Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for a double suicide bombing that killed 43 and wounded more than 239 in a residential suburb in southern Beirut on Thursday.
Fourteen asylum seekers, including seven children, are dead after their boat sank while trying to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece on Wednesday.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD), has predicted a landslide victory for her party following the country’s general election on the weekend.
More countries have curbed flights to Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh as suspicion firms that a bomb was responsible for bringing down a Russian airliner on Saturday.