Los Angeles police said on Tuesday they are investigating sexual misconduct allegations made by 52 former patients of a university gynecologist accused of sexually abusing thousands of students over decades.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vowed Tuesday that the US would keep confronting China over its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where Beijing has established a significant military presence on contested islands.

Saudi Arabia is preparing to outlaw sexual harassment, officials said Tuesday, less than a month before the conservative kingdom lifts its decades-long ban on women driving.

Kuwait on Tuesday circulated a watered-down draft UN Security Council resolution on setting up an international protection mission for the Palestinians in a bid to win European support in a vote expected this week, diplomats said.

A gunman on a police watchlist for contacts with Islamist extremists launched a brazen suspected terror attack in Belgium, shooting dead two female police officers with their own weapons before killing a bystander.

The European Union will deploy observers to Zimbabwe's general election expected in July, the first time in 16 years the bloc will monitor polls in the southern African country.

 Cuba will seek to amend its constitution to further open up the economy but without modifying the "irrevocable character of socialism," authorities there said on Monday.

President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Monday that it is "imperative" to completely dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programme, the White House said.

Brazil's President Michel Temer, under pressure from a week-long national truckers' strike which led to fuel and food shortages, ceded to protesters' demands Sunday and slashed the cost of diesel.