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Romanian lawmakers unanimously approved Monday a proposal to hold a referendum on corruption after mass protests forced the government to withdraw a decree that would have watered down anti-graft legislation.

A Taiwan bus taking elderly local tourists home from visiting seasonal cherry blossoms careered off a highway Monday night leaving 32 dead, in the island's worst road accident in decades.

At least 13 people were killed and 82 injured when an apparent Taliban suicide blast ripped through a protest in Lahore on Monday, Pakistani officials said, shattering the city's growing sense of security.

Japan's economy expanded 1.0 per cent in 2016 as a bump in exports and capital investment offset weak spending at home, data showed on Monday, although it was unlikely to erase concerns about Tokyo's faltering war on deflation.

Rescuers found no newly stranded whales on Monday on a notorious stretch of New Zealand's coastline where hundreds of marine mammals died after beaching themselves last week, conservation officials said.

The United States, Japan and South Korea on Sunday requested an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss North Korea's missile launch, Pyongyang's first test since US President Donald Trump took office.

The courts may have halted his travel ban but that hasn't caused President Donald Trump to shy away from planning newaction on immigration in the name of keeping Americans safe.

North Korea on Sunday staged its first ballistic missile test since Donald Trump took office, a move denounced by Japan's leader who won "100 per cent" backing from the new US President.

A US court on Thursday slapped down Donald Trump's effort to bar refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from US soil, dealing the new president and his controversial law-and-order agenda a major defeat.

The United Nations is likely to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Haiti, a top UN official said on Thursday, scaling back the 12-year mission blamed for a 2010 cholera epidemic.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Turkey later on Thursday for talks ahead of a whirlwind tour of five Arab countries, a UN statement said.

 More than 400 whales were stranded on a New Zealand beach on Friday, with hundreds already dead as volunteers raced to refloat the survivors, the Department of Conservation said.

An explosion at a nuclear power plant on France's northwest coast on Thursday caused minor injuries, but the authorities said there was no risk of radiation.

Talks on changes to Libya's unity government could yield results in the coming weeks, putting the north African country on a path to stability, the UN envoy said Wednesday.

New Zealand announced plans Thursday to erase historic convictions for engaging in gay sex, apologising to those branded criminals under old laws.

The Italian government on Wednesday unveiled a series of measures aimed at easing the crush of migrants pouring into the country, including a new push at integration.

The US Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as attorney general Wednesday, despite fierce debate about his civil rights record and Democratic concern over whether he serves as the nation's top law enforcement officer independent from President Donald Trump.

British MPs overwhelmingly backed a bill on Wednesday empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to start negotiations on leaving the European Union, bringing Brexit a significant step closer.