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The high-profile Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima has thrust one of the world’s least popular presidents into the limelight

North Korea says it has tested exploding drones designed to hit targets and leader Kim Jong Un called for accelerating their mass production

The Australian government's plan to ban children from social media to protect them from harm has won almost universal political support

Brazil has launched what it calls a social summit ahead of next week’s Group of 20 meeting of the top economies

Ulrich Renz, a former head of The Associated Press German-language service who also covered trials of leaders of the Auschwitz death camp in World War II, has died at the age of 90

A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives have met with Pope Francis

Tropical Storm Sara has formed in the Caribbean Sea and has begun lashing the sparsely-populated Caribbean coast of Honduras with heavy rain

Tropical Storm Sara has made landfall in northern Honduras and threatens to dump torrential rains across parts of Central America and southern Mexico

Masses of residents are fleeing a running battle between gang members and police in one of the few neighborhoods of Haiti’s capital that hadn’t already been fully taken over by the gangs

Masses of residents are fleeing a running battle between gang members and police in one of the few neighborhoods of Haiti’s capital that hadn’t already been fully taken over by the gangs