Australian police have arrested the country's most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, on allegations of war crimes. The Australian Federal Police said a man, identified by local news outlets as Roberts-Smith, was charged over the killing of several unarmed civilians while on deployment in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012.
Vietnam's Communist Party's Secretary General To Lam was unanimously elected by parliament as the country's president for a five-year term, making him the most powerful Vietnamese leader in decades.
The astronauts on the Artemis II mission made history on Monday, reaching the farthest distance in space of any human, after surpassing the previous record set by the Apollo 13 mission in April 1970.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached a deal with the administration of Donald Trump to join its third-country program, which would allow them to receive migrant deportees from the US. The Congolese Ministry of Communications said in a statement that deportees will begin arriving this month.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Monday said it now considers the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be his political successor. Kim's heir apparent, thought to be named Kim Ju Ae, has accompanied her father on several official occasions in appearances thought to be cementing her position.
Myanmar's new parliament elected Min Aung Hlaing as president on April 3, formalizing the junta chief's grip on power under the veneer of civilian rule.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister Kim Yo Jong on Monday said regret expressed by Seoul over a January drone incursion into the North as wise behaviour. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung had earlier expressed regret to Pyongyang after a drone entered North Korea earlier this year, calling the act "irresponsible." What did Kim Yo Jong say?
The prolonged airstrikes against military and civilian targets in Iran are putting the country's fragile health care system under increasing pressure, according to multiple reports. Iranian officials claim that many pharmaceutical factories and medical facilities have been hit since the US and Israel launched their bombing campaign in late February.