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An overhaul of global trade is urgently needed, 13 trade ministers representing all regions of the world said on Thursday, following two days of talks in Ottawa aimed at setting objectives to reform the troubled system. The group made a veiled appeal to the United States to stop blocking appointments to WTO dispute resolution panels, warning the system will otherwise collapse soon.

Australia is setting up a billion-dollar fund to "future proof" the country against droughts, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, as farmers struggle with a 'big dry' forecast set to continue for months.

The Pentagon is expected to deploy about 800 troops to the US-Mexico border, two US officials said on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the military would help tackle a "national emergency" and called on a caravan of migrants to turn around.

Flash floods in Jordan swept away a school bus on Thursday, killing at least 17 people, mostly pupils, emergency services said, as Israel sent forces to help with rescue operations.

The man who negotiated FARC's peace agreement with the Colombian government emerged from hiding on Wednesday to comply with a demand that former guerrilla leaders reaffirm their commitment to the 2016 peace agreement that ended decades of conflict.

Pipe bombs were sent on Wednesday to Barack Obama, top Democrats and CNN, hate figures for Donald Trump supporters, while the US president tempered calls for unity by attacking the media for its "endless hostility."

Norway hosts NATO's biggest exercises since the end of the Cold War from Thursday, to remind Russia the Alliance stands united despite seeds of doubt planted by US President Donald Trump.

The World Economic Forum has released the latest version of its Global Competitiveness Index which saw differing fortunes for longstanding Asian giants. 

Canada will host trade officials from the European Union, Japan and others for two-day talks starting on Wednesday aimed at shaping long-delayed reforms to the global trading system that have sparked tensions among major economies.

 The United Nations warned on Tuesday that Yemen was on the verge of widespread famine.

The United States said on Tuesday it was revoking visas of Saudis involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as President Donald Trump ridiculed the kingdom's response as "one of the worst cover-ups" in history.

US National Security Advisor John Bolton on Tuesday praised "productive" talks with President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials despite an earlier announcement by Washington that it would pull out of a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty.

Thousands of Honduran migrants heading to the United States -- a caravan President Donald Trump has called an "assault on our country" -- stopped to rest on Tuesday after walking for two days into Mexican territory.

China's President Xi Jinping officially opened the world's longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States is ready to build up its nuclear arsenal after announcing it is abandoning a Cold War-era nuclear treaty, as Russia warned the withdrawal could cripple global security.

A new treatment for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure more than 90 percent of sufferers, according to a trial hailed Monday as a "game changer" in the fight against the global killer.

Thirty-five Nobel and top mathematics prize winners have warned British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker that scientific research will suffer a serious setback without a good Brexit deal.

Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon since 1982, won a landslide victory on Monday in a controversial presidential election as the government tightened security and gunfire erupted in the country's volatile English-speaking regions.