Voters in Okinawa are casting ballots in a referendum on the ongoing land reclamation work to relocate a US military base within the southwestern Japanese prefecture.
Venezuela's political opposition has initiated efforts to move humanitarian aid into the South American country from its neighbors -- Colombia and Brazil.
People who were sexually abused as children by clergy members of the Catholic Church have rallied near the Vatican, where church leaders are discussing ways to prevent clerical sex abuse. The protestors demanded that perpetrators be held accountable.
Three British Cabinet ministers are calling for the country to delay its exit from the European Union if no deal is agreed in Parliament in the next few days.
North Korea has asked UN aid agencies for help to address a looming food crisis after figures forecast a sharp drop in crop production for this year, a UN spokesman said Thursday.
President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of Venezuela's border with Brazil on Thursday in an increasingly fraught power struggle with Juan Guaido, the opposition leader spearheading efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country despite a military blockade.
