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A bomb blast tore through a church near Cairo’s Coptic cathedral during a service yesterday, killing 23 people in the deadliest attack in recent memory on Egypt’s Christian minority.

President-elect Donald Trump questioned in an interview broadcast yesterday whether the United States should continue its "one China policy" unless Beijing makes concessions on trade and other issues, threatening to upend decades of Sino-American diplomacy.

A decade-long surge of the potent greenhouse gas methane threatens to make the fight against global warming even harder, top researchers warned today.

Macedonia’s ruling conservative party and the opposition Social Democrats both claimed victory in snap elections held yesterday in the hope of solving a two-year long deep political crisis.

Twenty-nine people, mainly police, were killed and 166 wounded in Istanbul on Saturday when twin bombings struck the heart of the city close to the stadium of top flight football giants Besiktas after a major game.

A church roof has collapsed in southeastern Nigeria causing "many deaths and injury" the country's president said on Saturday, with state media reporting that up to 200 people could have been killed.

A quarter of a century after the summit in the Dutch town of Maastricht that gave birth to the euro, the EU will mark the anniversary on Friday with little fanfare as it battles a wave of crises.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced an act of attempted political regicide on Friday as lawmakers gathered to vote on a motion calling for her impeachment.

Syria's army has halted its attacks in Aleppo to allow trapped civilians to be evacuated, Russia's foreign minister said, after advancing forces cornered rebels in the city.

A major 7.7-magnitude quake struck on Friday off the Solomon Islands triggering severe shaking and a tsunami warning, but there were no reports of any serious damage, officials said.

Germany has pledged to spend 150 million euros (US$189 million) helping migrants return home, the minister of development said in an interview published on Friday.

Aftershocks rattled the survivors of a devastating Indonesia earthquake that killed nearly 100 people, as officials urgently appealed on Thursday for medicine and doctors to treat the hundreds injured.

US Secretary of State John Kerry held fresh talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Germany on Wednesday but no breakthrough emerged on efforts to halt the fighting in the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo.

A senior Cuban diplomat said on Wednesday that she hopes President-elect Donald Trump will take into account advances in US-Cuban relations and can even improve on them when he takes office.

New Zealand's central bank governor painted a glowing picture of the economy on Thursday just days after Prime Minister John Key resigned, but warned of uncertainties ahead.

Matteo Renzi bowed out as Italian prime minister with a combination of jokes, regrets and a strong hint that he wants to lead his party into an early election battle.

At least 52 people were killed and scores injured when a strong earthquake struck western Indonesia on Wednesday and flattened hundreds of homes and mosques, with officials warning the death toll would likely rise.

Polar bear numbers could drop a third by mid-century, according to the first systematic assessment, released on Wednesday, of how dwindling Arctic sea ice affects the world's largest bear.