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German police on Wednesday stepped up their hunt for the driver of a truck that rampaged through a Berlin Christmas market, in a deadly assault claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday said she was planning to negotiate both Brexit and Britain's future relationship with the EU by 2019 but a transition period may be required after that.

A massive explosion gutted Mexico's biggest fireworks market on Tuesday, killing at least 29 people and injuring 70, authorities said.

South Korea's ruling conservative party on Wednesday faced an imminent split over the impeachment of scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye, a development that would seriously undermine its presidential election chances.

Thousands of Venezuelans crossed into Colombia on Tuesday to buy food and medicine after their government partially reopened the border following a messy crackdown on what it called currency hoarders.

Missing Malaysia flight MH370 is almost certainly not in the current search zone in the remote Indian Ocean but could be further north, officials said on Tuesday, nearly three years after the hunt began.

Australia on Tuesday signed a mega deal to purchase a fleet of next-generation submarines from France, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hailing the vessels' "cutting-edge technology".

The main aim of assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey is the desire to undermine the process of normalisation of Russian-Turkish relations and to prevent effective fight of the two countries against terrorism in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with NTV channel.

A French court on Monday found IMF head Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence over a massive state payout to a tycoon when she was French finance minister, but she will continue to lead the fund.

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake followed by 37 aftershocks rattled Ecuador's Pacific coast before dawn on Monday, causing three deaths and heavy damage to hotels and homes in resort towns, officials said.

America's Electoral College on Monday confirmed Donald Trump's election as the 45th president of the United States, unswayed by a desperate bid by die-hard opponents to bar the Republican's path to the White House.

A lorry ploughed into a busy Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more in what police said was a suspected terror attack.

Costa Rica saw an "unprecedented" migratory flow into the country this year, with tens of thousands of mainly Cubans, Haitians and Africans seeking passage to the United States, the government said Sunday.

A plane carrying Russian soldiers crashed in Siberia on Monday, seriously injuring 16, the defence ministry said, quoted by Russian news agencies.

Gunmen killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist and police officers on Sunday in southern Jordan, before security forces killed four attackers in a siege lasting several hours.

Some 350 people were able to leave a rebel-held pocket of east Aleppo on Sunday, a medical official said, despite the official postponement of evacuations of civilians and fighters from the devastated Syrian city.

Polish President Andrzej Duda launched mediation talks Sunday to try to diffuse the nation's seething political crisis, as protesters staged a third day of mass anti-government demonstrations.

Venezuelans lined up Thursday to deposit 100-unit banknotes before they turned worthless, but replacement bills had yet to arrive, increasing the cash chaos in the country with the world's highest inflation.