Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos reshuffled his cabinet on Monday in what he said was preparation for a looming peace deal to end a half-century conflict with armed rebels.

Australian police have charged a 16-year-old boy with planning a terrorism act allegedly linked to Monday's Anzac Day commemorations which honour soldiers who fought and died for the country.

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders turned out yesterday for the 100th ANZAC Day dawn services honouring their war dead on the anniversary of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign in World War I.

Yemeni troops backed by Arab coalition air strikes killed more than 800 members of al-Qaeda in an attack on a southeastern provincial capital held by the group for the past year, the coalition said yesterday.

Barack Obama will set out his vision of relations with Europe with a speech in the northern German city of Hanover yesterday, trying to frame a relationship that has been less than easy throughout his presidency.

Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic claimed victory in Sunday's general election after projections showed him winning by a landslide.

The EU has proposed offering visa-free travel in Europe to Ukrainians, delivering on a key pledge to the pro-Western government in Kiev

Recession-wracked Venezuela is to ration electricity in 10 of its most populous and industrialised states, including metropolitan Caracas, the government said on Wednesday.

The UN began evacuating hundreds of people from besieged Syrian towns in a rare sign of humanitarian progress, as the US Air Force for the first time deployed a B-52 bomber against the Islamic State group.