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Haiti needs nearly $300 million to provide urgent assistance for its most vulnerable inhabitants, including those affected by Hurricane Matthew last October, the government and aid officials in Port-au-Prince said on Monday.

Some 1,500 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean this weekend, an unusually high number for winter when crossings tend to slow because of difficult sea conditions, the Italian coastguard said on Sunday.

The suspected Louvre Museum attacker refused to talk to French police during two rounds of questioning on Sunday, a judicial source said.

President Donald Trump blasted the federal courts for a second day in a row on Sunday after his efforts to implement a travel ban were suspended and warned that the judiciary could be placing Americans in "peril."

 Israeli ministers on Sunday endorsed a draft bill to legalise export of cannabis for approved medical use, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's office said, without elaborating.

More than a 100 people have been killed in a series of avalanches triggered by days of heavy snowfall around Afghanistan, including 50 in one village, officials said Sunday, warning the death toll could rise still further.

At least 18 people were killed and another 18 were injured in a fire at a foot massage parlour in China, state media and police said.

French investigators believe the man who launched a machete attack outside the Louvre in Paris, before being shot and wounded by a soldier, is a 29-year-old Egyptian who entered the country on a tourist visa.

A US federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary, nationwide halt to President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, in the most severe legal blow to the controversial measure.

It’s official. A new world order, aka, the Trump Order, has been set in motion.

Colombia's ELN guerrillas have freed a hostage and the government released two rebel prisoners in exchange, clearing the way for peace talks to begin next week.

Embattled French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon has warned of a plot to "steal" his voters as a scandal over payments to his wife rumbled on, fuelled by new footage from an interview.

More than 1,750 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean within 24 hours, Italy's coast guard said on Thursday, as EU leaders prepared for a summit on stemming the flow of boats from North Africa to Europe.

Any nuclear attack in Korea Peninsula would trigger an "effective and overwhelming" response, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said in Seoul on Friday as he sought to reassure Washington's Asian allies following President Donald Trump's inauguration.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was on Thursday accused of "buying" his narrow election victory last year after he admitted personally gifting A$1.75 million (US$1.32 million) to the cash-strapped Liberal Party campaign.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey on Thursday for the first time since the failed July coup, seeking to keep a key partnership alive after a series of crises.

Oil companies underestimating the global market for electric vehicles could be caught unaware by weakened demand for petrol within a decade, analysts said on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump notched a victory on Wednesday with Rex Tillerson anointed as his secretary of state, but opposition Democrats girded for battle over other nominations, including his US Supreme Court pick.