US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that Saudi leaders have promised to ensure accountability over missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, even as they denied any responsibility for his disappearance.

South Korea’s top government and political figures, corporate executives and diplomats from Southeast Asia gathered at The Korea Herald’s inaugural business forum on Tuesday, an event that aimed to increase mutual understanding and co-operation and reinforce economic ties between the two sides.

Russian will quit the Council of Europe voluntarily if its opponents in the association insist on its expulsion, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

British and European leaders insisted on Monday they could still reach a Brexit deal despite the latest failed round of divorce talks, but the EU warned a no-deal scenario was "more likely than ever before".

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says prospects for a Cyprus settlement remain alive, a year after a failed peace effort, and has instructed an envoy to press on with efforts to kick-start talks.

Australia is considering moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday, following the lead of US President Donald Trump.

The two Koreas and the United Nations Command (UNC) will launch trilateral consultations on Tuesday on disarming the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the heavily fortified border area, Seoul's defence ministry announced.

The Moroccan navy on Monday rescued 38 migrants and recovered one body from a boat that ran into trouble off the kingdom's coast, the official MAP news agency reported.

An economist at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations urges governments to support smallholder farmers in overcoming a range of constraints in production, marketing, exports and in the overall value chain to ensure that they make use of these market opportunities and strengthen their competitiveness in organic production.