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Two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide on Friday, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal regime that presided over the  deaths of a quarter of the population.

Eight United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an operation against a rebel militia in eastern DR Congo, the UN Security Council said on Thursday.

The Saudi government exonerated the country’s powerful crown prince of involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Thursday as death-penalty charges were announced against five men and the US placed sanctions on 17 suspected of involvement.

Mexico's president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Wednesday he would maintain the country's controversial military efforts to fight organized crime and seek to reinforce them by creating a national guard.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is renewing his call for UN financing to shore up a regional force fighting an insurgency in the Sahel, despite opposition from the United States.

The toll in the deadliest wildfires in recent California history climbed to 59 on Wednesday as authorities released a list of 130 people still missing.

Groups aligned with the Islamic state have warned of further attacks on Australia and other Western nations in online posters featuring the deadly lone wolf stabbing rampage in Melbourne last week.

British Prime Minister Theresa May won the support of her bitterly divided cabinet on Wednesday for a draft divorce deal with the European Union that has put both Brexit and her leadership at stake.

With growing innovation in the financial sector and a move towards a cash-less society, there is a role for central banks to enter the world of digital currencies, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday.

The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip but there was no agreement on how to address the crisis, diplomats said.

Rapid population growth and poor infrastructure have put two out of three cities in Africa at "extreme risk" of the threats posed by climate change, according to a new analysis released on Wednesday.

Britain has agreed a draft Brexit deal with the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Tuesday, although she must still get it through her cabinet and the deeply divided parliament.

Renewed violence in Gaza threatened to thwart efforts to end months of unrest as Israeli air strikes killed three Palestinians and destroyed a Hamas TV building while a barrage of rocket fire from the enclave left one dead on Tuesday.

Demand for electricity is set to explode in the next two decades, which could be good news for the environment but a challenge for governments and power companies, the IEA said Tuesday.

North Korea is operating at least 13 undeclared bases to hide mobile, nuclear-capable missiles, a new study released on Monday has found, raising fresh doubts over US President Donald Trump's signature foreign policy initiative.

A China-backed bid to complete the world's largest trade deal -- without the United States -- was pushed back to next year after Asia-Pacific trade ministers failed to agree key terms at a Singapore summit.

Economic ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Thursday signed an agreement to facilitate cross-border e-commerce transactions within the region.

Pneumonia will kill nearly 11 million children under five by 2030, experts warned on Monday on a global day aimed at raising awareness of the biggest infectious killer of infants worldwide.