Indonesian authorities intensified on Monday a search for dozens of people missing after a ferry overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea previous day. At least six passengers were killed and 129 people are still missing.

Indonesian rescuers say about 140 passengers and crew were missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea

The search for survivors of a capsized ferry in Indonesia has intensified as 17 ships and aircraft from the military, police and other agencies were deployed

Indonesian rescuers say about 130 passengers and crew are missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people sank in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday. At least 107 people were rescued and the bodies of six passengers were recovered as the search operation expanded in waters around the vessel’s last known

A Muslim autonomous region in the southern Philippines is holding its first parliamentary elections MANILA, Philippines — A predominantly Muslim region in the southern Philippines held its first parliamentary elections on Monday,

Voters in a predominantly Muslim autonomous region of the Philippines began casting ballots in the area’s first-ever parliamentary election, more than a decade after a peace deal with separatists ended four decades of conflict.

Voting began on Monday in the Philippines' Muslim-majority south ⁠under ⁠heightened security after three people were killed ⁠and 15 wounded in violence on the eve of the historic election. The vote is seen as a ​crucial test of efforts seeking to bring lasting peace and development to a region once torn by separatist conflict and extremism which peaked in the 2017 siege ‌of Marawi City by Islamic State-linked militants.

Nearly 2.4 million registered voters in the Philippines are expected to cast ballots in the Muslim-majority south's first parliamentary election, the culmination of a decade-long peace process aimed at ending separatist conflict and completing the ​transition to elected self-government.

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s next government remained uncertain on Monday as the national election inched toward a final result, with a thin lead for the left-wing opposition and an underwhelming performance by a hard-right anti-immigration party.

Partial results from Sweden's national election on Sunday showed conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's four-party alliance locked in a close race with opposition parties on the left including former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats.

Sweden's national election results showed a narrow lead early on Monday for the centre-left opposition over the ​right-wing government, which could halt the Nordic nation's drift away from its liberal heritage.

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday brushed aside a report that Iran acquired ​satellite images of a base in Jordan from Chinese ‌entities before an attack that killed three U.S. troops there in July.

It is an unintended feature of President Donald Trump’s Plan B for defeating Iran — economic strangulation — that the more successful the policy becomes, the more risk the men who run the Islamic Republic are willing to accept to fight it.

President Donald Trump claimed that the war with Iran will end "right after" the midterm elections in the U.S. on Sunday.

President Trump addressed the nation Saturday night after the United States launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.

Uganda's King Oyo Nyimba, who was once the world's youngest monarch, was buried on Saturday amid an acrimonious succession dispute that has rocked the royal family and gripped the nation.

The funeral is underway in western Uganda for a traditional monarch who ascended the throne of the Tooro Kingdom as an infant in 1995 and died last month at 34

Mourners have gathered in Fort Portal, Uganda, to bury King Oyo Nyimba of the Tooro Kingdom. He ascended the throne in 1995 aged three.

The king died on Aug. 27 while receiving cancer treatment in the U.S., and his body was later transported back to Uganda