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Prime Minister Boris Johnson's ruling party appeared on course for a sweeping victory in Thursday's snap election, an exit poll showed, paving the way for Britain to leave the EU next month after years of political deadlock.

Chile confirmed on Thursday that a military plane with 38 people aboard crashed in the sea, with no hope of finding survivors.

Intensifying fears of another eruption frustrated efforts to recover bodies from New Zealand's White Island on Thursday as the official death toll from the volcano disaster rose to eight.

Hundreds of jihadists attacked a Niger military camp near the border with Mali with shelling and mortars, killing 71 soldiers, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.

Britain goes to the polls on Thursday to determine the immediate future of Brexit, in a vote described as the most important in a generation.

Qatar fully opened its new metro network on Tuesday in a major infrastructure milestone ahead of the football World Cup Doha will host in 2022.

The world's first fully electric commercial aircraft took its inaugural test flight on Tuesday, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver where tall mountain peaks edge the Pacific Ocean.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed on Tuesday to demolish three years of stalemate over Brexit, as Britain's political leaders geared up for a frantic final day of general election campaigning.

The United States, Mexico and Canada signed a deal on Tuesday to finalise their new trade agreement, paving the way to ratification after more than two years of arduous negotiations.

Six people including a police officer and two suspects were killed during an hours-long shootout across a New York suburb not far from the Statue of Liberty, local officials said.

Centre-leftist Alberto Fernandez vowed to put his people first ahead of debt repayments after he was sworn in as Argentina's president on Tuesday to singing and applause from lawmakers and supporters.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukranian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday held their first face-to-face talks at a summit in Paris which agreed some measures to de-escalate the Ukraine conflict but clinched no major breakthrough on ending the five-year war.

President Donald Trump hinted on Monday that efforts to push a new continent-wide trade deal through the US Congress were close to success, as senior officials from all sides headed to Mexico for further talks.

American presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg will attend UN climate talks in Madrid on Tuesday with the message that the US is "still in" the fight against global warming despite its looming withdrawal from the world's climate plan.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern expressed "unfathomable grief" on Tuesday after a volcanic eruption on a popular tourist island that is thought to have claimed 13 lives.

Finland's Social Democrats elected a 34-year-old former transport minister to the post of prime minister on Sunday, making her the youngest head of government in the country's history.

The EU's new economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said the bloc should consider loosening its strict budget deficit rules to respond to climate risks and weak growth, echoing a similar call by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Almost 1,000 tourists were stranded in New Zealand's South Island Monday after wild storms cut highways, washed away bridges and flooded the rugged landscape.