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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been locked in a dead heat in their historic clash for the White House, as the world waited anxiously for results from the key battleground states that will decide the winner.

Britain's Supreme Court said on Tuesday it has set aside four days starting on December 5 to hear the government's appeal against a landmark ruling that it must seek parliament's approval to start the Brexit process.

An investment of just US$1-2 per person per month could give all people in low- and middle-income countries access to a basket of 201 essential medicines, researchers have said.

South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday raided Samsung Electronics' headquarters as part of a probe into a damaging political scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her close personal friend.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have given US voters a stark choice as their brutal White House battle neared its end -- between her vision of unity and his promise to take back power from Washington's corrupt elites.

The United States is using Apache helicopters in the battle to retake Iraq's second city of Mosul after more than two years of Islamic State group rule, the Pentagon has said.

Estonia's three-party coalition government has collapsed as its two junior partners ended their co-operation with pro-NATO Prime Minister Taavi Roivas amid infighting over his leadership.

The FBI has lifted the threat that Hillary Clinton could face charges over her emails, leaving White House rival Donald Trump to demand that US voters punish her at the ballot box.

Hundreds of families have been driven out of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk in apparent retaliation for a recent attack by the Islamic State group, Amnesty International said on Monday.

A peacekeeper from Togo and two Malian civilians have been killed in an attack on a military convoy in Mali, rounding off a bloody week for foreign forces stationed there, a UN statement said.

British police were trying to quell a prison riot involving up to 200 inmates, which broke out just days after a warders' association warned of a "bloodbath" in the UK's detention facilities.

A year after the elections of Nov 8 last year, the people of Myanmar are still anxiously waiting for the reforms that the NLD government promised.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was targeted by all six of his rivals yesterday in a punchy televised debate of candidates seeking to clinch the right-wing nomination for next year's election.

Governments must do more to protect children from sophisticated online methods used to market unhealthy foods to them, the World Health Organization in Europe said in a report released today.

A hard-fought pact to stave off worst-case-scenario global warming enters into force yesterday after record-fast ratification by nations reassembling next week for a fresh round of UN climate talks.

The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said he agreed with a court ruling on Thursday that the spy agency had held onto sensitive data beyond the time frame allowed by court warrants.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye today agreed to submit to questioning by prosecutors investigating a corruption scandal engulfing her administration, accepting that the damaging fallout was "all my fault".

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday (Nov 2) personally saw off 17 Vietnamese fishermen who had trespassed in Philippine waters, after ordering their release in a gesture of friendship towards Hanoi.