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Nobel laureates Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad called on the world to protect victims of wartime sexual violence in their Peace Prize acceptance speeches on Monday, slamming indifference to the plight of women and children in conflict.

One thousand-plus asylum seekers being held by Australia in offshore detention centres are suing Canberra, alleging they have suffered torture and human rights abuses.

The electoral bloc of Armenia's acting prime minister Nikol Pashinyan won a landslide victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary elections, which were triggered by the reformist leader seeking to cement his political authority in the country.

President Emmanuel Macron will address the nation on the "yellow vest" crisis today and meet trade unionists and business leaders in search of a way to end the protests that have rocked France.

The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre museum and scores of shops on the Champs-Elysees are set to close as authorities warned on Thursday of fresh violence this weekend during protests which have ballooned into the biggest crisis of Emmanuel Macron's presidency.

Western donors said on Thursday they have pledged 2.4 billion euros (US$2.7 billion) in funding aimed at preventing terrorism and lawlessness along the southern rim of the Sahara.

Syria's President on Thursday announced a budget for 2019 of almost US$9 billion, of which around a third has been allocated to investment projects including in areas ravaged by the war.

The tiny EU country of Luxembourg is seeking to make travel free on its trains, trams and buses as part of efforts to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.

The French Government, under pressure from weeks of "yellow vest" protests over rising living costs, on Wednesday scrapped all planned fuel tax hikes for 2019 and appealed for calm.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide mainly from fossil fuel burning will rise 2.7 per cent in 2018, scientists said on Wednesday, signalling a world "completely off course" in the fight against climate change.

Rescue operations were underway on Thursday for six US marines missing after two American military aircraft crashed during a refuelling operation off the coast of Japan, the Japanese defence minister said.

The United States has reestablished a permanent diplomatic presence in Somalia nearly three decades after it closed its Mogadishu embassy in January 1991, the State Department said on Tuesday.

Ecuador's Vice President resigned on Tuesday over allegations by a former aide that she took kickbacks while serving as a lawmaker five years ago.

Fifteen migrants died and 10 others survived 11 days at sea after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Tuesday, citing the survivors.

The US government announced charges on Tuesday against four men it said laundered money and arranged tax avoidance schemes through the Panama firm at the center of the "Panama Papers" scandal.

Thousands of Israeli women protested against domestic violence in a nationwide strike on Tuesday, calling for more action and state funding to deal with the problem.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could still visit Seoul for the first time in the next few weeks, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday, describing the possible trip as a major boost in efforts to make the peninsula nuclear-free.

French lawmakers on Monday approved the creation of a national prosecutor's office to combat terror, a key justice reform to boost the country's response to the threat of attacks.