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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the highest-level talks between the rival powers in nearly a year as they see if they can make headway on a raft of disagreements from Venezuela to Iran to arms control.

A jury in California on Monday ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than US$2 billion damages to a couple that sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said.

France was Tuesday to pay its final respects to two commandos killed during a raid to rescue four hostages in the Sahel region of Africa last week that has sparked a row over the risks taken by the freed tourists.

The death toll from a major cyclone that hit eastern India and Bangladesh in early May rose to 77 on Monday as anger grew over millions of people still without power and water.

Voting got under way in the Philippines' midterm elections on Monday, three years after President Rodrigo Duterte won power.

Gunmen killed a priest and five parishioners during mass Sunday in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, northern Burkina Faso, security sources and a local official said.

Pakistan and the IMF have reached a new agreement securing a $6 billion bailout for the cash-strapped country, officials said Sunday, following months of painstaking negotiations between the two sides.

Sudan's army rulers and protesters are to hold fresh talks over handing power to a civilian administration on Monday, spokesmen for the generals and the protest movement said.

Critical US-China trade negotiations were heading into a second day on Friday, under the shadow of steep new tariffs on Chinese goods that took effect just after midnight.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to survive a vote of confidence in parliament on Friday, as he seeks to shore up support ahead of a triple election challenge that kicks off this month.

Mexico City's legislature voted on Thursday to ban businesses from buying, selling or giving their customers disposable plastics, a major shift for a sprawling capital that is awash in them.

Facebook is unwittingly auto-generating content for terror-linked groups that its artificial intelligence systems do not recognize as extremist, according to a complaint made public on Thursday.

Famine is on the rise in the Near East and North Africa with more than 52 million people undernourished, most of them in conflict zones, the UN food agency said on Wednesday.

European leaders are meeting in Romania today to start the race for the top jobs in Brussels and sketch a future without Britain, as the fate of the Iran nuclear deal teeters in the balance.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has warned of a possible "military escalation" with neighboring Colombia after Bogota accused Caracas of sheltering leftist guerrillas on its territory.

New Zealand introduced legislation on Wednesday to make the South Pacific nation carbon neutral by 2050, although greenhouse gas emissions from the economically vital agricultural sector will not have to meet the commitment.

The era of doctors prescribing patients powerful antibiotics while they wait for lab reports could soon be numbered, with a new device returning results within minutes instead of days.