A special tribunal sentenced Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and one of her close aides to death on charges of crimes against humanity for her crackdown on a student uprising last year that killed hundreds of people and led to the toppling of her 15-year rule.

The International Crimes Tribunal based in Dhaka, the capital, sentenced Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan to death for their involvement in the use of deadly force against protesters.

The death toll from a Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Balakliya has risen to three, the city military administration chief said on Monday.

"According to preliminary information, three people were killed as a result of the night missile strike on the city of Balakliya," Vitali Karabanov said in a post on Telegram, adding that "another 10 people were wounded".

President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky Monday signed a letter of intent for Kyiv to acquire up to 100 Rafale fighter jets and other air defense hardware from French companies, the French presidency said.

In a boost for Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion, the accord sets out possible future contracts for the acquisition by Ukraine of 100 Rafale fighter jets "with their associated weapons" as well as the new generation SAMP-T air defense system under development, radar systems and drones.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed that they had seized an oil tanker in the Gulf as it sailed away from a UAE port, a day after security companies determined they were likely responsible.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has renewed his plea for more air-defense systems a day after Russian strikes on Kyiv killed seven people.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has slammed new joint military exercises by the United States and its ally Trinidad and Tobago as "irresponsible," with Washington increasing its armed presence in the Caribbean.

U.S. President Donald Trump told law enforcement chiefs Friday to investigate links between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Bill Clinton, seeking to deflect growing questions about his own ties to the late alleged sex trafficker.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he has "sort of" made up his mind about Venezuela, as his escalating military deployment in Latin America has ignited concerns about a wider regional conflict.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling coalition is headed to win a key state election in a vote seen as a crucial test of Modi's popularity in one of the country's poorest yet most politically influential states.

Partial results Friday from the Election Commission of India, the country's election watchdog, showed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, or NDA, expected to take 208 seats of the 243-member legislature in the eastern state of Bihar.

Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in months in the strategic waterway.

Iran did not immediately acknowledge the seizure, though it comes as Tehran has been increasingly warning it can strike back after facing a 12-day war in June with Israel that saw the U.S. strike Iranian nuclear sites.