Opinion

Portugal's socialist candidate won the first round of the presidential election and will face the far-right candidate in the second round, near-complete results showed Sunday.

South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol has been handed five years in jail, the first of what will likely be several sentences over his declaration of martial law in late 2024.

Pressure on the estimated 6.5 million foreign citizens in Russia -- mostly labour migrants from Central Asia who work in low-skilled jobs and send wages to family back home -- is ramping up from all sides.

During that period, Mother Marie-Agnes and her allies oversaw a system that spied on, bullied, physically abused and even stole money from the women who joined the order, according to its findings published Thursday.

The nation of 100 million people is both a repressive one-party state and a regional economic bright spot, with the party seeking to deliver rapid expansion to underpin its claim to legitimacy.