Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa averted a run-off vote by securing just over 50 percent votes while opposition leader Nelson Chamisa bagged 44.3 percent of the total 4.8m votes cast.

The U.N. and former colonial power the U.K. have called on Zimbabwe to exercise restraint in dealing with protesters who took to the streets against the ruling Zanu-PF party over alleged vote-rigging in Monday’s elections.

Incomplete official results from Zimbabwe’s election show that the country’s ruling Zanu-PF party is headed for a comfortable majority in the parliament amid claims of vote-rigging by the opposition MDC Alliance.

Brazil’s presidential election took a bloody turn on Friday after far-right presidential hopeful, Jair Bolsonaro, sustained “grave” wounds in a knife attack during a campaign rally in the south-east state of Minas Gerais.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said the country should set its fuel prices at par with the international levels to combat rampant smuggling, which inflicts a loss of about $18 billion on the national exchequer annually.

Following a marathon debate spanning over 15 hours, Argentina’s Senate voted 38 to 31 against a bill that seeks to legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy in the country dominated by Roman Catholics.

The Lion Air passenger plane, which crashed into the sea off Jakarta with 189 people on board on Sunday, was hit by technical snag during its flight from Bali to the Indonesian capital a day before the tragic accident.

The brisk peace process on the Korean Peninsula entered “a new, higher stage” on Monday as the two Koreas agreed to begin reconnecting their rail and road links that have been cut since the 1950-53 Korean War.

The death toll from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia reached 1200 on Tuesday after 34 bodies were recovered from the debris of a church buried by a mudslide in the city of Palu.

The far-right Sweden Democrats, riding on populist, anti-immigrant wave, have emerged as the kingmaker after the country’s two mainstream blocs, tied for the top spot, fell well short of the majority.

Playing down Chancellor Philip Hammond’s bleak Treasury forecasts in case of a no-deal Brexit, British PM Theresa May said the U.K.’s crashing out of the E.U. without a deal “wouldn’t be the end of the world.”

Rescuers toiled hard overnight to dig out mountains of debris, extracting victims and locating the survivors after the Morandi bridge in Italy’s Genoa collapsed on Tuesday, leaving at least 37 people dead.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is at the helm of the kingdom, could have been involved in the gruesome killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told MPs from his ruling party that the “savage” killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned days in advance before he was murdered in Istanbul.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir admitted that the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in a “rogue operation,” carried out without the knowledge of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

A Lion Air Boeing 737 passenger plane, carrying 189 people to Pangkal Pinang, an Indonesian tin-mining region, plunged into the sea within minutes after it took off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

Rattled by a series of suspected explosives that were mailed to high-profile American personalities, the FBI on Thursday searched a mail facility in Miami to track down the sender of these packages.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has a history of veering off the civil discourse in reprimanding his political rivals, ironically attacked the media “hostility” after suspected bombs were mailed to high-profile U.S. figures.