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Peru is investigating what killed some 10,000 Titicaca water frogs, a critically endangered species affectionately known as the "scrotum frog," in a river that is feared to be polluted, authorities said on Monday.

EU leaders meet without Britain in Bratislava on Friday to chart their post-Brexit future, focusing on defence cooperation and border security in a bid to heal deep divisions in particular over migration.

The German and French foreign ministers have made their first visit to Ukraine's war-torn east, saying they wanted to push a new bid for peace after a recent surge in violence.

Polish investigators reviewing what caused a 2010 airplane crash in Russia that killed then-president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others alleged on Thursday that the black boxes were tampered with in the original probe.

The United Nations urged Syria's government Thursday to allow immediate aid deliveries to hunger-stricken civilians after a fragile ceasefire was extended for 48 hours by Russia and the United States.

The UN Security Council has urged South Sudan's government to take immediate steps to allow a new regional force to deploy in Juba as it weighed imposing an arms embargo.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim effectively won a second five-year term after nominations to lead the global development bank closed on Wednesday with no other candidates proposed.

Typhoon Meranti made landfall in Xiang'an district of Xiamen City, east China's Fujian Province, at 3:05am on Thursday, with gales up to 48m per second.

It's one of Europe's most important wetland reserves, a World Heritage site full of lagoons, woodlands, pristine beaches and dunes, home to more than 4,000 species including the endangered Iberian lynx.

The International Monetary Fund has resumed its bailout of war-torn Ukraine, approving disbursement of US$1 billion from an aid package that had been held up in part on corruption concerns.

New York City investigators on Tuesday searched for a man suspected of setting fire to a traditionally dressed Muslim woman in a Midtown shopping area, police said.

Forces opposed to Libya's unity government seized a fourth oil port, completing their takeover of vital installations in the North African country's "oil crescent", a military source said.

 Plans to create new migrant centres across France notably to house thousands moved from Calais' notorious Jungle camp were condemned by right-wing critics on Tuesday as "irresponsible" and at risk of sparking a "civil war"

Hillary Clinton returns Thursday to the White House campaign fray after a few days at home recovering from pneumonia in a health scare that rocked her bid to become America's first woman president.

 The UN's Syria envoy has applauded a "significant drop" in violence through the first 24 hours of a fragile ceasefire but said security concerns meant aid convoys stayed on hold.

US and Cuban officials held talks in Washington on bilateral economic issues on Monday for the first time since the countries resumed normal diplomatic ties, diplomats said.

A US-and Russia-brokered ceasefire dubbed by Washington as perhaps the "last chance to save Syria" entered its first full day on Tuesday, amid scepticism over how long it would hold.

Libya's UN-backed unity government lost control on Monday of a third oil port seized by rival forces, raising fears of a major outbreak of fresh violence in the chaos-ridden country.