The Colombian government and the country's second-largest rebel group, the ELN, announced they would launch negotiations on October 27 in Ecuador's capital, with President Juan Manuel Santos predicting "total peace".
Haiti faces a humanitarian crisis that requires a "massive response" from the international community, the United Nations chief said, with at least 1.4 million people needing emergency aid following last week's battering by Hurricane Matthew.
Russia and Turkey have signed an agreement to build a gas pipeline under the Black Sea, as President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to intensify relations after a bitter crisis.
The US government reiterated its request that construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota be paused, while authorities consider the impacts of its route on a Native American tribe.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen has said it will investigate an air raid that killed more than 140 people at a funeral, after the US said it was reviewing support for the alliance.
China's yuan dipped to a six-year low against the dollar on Monday, breaching a key psychological threshold after a week-long national holiday that saw offshore-traded yuan slump to nine-month lows.
More than 20 people were buried under rubble after four houses collapsed in China on Monday, a local government and state media reported.
Samsung Electronics has suspended production of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, a report said on Monday, a month after a recall prompted by battery explosions and a day after two major overseas distributors halted replacements.
FARC guerrillas have returned to their hideouts in the Colombian jungle and mountains after voters rejected a landmark peace deal with the government, Red Cross sources said.
Global finance leaders have publicly confronted the rising unpopularity of trade liberalisation, saying world economies needed to strive for more inclusive growth.
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting today on Syria after a UN envoy warned that eastern Aleppo may be totally destroyed in the next few months by the Russian and Syrian air campaign.
Turkey has said that its troops will remain in Iraq despite Baghdad’s growing anger ahead of a planned operation to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State group jihadists.
The airline industry has agreed on a framework for reducing its carbon footprint at a UN meeting in Montreal, the first time a commercial sector has voluntarily tackled climate change.
Life expectancy worldwide has jumped by a decade since 1980, rising in 2015 to 69 years for men and nearly 75 for women, according to a comprehensive overview of global health released.
Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next secretary general of the United Nations following a decisive vote by the Security Council yesterday.
International donors pledged $15.2 billion at a conference in Brussels yesterday to get Afghanistan through the next four years, urging the Taliban to make peace after years of war.
The Haitian authorities have postponed presidential and legislative elections originally set for Sunday because of the havoc caused by Hurricane Matthew, election officials said yesterday.
Russia said Tuesday it has sent an advanced missile system to the Syrian port of Tartus, as tensions escalate between Moscow and Washington over the five-year conflict.
Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Kaine and Mike Pence launched into their only debate of the campaign Tuesday, immediately clashing on the reputations, experiences and policies of their bosses chasing the White House.
