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Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday a second Canadian was being questioned by China, after Beijing earlier this week notified Ottawa it had detained a former Canadian diplomat. 

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sought to rescue deeply troubled climate talks in Poland on Wednesday, warning the battle against global warming is a "matter of life and death today."

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sent a bill to Congress Wednesday to revoke a controversial education reform launched by his predecessor that sparked violent protests by teachers.

South and North Korea held working-level talks on Thursday to set up a groundbreaking ceremony for their project to modernise North Korean railways and roads and connect them to the South.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday survived a confidence vote by her own MPs but lost the support of one third of her colleagues, signalling the battle she still faces to get her Brexit deal through parliament.

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres is expected to attend peace talks between Yemen’s warring sides in Sweden on Thursday.

A massive fireworks explosion during a procession at a Mexican church killed eight people today and left some 50 wounded, authorities said.

An angry Donald Trump told Democratic leaders at the White House today that he will shut down the US government because they refuse to approve billions of dollars in funding for his controversial Mexico border wall.

A gunman killed at least three people and wounded a dozen others at the famed Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday before fleeing the scene, authorities said.

Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May met sympathy but a firm rebuff on a lightning tour of European capitals on Tuesday, with EU leaders ruling out any renegotiation of the Brexit deal.

A Canadian judge granted bail Tuesday to a top Huawei executive after her arrest on a US warrant, in a case that has frayed relations between the North American allies and China.

Morocco and the UN organise, on 10-11 December, an intergovernmental Conference on migration which adopted the Global Compact for Migration after having been negotiated in New-York.

A cross-border power grid system that would connect South Korea with China, Russia and Japan is expected cost over 7 trillion won (US$6.2 billion) to build, a state-run utility firm said today.

Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (local time) announced a series of financial measures seeking to defuse the "yellow vest" revolt that has triggered violent protests in cities across the country.

Top Chinese and US negotiators held telephone talks today to exchange views on the timetable of trade talks, the Chinese commerce ministry said.

British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Germany's Angela Merkel Tuesday as she works to salvage her Brexit deal, the day after delaying a parliamentary vote on it to avoid a crushing defeat.

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.