A top North Korean official said Friday his country is still willing to talk with the US, responding to President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to pull out of his planned summit with the North’s leader.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday cancelled a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing the latter’s "tremendous anger and open hostility."

Official campaigning began on Thursday for next month's Niigata gubernatorial election, with three contenders filing their candidacies for a race that could have a bearing on the possible restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant.

The British government acknowledged on Wednesday it must pay its Brexit divorce bill before securing a new trade deal with the EU, despite previously insisting the cash could be a bargaining chip.

Italy's president on Wednesday approved little-known lawyer Giuseppe Conte's nomination to be prime minister of a government formed by far-right and anti-establishment parties.

Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak arrived at the anti-graft agency on Thursday to be questioned for a second time this week over a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal following his shock election loss.

From air traffic controllers and street sweepers to librarians and teachers, French public-sector employees Tuesday joined rail workers in striking to protest reforms planned by President Emmanuel Macron, calling them an "attack" against state services.

North Korea accepted the list of South Korean journalists chosen to cover the dismantlement of the North's nuclear test site on Wednesday, allowing the media to travel to the North to observe the high-profile demolition event, the unification ministry said.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologised to the European Parliament on Tuesday (May 22) for the "harm" caused by a huge breach of users' data and by a failure to crack down on fake news.