Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday kick-starting a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Christmas since his election by denouncing the suffering of people of Gaza – taking shelter in tents from the “rain, wind and cold” – and by calling for the guns to ...

Nearly five years after the military seized power in a coup, Myanmar on Sunday began polling in a tightly controlled national ...

WASHINGTON — From religious leaders and politicians to activists and scientists, the world said goodbye to a number of ...

Critics charge that the election is designed to add a facade of legitimacy to military rule. Final results are expected to be ...

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed.

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy ...

Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten ...

Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an election framed by the ...

Myanmar's military rulers are holding a general election in phases starting Dec. 28 amid the country's civil war. The head of ...