Tania Vanessa Avalos arrived in El Salvador with a family friend who had gone with them on their ill-fated journey to the United States.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday invited North Korea's Kim Jong-un to shake hands during a visit by Trump to the demilitarised zone with South Korea.

Juncker described the pact with the bloc made up of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as "an historic moment" that came 20 years after talks were launched.

And, for the flamboyant, rumpled, ambitious former London mayor Boris Johnson, there's been some tripping up already.

Carter's comments came during a panel discussion at a retreat for donors to the Carter Centre, an organisation he founded in 1982 that has been at the forefront of election monitoring efforts around the globe for decades.

Australian nurse Kirsty Boden "paid the ultimate price", one of London's top police officers said as the inquest drew to a close.

The mercury reached an all-time high at 45.9 degrees amid a heatwave in Europe that has claimed several lives.

Iranians, they're just like us: they too have watched Avengers: Endgame.

Indonesia's foreign ministry has weighed in to the recycling issue, saying the country should not have to deal with waste from countries such as Australia.

The one-time financier and friend of rich and famous was charged this week with trafficking girls. This week on Please Explain: how powerful men avoid accountability.

A British naval vessel escorting an oil tanker has aimed its guns at Iranian boats.

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In a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the states told China to stop arbitrary incarceration of Uighurs and other Muslims minorities.

Masses of tangled plastic litter and packets of snacks were retrieved from the animals' stomachs, with the heaviest amount weighing 4.3 kilograms.

What Kim Darroch lacked, in the face of the attacks from Trump, was a strong endorsement from the man now favoured to be prime minister, Boris Johnson.

A couple caught up in one of the worst embryo-related mix-ups in US history has filed a lawsuit against the fertility clinic at the centre of the debacle.

After a 57-year-old was declared missing, attention gradually turned to his only companions - 18 dogs.

The United States appears to be heading toward a full military withdrawal from Syria amid growing chaos, an unexpected deal and signs that Turkey's invasion could fuel a broader war.

Joko Widodo may have won a second term as president, but Indonesian democracy is in a parlous state.

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The Chinese state newspaper's editorial wrote approvingly of the Australian Prime Minister but criticised Peter Dutton, who it said "represents a clique of alt-right forces".

Nearly 8 million people were advised to evacuate during the deluge and 200,000 people were without power.

The Chinese President has drawn the attention of protesters in Hong Kong with his strong warning to separatists.

Gunmen dressed in soccer uniforms halted an express bus on a main highway in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state and kidnapped 31 people, most of them firefighters, authorities say.

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