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Spanish lawmakers on Tuesday approved a commission to probe allegations that acting interior minister Jorge Fernandez-Diaz used ministry resources as "political police" against rivals.

Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Wednesday, his personal doctor said, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battled to break out of deadlocked polls Tuesday after clashing in their first televised debate, lashing each other with insults on the campaign trail in critical states.

Syria's army took control of a rebel-held district in central Aleppo on Tuesday, after days of heavy air strikes that have killed dozens and sparked allegations of war crimes.

Forest fires have hit two million hectares of Siberian forest, where global warming has caused an "exceptional drought", environmental Group Greenpeace said Tuesday.

The United States has tapped Jeffrey DeLaurentis, America's top diplomat in Havana, to become the first official ambassador to Cuba in five decades.

Our planet may grow intolerably hot even if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere remain at current levels, according to the first two-million-year reconstruction of surface temperatures, published on Monday.

The Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday that growth across the region was holding stable despite global headwinds, with resilience in China and India keeping it on track.

Taiwan went into shutdown on Tuesday as the island faces its third typhoon in two weeks, with thousands evacuated, schools and offices closed across the island and hundreds of flights disrupted.

Colombia's leftist FARC rebel force has signed a historic peace accord with the government and apologized to the countless victims of the country's half-century civil war.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump bickered and traded insults in a fiery US presidential debate on Monday, as they aggressively pitched their case to tens of millions of American voters.

The lengthy US presidential campaign is careening towards a 90-minute Monday showdown, with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump squaring off in their first televised debate as they sit nearly neck and neck in the polls.

French tax authorities have asked Switzerland to hand over client information for some 45,000 bank accounts as part of a probe into alleged tax fraud, Le Parisien daily said Monday.

Oil prices rose modestly in Asia on Monday ahead of a producers' meeting this week that might agree to cap supplies.

Yahoo said yesterday a massive attack on its network in 2014 allowed hackers to steal data from half a billion users and may have been "state sponsored".

Protesters took to the streets for a third night in the US city of Charlotte on Thursday amid heavy security aimed at preventing more clashes over the fatal police shooting of a black man.

A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Japan today, though there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Cuba on Thursday for the first visit to the country by a Japanese premier, saying he wants to "open a new page" in relations.