The president ordered 20,000 more police recruits and broader deployments after a wave of killings and kidnappings, including the abduction of more than 300 schoolchildren.
Myanmar’s military government has announced a broad amnesty for political prisoners and a separate closure of thousands of cases ahead of next month’s election, in a move state media said was meant to widen voting rights and that critics view with deep skepticism.
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau say they have seized power, detained President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and suspended the electoral process while results from a disputed vote were still pending.
The European Court of Justice ruled that EU countries must recognize same-sex marriages lawfully performed in another member state, while stopping short of forcing every country to legalize such marriages at home.
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has started serving a 27-year sentence for leading a coup attempt, a landmark moment for a leader who long had allies arguing he might never face prison.
A federal judge dismissed the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James after ruling that the prosecutor who secured them was not lawfully appointed, setting up an immediate appeal fight with the Justice Department.
The One Nation senator was condemned as racist and disrespectful after returning to the chamber wearing a burqa to press her long-running ban proposal.
Israel approved a government plan to admit about 5,800 members of the Bnei Menashe community from northeast India and settle them in the Galilee over the next several years.
Belgian unions launched a three-day wave of strikes targeting rail, schools, hospitals, airports and public services in protest at Prime Minister Bart de Wever’s austerity program.
Egyptians voted in the second phase of parliamentary elections after authorities annulled results in about two dozen constituencies over alleged violations.
A High Court judge convicted ten defendants, including three women, and acquitted two others in a case tied to the killing of a 30-year-old man in 2011.
Preliminary results showed Sinisa Karan, an ally of barred Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, winning the snap presidential election in Republika Srpska.
Morgan Geyser, the woman convicted in the Slender Man stabbing case, was detained in Illinois after fleeing a Wisconsin group home and removing her monitoring bracelet.
A UK court has sentenced former Welsh MEP Nathan Gill to 10 and a half years in prison after he admitted taking bribes linked to statements promoting Russian interests.
Voters in Tonga have elected 26 members of the Legislative Assembly, with the nobility choosing the remaining seats in a parliament where every result matters.
Álvaro García Ortiz was handed a two-year ban from office and a fine in a case tied to a leaked email involving the partner of Madrid regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso.