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Authorities in Ukraine and Russia say their emergency alert mobile apps were targeted by cyberattacks late Sunday, with users in Ukraine receiving false warnings of dangerously high radiation levels in the capital, Kyiv.

Leaders representing nearly a third of the world's population are meeting on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua this week to strengthen ties during a time of global political upheaval.

Japan on Monday launched a new national agency focused on disaster management to improve the country's preparedness if there's a megaquake along the Pacific coast or in Tokyo, or an eruption of Mount Fuji.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever handed in his resignation on Monday as a long-simmering budget crisis boiled over, but King Philippe has not yet decided whether to accept it.

Buddhist masters from various schools and denominations and about 200,000 people from around the world congregated in Gelephu, Bhutan, on Sunday to witness volunteers erect 108 stupas in a single day.

Acting President Iliana Yotova won the runoff election to become Bulgaria's first elected female head of state and said she will work for national consensus by bridging political rifts.

Qatari mediators continue to ferry peace proposals between Washington and Tehran, officials from Iran and the U.S. said Sunday, as fears of an escalation in the eight-month-old war loom ahead of this week's midterm elections.

Exit polls in Bulgaria suggest that incumbent President Iliana Yotova is the apparent winner in the country's presidential runoff. Partial official results are expected later Sunday.

Israeli police on Sunday released two of three suspects in a case of alleged voter bribery, weakening efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party to discredit last week's parliamentary election.

A week after a student movement toppled Serbia's strongman Aleksandar Vucic in an election, thousands of students and their supporters on Sunday marked two years since a deadly train station disaster that gave birth to their anti-corruption campaign.