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The US on Monday urged the United Nations Security Council to maintain sanctions on North Korea until there is real progress toward scrapping Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.

Japan’s finance ministry admitted to doctoring key documents related to a favouritism scandal dogging Shinzo Abe, a ruling lawmaker said Monday, as a new poll suggested the affair is hitting the prime minister’s popularity.

 Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in Sunday to his second term as president of Chile, replacing socialist Michelle Bachelet in the office for the second time in eight years.

Donald Trump’s administration will step up aid to states that want to arm school employees, officials said Sunday under a plan to increase campus safety after the killing of 17 people in Florida.

Colombians cast their votes on Sunday to elect a new Congress with a resurgent right, bitterly opposed to a peace deal that allows leftist former rebels to participate, expected to poll strongly.

Cubans voted on Sunday to ratify a new National Assembly, a key step in a process leading to the elevation of a new president, the first in nearly 60 years from outside the Castro family.

A private Turkish plane with 11 people on board, all women, crashed in Iran on Sunday while taking the daughter of a top businessman and her friends back home to Turkey from a celebration in the United Arab Emirates.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday that a so-called hard Brexit should not hold any "terrors" and Britain would do "very well" operating under World Trade Organisation rules after leaving the EU.

 President Donald Trump agreed on Thursday to a historic first meeting with Kim Jong Un in a stunning development in America's high-stakes nuclear standoff with North Korea.

US President Donald Trump slapped steep trade tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum on Thursday, drawing sharp protests from allies at home and abroad as the contentious move raised the specter of a global trade war.

Eleven nations signed a slimmed-down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement on Thursday, moving to lower tariffs just as US President Donald Trump raised them after withdrawing from the deal.

Japan's economy is growing at a faster clip than initially estimated, the government said on Thursday, as the world's third-biggest economy notched up its longest period of expansion since the "bubble" days of the 1980s.

The UN labour agency warned on Wednesday that gradual progress toward parity between the sexes in the workplace was expected to soon grind to a halt and could even reverse.

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world's richest person, having snatched the top spot from Microsoft founder Bill Gates who slips to second place, according to Forbes magazine's annual billionaires list published on Tuesday.

Sierra Leone holds a general election on Wednesday to pick a new president in a climate of voter frustration with the two parties that have ruled since independence.

White House economic advisor Gary Cohn became the latest casualty of President Donald Trump's tumultuous administration,resigning in protest on Tuesday as Trump stepped up his threats of steep tariffs on steel, aluminum and European cars.