, after U.S. ‌President Donald Trump called on allies to protect tankers traversing through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Israel Defense Forces said Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali was responsible for managing weapons operations for the unit within the U.S.-designated terrorist group.

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s supporters packed central Budapest in a show of strength a month before elections that polls show could spell the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

French municipal elections Sunday gave political parties an early test of their electoral machines before next year’s presidential race to succeed President Emmanuel Macron, with a first round of voting for mayors and their teams across France,