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Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumps 4.5% after Prime Minister Takaichi's ruling party wins a stronger majority in election.

8:23 PM on Sunday, February 8

Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumps 4.5% after Prime Minister Takaichi's ruling party wins a stronger majority in election.

Children cast their votes in Portugal’s presidential election, but for fictional characters

6:02 PM on Sunday, February 8

Children visiting polling stations in Portugal with their parents during the presidential election got to cast votes for their favorite fictional characters

FILE - A Vote Here sign is posted amongst political signs as people arrive to vote at the Rutherford County Annex Building, an early voting site, Oct. 17, 2024, in Rutherfordton, N.C. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File)

Judge rejects Democrats’ plea for early voting sites at 3 North Carolina universities

5:05 PM on Sunday, February 8

A federal judge has refused to help in attempts to open early voting sites at three public North Carolina universities

Israel's security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over the West Bank

2:55 PM on Sunday, February 8

Israel's security cabinet has approved measures to strengthen control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the powers of the Palestinian Authority

Israel's President Isaac Herzog, right, and his wife Michal Herzog, second right, visit Bondi Beach, where a mass shooting took place in Dec. 2025, in Sydney, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

What to know about the Israeli president's state visit to Australia

2:00 PM on Sunday, February 8

Israel President Isaac Herzog visits Australia to support the Jewish community after an antisemitic attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach left 15 dead

FILE - Hunter Hess, of the United States, executes a trick in the halfpipe finals during the World Cup U.S. Grand Prix freestyle skiing event in Copper Mountain, Colo., Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey, File)

US Olympians speaking up about politics at home face online backlash — including from Trump

1:58 PM on Sunday, February 8

U.S. Olympians are beginning to face backlash for speaking out about domestic politics at the Milan Cortina Games

Opposition leaders María Oropeza and Juan Pablo Guanipa, left, ride motorbikes through Caracas, Venezuela, after their release from custody, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela frees several opposition members after lengthy politically motivated detentions

12:15 PM on Sunday, February 8

Venezuela’s government has released several prominent opposition members from prison, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado

Rescue workers and residents search for survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo)

Rescue teams search for survivors in building collapse that killed at least 9 in northern Lebanon

9:45 AM on Sunday, February 8

A multistory apartment building has collapsed in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, killing at least nine people

FILE - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, talks with Britain's ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP, file)

UK leader's chief of staff quits over appointment of Mandelson as ambassador despite Epstein ties

8:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has resigned over the controversy surrounding Peter Mandelson's appointment as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Morgan McSweeney said he advised Starmer to appoint Mandelson, despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

FILE - Construction equipment is seen near new homes on July 11, 2025, in Happy Valley, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Voters are worried about the cost of housing. But Trump wants home prices to keep climbing

6:31 AM on Sunday, February 8

The White House is trying to show it's lowering the cost of living, but President Donald Trump has said he doesn't want to see the price of homes come down

People stand in line for free hot meals that veterans of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of Ukraine's Armed Forces serve in residential neighborhood as repeated Russian air attacks on the country's energy sector leave people without power, heating and water in the harshest winter in decades in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russian airstrike on Ukrainian city kills 1 as US pushes June deadline for peace deal

4:31 AM on Sunday, February 8

A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine has killed one person and wounded two others

Polls have closed in Thailand's general election where 3 main parties are competing for power

4:06 AM on Sunday, February 8

Polls have closed in Thailand's general election where 3 main parties are competing for power

FILE - IMA president Jack Lang arrive before visiting the exhibition "Treasures rescued from Gaza" Monday, April 14, 2025 at the Arab World Institute (IMA) in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool, File)

France's former culture minister resigns over Epstein-linked tax fraud investigation

3:37 AM on Sunday, February 8

France’s former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center

FILE - Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu gives a joint statement with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Nigeria's president to make a state visit to the UK in March

3:32 AM on Sunday, February 8

Buckingham Palace says Nigeria’s president will make a state visit to the U.K. in March

FILE - Federal agents walk down a street while conducting immigration enforcement operations, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy, File)

Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota

11:08 PM on Saturday, February 7

Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists in Minnesota

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, attends a meeting at the headquarters of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim expected to issue major policy goals at North Korea party congress in late February

7:17 PM on Saturday, February 7

North Korean state media says the country's leadership will convene a major political conference later this month

Thailand's Prime Minister and leader of Bhumjaithai Party Anutin Charnvirakul, center, speaks during a press conference at the party headquarters following the general election in Bangkok, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand's conservative Bhumjaithai party tops polls but will need partners to form government

6:01 PM on Saturday, February 7

The Bhumjaithai party of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has taken a commanding lead in Thailand’s general election

FILE - This courtroom sketch depicts Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, during a Circuit Court hearing before Judge Claude V. Worrell Jr., Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Charlottesville, Va. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her

6:04 AM on Friday, February 6

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family

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