A court in Thailand has ordered the release of seven students who were arrested last month for distributing leaflets urging people to vote against a proposed new constitution in a referendum next month.
New Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has named five active and retired police generals as protectors of drug syndicates, and sacked those still in service.
The Philippines' new president says Manila is ready to talk to China, not go to war, if an arbitration tribunal rules in its favor in a case it brought against Beijing's claims in the South China Sea.
The lawyer for an Egyptian hijacker fighting his extradition has been given 17 days by a Cypriot court to seek out a human rights expert who could support Seif Eddin Mustafa's argument that being sent back could put his life at risk.
French unions are staging what's likely to be their last show of force against a labor bill that has divided the nation and prompted the worst social unrest in years.
Thailand's Justice Ministry says it has no plan to execute rapists who murder their victims, saying such a harsh penalty would provoke more rapists to kill.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, currently in Kenya, will hold bilateral talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta on counter-terrorism, energy and agriculture, amid tight security.
Aviation officials in Swiss and Israel say a bomb threat on board an El Al flight bound from New York to Tel Aviv led France and Switzerland to deploy military jets as escorts, though the plane was continuing on its journey.
An Israeli official has confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized construction of hundreds of new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded his Cabinet by inducting 19 new ministers, several of them from lower castes, as he completed two years in office.
Prosecutors have filed charges against three German men accused of involvement in illegally making and selling firearms that were sold on Darknet sites.
Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is beginning talks with party leaders, seeking to round up enough support to form a government following Spain's second inconclusive election.
Iraqi authorities say more dead bodies have been recovered from the site of the massive weekend suicide bombing in central Baghdad, bringing the death toll to 175.
The British pound is down sharply, as are shares in U.K. real estate companies, amid concerns that the exit from the European Union will hurt property prices.
China's defense ministry has confirmed that Chinese and Japanese fighter jets had a confrontation over disputed waters in the East China Sea last month, and says the Chinese jets were only carrying out a routine patrol of the space.
