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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called on Monday for the reform of European Union budget rules and co-operation on immigration as his new government won a parliamentary confidence vote.

At least three people have died and more than 50 were injured as a powerful typhoon battered the Tokyo metropolitan area, causing transportation outages that affected nearly 3 million commuters and left thousands stranded at Narita airport east of the capital.

A top executive at the World Bank, Kristalina Georgieva of Bulgaria, is now officially unopposed in her bid to become only the second woman ever to lead the International Monetary Fund, the fund announced on Monday.

Beleaguered British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to continue with his attempts to strike a new Brexit deal with Brussels, after losing yet another parliamentary vote on Tuesday to hold an early election.

North Korea fired two short-range projectiles from a western region toward the East Sea/the Sea of Japan to the east on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, just hours after the nation offered to resume nuclear talks with the United States.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted strong ties with North Korea in congratulatory messages sent to leader Kim Jong-un on the occasion of the country's founding anniversary, according to Pyongyang's state media on Monday.

Two heatwaves that hit France this summer claimed more than 1,500 more lives, Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Sunday.

At least 29 people were killed in two attacks in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, in a region prone to jihadist violence, the government said.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will try to save his job and his hardline Brexit strategy on Monday when he confronts parliament and his Irish counterpart in another showdown week.

A powerful typhoon landed near Tokyo early Monday morning, injuring more than 30 people and prompting operators to halt major train services in the metropolitan area, with hundreds of thousands of rush-hour commuters affected at the start of the week.

The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world's first image of a black hole were honored yesterday with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, winning US$3 million dollars for what is known as the "Oscars of science."

Cameroon's main opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who was runner-up in last year's presidential election, on Friday goes to trial in a military court on insurrection charges that have sparked international outcry.

North Carolina braced for a "long night" of strong winds and driving rain as Hurricane Dorian closed in on the coast yesterday after devastating the northern Bahamas, where it left at least 30 people dead and thousands homeless.

Iran is set to detail its latest cut to commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal on Saturday, in response to US sanctions and perceived inaction by other parties to save the accord.

Three Vietnamese men on a foreign trainee program in Japan have sued a construction company for making them conduct radioactive decontamination work related to the March 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture without prior explanation, supporters of the plaintiffs said Wednesday.

Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis on Wednesday lamented the "generational devastation" wrought by Hurricane Dorian, as he confirmed the storm's death toll had risen to at least 20.

Wildfires raging in Bolivia's forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres), officials said Wednesday, amid an US$11 million effort by the government to contain them.

US and Chinese trade negotiators will resume talks in Washington in early October, Beijing said Thursday, after new punitive tariffs raised fears of a breakdown in the protracted negotiations.