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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.

Researchers say a combination of new treatments can stop the world's deadliest form of skin cancer -- melanoma – in its tracks and halt its spread to other organs.

North Korea today warns it would inflict "the greatest pain and suffering" on the United States if Washington persists in pushing for harsher UN sanctions following Pyongyang's sixth nuclear test.

Norwegians cast their votes today in an election nail-biter that will decide whether "the world's happiest country" will be run by the outgoing rightwing coalition or the leftwing opposition for the next four years.

MPs hold their first vote today on a bill to end Britain's membership of the EU, which ministers say will avoid a "chaotic" Brexit but has been condemned as a unprecedented power-grab.

With the latest spate of violence the prospect of implementation of the Rakhine Advisory Commission led by the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appears remote and the possibility of a peaceful resolution of the Rohingya crisis may elude us once more.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vowed Thursday to block an independence referendum in Catalonia slated for October 1 which he branded an "intolerable act of disobedience".

Hurricane Irma on Thursday pounded the Caribbean, shredding homes and weather records and leaving at least 10 people dead before honing in on the United States where up to a million people were ordered to flee.

The United States is determined to have a vote at the UN Security Council on Monday on imposing tough new sanctions against North Korea despite resistance from China and Russia, UN diplomats said.

Huge crowds turned out in Togo's capital for the second day running to demand political reform, in the largest opposition protests against President Faure Gnassingbe's regime.

Syria's army accused Israeli warplanes of hitting one of its positions Thursday, killing two people in an attack that a monitor said targeted a site where the regime allegedly produces chemical weapons.

 The French part of the Caribbean island St Martin is "95 percent destroyed" after Hurricane Irma tore through the region, top local official Daniel Gibbs said late Wednesday.