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The surprise arrest of Russia's economy minister over a two-million-dollar bribe on Wednesday sparked shock and bewilderment in the liberal wing of the Russian government.

South Korea fell silent today with heavy trucks banned and businesses opening late as more than 600,000 students sat the high-stakes annual college entrance exam which could define their future in the ultra-competitive country.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday reassured his hosts in Havana that the election of Donald Trump as US president "won't change" his country's close ties to the Caribbean island.

Children don't start wars, and yet millions around the world are caught up in conflicts - conscripted into militias, turned into sex slaves, felled by deadly bombing raids, robbed of their homes and families.

Days after Donald Trump vowed to deport undocumented migrants with criminal records, Mexico's government told its citizens in the United States on Wednesday to "stay calm" and launched a hotline to report "incidents."

Venezuela's high court ordered the opposition on Tuesday to drop plans for a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro, whose rivals blame him for food shortages in the country.

The number of people across the globe suffering from high blood pressure has almost doubled over the past four decades, with the biggest rise in south Asia and Africa, researchers said today.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel intends to stand for a fourth term in next September's elections, a close political ally said Tuesday.

The United States insisted Tuesday its soldiers and spies in Afghanistan are not subject to prosecution by the International Criminal Court and any war crimes probe into their actions would be "unwarranted."

China today weakened the yuan's fix against the dollar to a nearly eight-year low as the surging dollar put further pressure on the unit.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye has hired a lawyer ahead of questioning by prosecutors over a snowballing political scandal that has engulfed her administration, her spokesman said yesterday.

Rescuers in New Zealand today began airlifting tourists stranded by a 7.8 earthquake that devastated parts of the South Island's rugged coast, as a navy ship headed to the stricken area to help.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke on the phone on Monday evening and agreed on the need to normalise ties between Washington and Moscow.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces questioning by prosecutors today at the Ecuadoran embassy in London in a twist in the long-running legal battle over a rape allegation against him.

Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have been nearly flat for three years in a row – a "great help" but not enough to stave off dangerous global warming, a report said today.