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The United Nations urged Syria's government Thursday to allow immediate aid deliveries to hunger-stricken civilians after a fragile ceasefire was extended for 48 hours by Russia and the United States.

The UN Security Council has urged South Sudan's government to take immediate steps to allow a new regional force to deploy in Juba as it weighed imposing an arms embargo.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim effectively won a second five-year term after nominations to lead the global development bank closed on Wednesday with no other candidates proposed.

Typhoon Meranti made landfall in Xiang'an district of Xiamen City, east China's Fujian Province, at 3:05am on Thursday, with gales up to 48m per second.

It's one of Europe's most important wetland reserves, a World Heritage site full of lagoons, woodlands, pristine beaches and dunes, home to more than 4,000 species including the endangered Iberian lynx.

The International Monetary Fund has resumed its bailout of war-torn Ukraine, approving disbursement of US$1 billion from an aid package that had been held up in part on corruption concerns.

New York City investigators on Tuesday searched for a man suspected of setting fire to a traditionally dressed Muslim woman in a Midtown shopping area, police said.

Forces opposed to Libya's unity government seized a fourth oil port, completing their takeover of vital installations in the North African country's "oil crescent", a military source said.

 Plans to create new migrant centres across France notably to house thousands moved from Calais' notorious Jungle camp were condemned by right-wing critics on Tuesday as "irresponsible" and at risk of sparking a "civil war"

Hillary Clinton returns Thursday to the White House campaign fray after a few days at home recovering from pneumonia in a health scare that rocked her bid to become America's first woman president.

 The UN's Syria envoy has applauded a "significant drop" in violence through the first 24 hours of a fragile ceasefire but said security concerns meant aid convoys stayed on hold.

US and Cuban officials held talks in Washington on bilateral economic issues on Monday for the first time since the countries resumed normal diplomatic ties, diplomats said.

A US-and Russia-brokered ceasefire dubbed by Washington as perhaps the "last chance to save Syria" entered its first full day on Tuesday, amid scepticism over how long it would hold.

Libya's UN-backed unity government lost control on Monday of a third oil port seized by rival forces, raising fears of a major outbreak of fresh violence in the chaos-ridden country.

Hillary Clinton sought to draw a line on Monday under the health scare rocking her White House campaign, assuring supporters she will return to the fray this week.

Two huge US strategic bombers flew over South Korea on Tuesday in a show of force against North Korea following Pyongyang's fifth and largest-ever nuclear test.

A ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia and the United States is due to begin at sundown on Monday, after scores of civilians were killed in a bloody weekend of strikes.

Croatia’s main conservative party looked set for victory in the snap election, according to preliminary results, but will likely be forced into another coalition furthering political uncertainty in the EU's newest member.