While protests in France have claimed most international attention, large demonstrations also rocked many European cities Saturday from Milan to Rome to Madrid, Lisbon and Tirana.

Right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro goes into Sunday’s runoff with a slight edge, having picked up 47% of ballots cast in the first round, while leftist Lula trailed with 45%.

More than 70,000 police officers fanned out in Paris and other cities while stores boarded up their facades after last week's riots. The Louvre closed for the day.

Long lines of voters formed outside polling stations across Serbia on Sunday for a parliamentary election that is seen as a showdown between the Balkan country's populist leader Aleksandar Vucic and a movement of university students who have led protests against him for almost two years.

Riyadh’s main airport reopened to global air traffic after a two-week shutdown, despite sustained Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia’s capital over the weekend.

Footage broadcast on Jordanian state television showed three gunmen firing shots at a Greek Orthodox church in the city of Karak on Friday.

A bus has collided with a truck on Kenya's main highway, killing at least 22 people, police said. The crash happened Sunday morning, three weeks after another accident on the same highway killed 17 people.

For two decades since leaving Israel for Canada, Yael Natra said, she didn’t consider returning to vote in her home country’s elections. She felt it wasn’t right to cast a ballot in a place she no longer lived.