The United States has asked the UN Security Council to add six South Sudanese officials including the defence minister to a sanctions blacklist for fueling the country's war and blocking aid, according to a draft resolution seen by AFP on Sunday.
Conservative candidate Ivan Duque won the first round of Colombia's presidential election Sunday but fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff next month.
Italy could be forced to hold new elections after Giuseppe Conte gave up his bid to form a government following the collapse of talks with the president over including a eurosceptic economy minister in his cabinet.
US and North Korean officials met Sunday at a border truce village as preparations resumed for a high-stakes, high-drama summit that President Donald Trump suggests could help the North realise its "brilliant potential.
At least seven people were killed and around twenty others injured late Thursday in a car bomb attack in the centre of Benghazi in eastern Libya, a local security official told AFP.
"It could even be the 12th. We're talking to them now," Trump said at the White House. "They very much want to do it. We'd like to do it. We'll see what happens."
A top North Korean official said Friday his country is still willing to talk with the US, responding to President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to pull out of his planned summit with the North’s leader.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday cancelled a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing the latter’s "tremendous anger and open hostility."
The British government acknowledged on Wednesday it must pay its Brexit divorce bill before securing a new trade deal with the EU, despite previously insisting the cash could be a bargaining chip.
Italy's president on Wednesday approved little-known lawyer Giuseppe Conte's nomination to be prime minister of a government formed by far-right and anti-establishment parties.
Official campaigning began on Thursday for next month's Niigata gubernatorial election, with three contenders filing their candidacies for a race that could have a bearing on the possible restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant.
Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak arrived at the anti-graft agency on Thursday to be questioned for a second time this week over a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal following his shock election loss.
From air traffic controllers and street sweepers to librarians and teachers, French public-sector employees Tuesday joined rail workers in striking to protest reforms planned by President Emmanuel Macron, calling them an "attack" against state services.
North Korea accepted the list of South Korean journalists chosen to cover the dismantlement of the North's nuclear test site on Wednesday, allowing the media to travel to the North to observe the high-profile demolition event, the unification ministry said.
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologised to the European Parliament on Tuesday (May 22) for the "harm" caused by a huge breach of users' data and by a failure to crack down on fake news.
Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the top two US diplomats in the country Tuesday, charging it was the victim of a "political and financial lynching" after Washington tightened sanctions over Nicolas Maduro's re-election.
President Donald Trump attacked the probe into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia as a "political hit job" on Monday, as a part of a mounting White House effort to paint the probe as politically motivated.
A former government minister and economist has been named the new prime minister of Guinea by President Alpha Conde, according to a decree read out on state media.
Saudi Arabia should avoid turning Iraq into a "battleground in a cold war" with its regional rival Tehran, the International Crisis Group said on Tuesday.
One of the three women who survived Cuba's worst air crash in decades has died from her injuries, the health ministry said Monday, raising the toll to 111.
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