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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.

Newly installed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched his "transformation" of Mexico on Monday with a return to presidential press conferences and a new commission to investigate the internationally condemned disappearance of 43 students in 2014.

The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday at the request of France and Britain after they accused Iran of test-firing a medium-range missile at the weekend, diplomats said.

US President Donald Trump on Monday proposed talks with the leaders of China and Russia aimed at halting what he described as an "uncontrollable" arms race.

The World Bank on Monday unveiled $200 billion in climate action investment for 2021-25, adding this amounts to a doubling of its current five-year funding.

Israel's supreme court on Sunday extended a deadline for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to pass a law related to military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews, a measure that could potentially provoke early elections.

Malta on Sunday took in 11 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean for 10 days after being resuced by Spanish fishermen.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday surveyed the damage from a day of riots across Paris and led a crisis meeting that ended with a call for further talks with anti-government activists who have staged two weeks of protests.

Former US president George H.W. Bush, who helped steer America through the end of the Cold War, died Friday at age

94, his family announced.

G20 powers open two days of summit talks in crisis-hit Argentina on Friday after a stormy buildup dominated by US President Donald Trump's consensus-bucking crusade to realign world trade.

The French National Assembly voted on Friday in favour of a largely symbolic ban on parents smacking their children, a practice which though condemned by the UN still enjoys widespread support in the country.

A jailbreak in western Indonesia has left 90 inmates on the run after they escaped by breaking down fences when they were supposed to be at a prayer gathering, an official said Friday.

A train carrying South Korean engineers and officials crossed into the North on Friday to begin a landmark joint survey to reconnect railway tracks between the two Koreas.

Five people were killed and 32 injured after a coach on its way to Hong Kong's airport collided with a taxi on Friday, police said, with passengers reportedly thrown from the coach's windows on impact.

This week Istanbul will host two separate but related international conferences on mediation. One will be devoted to the state of play in the conflict map and capacity for mediation within the membership of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC). 

A Peruvian oil executive has warned of "catastrophe" after indigenous residents cut a major pipeline in a region of the Amazon, triggering the spill of 8,000 barrels of oil.

 Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking woman in the history of US politics, was re-elected on Wednesday to lead congressional Democrats, a major step on her march toward once again becoming speaker of the House of Representatives.

World leaders began arriving in Argentina ahead of a G20 summit dogged by increasingly strident warnings about the impact on the world economy of threatened US trade tariffs.