If British Prime Minister Boris Johnson fails to win an absolute majority in parliament on Thursday, smaller parties will find themselves holding the trump cards in negotiations to form an alliance.
At least 25 militants have been confirmed killed as mop-up operations have been continuing in Afghanistan's eastern Wardak province, Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said Monday.
The Samoan government confirmed on Monday two more deaths in the island nation's measles epidemic, bringing the death toll to 70 since the outbreak in mid-October.
The plane carrying the body of a Japanese doctor and humanitarian worker who was shot dead in Afghanistan arrived at his hometown Fukuoka in southern Japan on Monday morning.