French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has accused the media of "campaigning hysterically" in favour of Emmanuel Macron, her centrist rival for the presidency, as polls showed him enjoying a jump in support.

Iraqi forces have battled jihadists in west Mosul, aiming to build a floating bridge across the Tigris to establish an important supply route linked to the recaptured east bank.

Britain's House of Lords will Monday begin detailed scrutiny of the bill empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to kickstart Brexit, with the fate of EU nationals living in Britain likely to be on the agenda.

UN aid agencies and donor countries gathered in Oslo yesterday for a two-day meeting to raise emergency aid for millions of people threatened by famine in northeastern Nigeria, a Boko Haram stronghold.

France’s Emmanuel Macron won the support of a key centrist yesterday, hailing it as a turning point in his presidential campaign as an aide to his far-right rival Marine Le Pen was charged in a fake jobs scandal.

After nearly a year of occupying North Dakota prairie land to block the route of a controversial oil pipeline, many of the camp's holdouts finally marched out Wednesday to meet an evacuation deadline.

Pyongyang’s state media on Thursday blasted Malaysia for an “illegal and immoral” autopsy on a man believed be the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, breaking a 10-day silence on the airport assassination.

The first multilateral deal agreed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) came into force Wednesday, a step billed as a milestone for the body facing unprecedented threats from a hostile US administration. 

 The Trump administration issued on Tuesday tough new orders for a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigrants, putting nearly all of the country’s 11 million undocumented foreigners in its cross-hairs.