A defiant President Lukashenko will address Belarus' parliament on Wednesday as international pressure over the country's diversion of an airliner in order to arrest a dissident grows, with the UN Security Council set to meet behind closed doors later.

Lukashenko defiant as UN Security Council to meet over Belarus 

A French court on Friday upheld a police ban on a pro-Palestinian demonstration planned for Saturday in Paris, but the organisers said they were not cancelling the march.

French court bans pro-Palestine demo, organisers defiant 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha had seized power two years ago from the elected government when he was the army chief, promising to heal a bitter decade-long political divide

Thailand's junta leader says he will stay in power despite 'people's hatred' for him

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