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More than two million Muslims from around the world will start the hajj pilgrimage at Islam’s holiest sites on Wednesday, a religious duty and an epic multi-stage journey.

North Korea leader Kim Jong-un has promised more missile flights over Japan, insisting his nation's provocative launch was a mere "curtain-raiser", in the face of UN condemnation and US warnings of severe repercussions.

President Donald Trump toured the Harvey disaster zone in Texas on Tuesday as he sought to project an image of leadership in America's first big natural disaster since he took office, as the battered US Gulf Coast girded for another hit from the huge storm.

Work on the Russian-financed expansion of a Hungarian nuclear plant will begin in January, Hungary's foreign minister said on Monday after talks in Budapest between Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A record outbreak of Hepatitis A has killed 14 people and put scores in hospital in San Diego, hitting mostly homeless and patients using intravenous drugs.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he and US President Donald Trump agreed to hike pressure on North Korea after it launched a ballistic missile over Japan, in Pyongyang's most serious provocation in years.

Mexican fishing authorities have boycotted the effort to save the critically endangered vaquita marina porpoise, environmentalists said on Monday, calling them "accomplices" in the near-extinction of the world's smallest porpoise.

Rescue teams in boats, trucks and helicopters scrambled on Monday to reach hundreds of Texans marooned on flooded streets in and around the city of Houston before monster storm Harvey returns.

The Colombian government and the country's last active rebel force, the ELN, said on Monday they hope to agree on a ceasefire before Pope Francis's visit to the nation next week.

Leaders from seven African and European countries meet in Paris on Monday for a mini-summit to discuss how to ease the EU's migrant crisis.

Britain and the EU kick off a third round of Brexit talks Monday, with London impatient to agree its future relationship with the bloc while Brussels insists the divorce settlement comes first.

North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles Saturday, the US military said, following weeks of heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.

A knife-wielding man was shot dead on Friday after wounding a soldier in the centre of Brussels, in what Belgian authorities called a "terrorist attack".

Two Brazilian ferry wrecks in as many days left at least 39 people dead, authorities said on Thursday, as rescuers searched for several more who were still missing.

 Donald Trump's team must commit to a two-state solution and oppose Israeli settlement construction before the US president's peace push can move forward, Palestinian officials said on Wednesday.

At least 10 people have been confirmed dead and dozens were feared missing in northern Brazil after a boat sank overnight in the Amazon basin, the local government said on Wednesday.

Dutch police are investigating possible terror links after arresting a Spaniard driving a van containing gas canisters close to a rock concert which was abruptly cancelled over fears of an attack.