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 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was en route to Pyongyang on Friday to press Kim Jong Un for a more detailed commitment to denuclearisation following the North Korean leader's historic summit with President Donald Trump.

The search for dozens of missing Chinese tourists whose boat capsized off the Thai holiday island of Phuket resumed early Friday, with divers poised to scour the sunken hull, the local governor told reporters.

  At least 24 people were killed in a series of explosions Thursday at fireworks warehouses in the town of Tultepec in central Mexico, including rescue workers who died saving others' lives, officials said.

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday that a European offer of economic measures to counter the effects of the United States abandoning the nuclear deal does not go far enough, reported state news agency IRNA.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom suffered a major setback in his epic legal battle against online piracy charges on Thursday when New Zealand's Court of Appeal ruled he was eligible for extradition to the United States.

Wikipedia went down in at least three countries Wednesday in a protest at an upcoming European Parliament vote on a highly disputed law that could make online platforms legally liable for copyrighted material put on the web by users.

A heat wave in Quebec has killed at least 17 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, health officials said on Wednesday.

Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito resumed his official duties on Thursday after three days of treatment for insufficient blood supply to the brain, a palace spokesman said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel came under fire on Tuesday from EU partners after she agreed to push back migrants in a last-ditch deal to save her fragile government, a move that threatened to unleash a domino effect of European nations shutting refugees out.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged with corruption on Wednesday for allegedly accepting millions of dollars in bribe money, in a stunning fall from grace just months after his shock election defeat.

Some 70 people are dead or missing after a ferry ran aground off the coast of Indonesia, according to an updated official toll on Wednesday, the latest deadly maritime accident in the Southeast Asian archipelago.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested by anti-corruption investigators Tuesday, officials said, the latest dramatic development in a widening graft probe that has engulfed the ex-leader.

In a rare move, a Japanese women's university said on Tuesday it will begin in 2020 accepting transgender students who were born male but identify as female.

UN member countries on Sunday agreed to a peacekeeping budget of just under $6.7 billion, according to diplomatic sources.

A family of 11 found dead at their home in New Delhi had been observing "spiritual, mystical practices", police said Sunday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition was facing an uncertain future, as her hardline conservative interior minister Sunday offered his resignation after weeks of battling to change her mind on migrant policy.

A man went on a stabbing spree at a toddler’s birthday party at a low-income apartment complex for refugees in the US state of Idaho, wounding nine people including six children, police said Sunday.

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani said on Saturday an agreement has been made with Pakistan – in writing – on rooting out terrorism.