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Two huge US strategic bombers flew over South Korea on Tuesday in a show of force against North Korea following Pyongyang's fifth and largest-ever nuclear test.

A ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia and the United States is due to begin at sundown on Monday, after scores of civilians were killed in a bloody weekend of strikes.

Croatia’s main conservative party looked set for victory in the snap election, according to preliminary results, but will likely be forced into another coalition furthering political uncertainty in the EU's newest member.

 Libya’s internationally backed government has urged its forces to act after two oil terminals fell to rival troops, raising fears of further violence in a country already gripped by turmoil.

Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia and was dehydrated when she suddenly left a 9/11 memorial ceremony, her doctor said, sparking fresh speculation about the Democratic presidential candidate's health barely eight weeks from Election Day.

At least 13 people were killed and 203 injured in northwest Tanzania when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit the country on Saturday, local authorities said.

A barrage of airstrikes on rebel-held areas in Syria have killed scores of people, just hours after the government in Damascus approved a US-Russian plan to halt fighting in the country's suppurating civil war.

British Prime Minister Theresa May and EU president Donald Tusk on Thursday held their first formal bilateral meeting on the country's exit from the bloc, with the UK leader reaffirming she will not launch Brexit talks this year.

North Korea appears to have conducted a fifth nuclear test on Friday, authorities in Japan and South Korea said, after monitors detected a 5.3-magnitude "artificial earthquake" near its main nuclear site.

Greece sent back to Turkey five failed asylum-seekers on Thursday, in line with an EU deal with Ankara aimed at stemming the flow of migrants to Europe, the Greek interior ministry said.

French police investigating the discovery a car containing six gas cylinders in Paris, on Thursday arrested three female suspects said to have been planning new acts of violence, shooting one of them in the process.

Around 50 people were stuck in cable cars high above the glaciers of Mont Blanc in the French Alps late Thursday after a helicopter rescue operation was suspended as night fell, officials said.

US space agency NASA is poised on Thursday to launch its groundbreaking first mission to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples that could shed light on the dawn of the solar system.

At least 38 people have been killed and more than 92,000 left homeless since June in disastrous floods in Niger, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Global stakeholders in the construction industry promised to put into action leading green building solutions to mitigate climate change at an international conference that opened in Singapore yesterday.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday issued a strong condemnation of North Korea's latest missile tests and threatened to take "further significant measures" against Pyongyang.

Almost 50 million children throughout the world are "uprooted," forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children's program said on Wednesday.

US Senate Democrats blocked a $1.1 billion bill to combat the Zika virus for a third time on Tuesday after Republicans inserted provisions that would end funding for a major abortion provider.