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Tensions have mounted between Nigerian security forces and pro-Biafra supporters, after renewed protests calling for independence and clashes targeting police.

 New York has revealed an initiative that would mandate thousands of buildings throughout the city become more energy efficient, the latest step in the city's push to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

Some 30 environment ministers will push forward on the Paris climate accord at a meeting on Saturday requested by Canada, China and the European Union.

Global astronomers bid farewell on Friday to NASA's famed Cassini spacecraft, which launched 20 years ago to circle Saturn and transformed the way we think about life elsewhere in the solar system.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan and into the Pacific on Friday, responding to new UN sanctions with what appeared to be its furthest-ever missile flight amid high tensions over its nuclear programmes.

More than 15,000 people were evacuated on Wednesday from several shopping centres, universities and train stations in Moscow after a series of bomb threats, Russian media reported. 

British Prime Minister Theresa May will travel to Italy next week to make a major speech on Brexit, Downing Street said on Wednesday.

South Korea is mulling providing US$8 million in aid to North Korea via two UN agencies, a Unification Ministry official said on Thursday.

The European Parliament has warned against easing health controls imposed on food products imported from the Fukushima region in Japan in the wake of the nuclear disaster of 2011.

Insolvent Air Berlin cancelled dozens more flights on Wednesday as pilots again called in sick, despite warnings from the airline that the wildcat action could jeopardise rescue talks.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday he is hoping for a constructive message from US President Donald Trump when he makes his first address to world leaders at the United Nations next week.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will on Wednesday unfurl plans to deepen EU integration after Brexit, sailing with a change in the wind a year after Britain's shock vote to leave.

Residents of the Florida Keys ravaged by Hurricane Irma, which has left at least 12 dead statewide, discovered scenes of desolation as they returned home on Tuesday amid a massive operation to restore electricity to millions of people still without power in three southern US states.

President Trần Đại Quang yesterday cabled a message of condolence to Malaysian King Sultan Muhammad V over the death of Sultan of Kedah State and former King of Malaysia Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah.

More than half the world's refugee children – some 3.5 million altogether – do not attend school, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday, urging greater and steadier funding for their education.

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi strengthened his grip on power late Monday when parliament approved a cabinet reshuffle ahead of key elections.

Millions of Florida residents were without power and extensive damage was reported in the Florida Keys but most of the Sunshine State appeared Monday to have dodged forecasts of catastrophic damage from Hurricane Irma.

The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea, slapping a ban on textile exports and restricting shipments of oil products to punish Pyongyang for its sixth and largest nuclear test.