French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a gender-balanced cabinet in accordance with an earlier pledge, with 11 of 22 posts taken by women.
President Donald Trump asked FBI chief James Comey to end an inquiry into links between his ex-national security adviser and Russia, US media report.
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The party of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron has selected a diverse list of 428 candidates for parliamentary elections next month.
US President Donald Trump has insisted he is not under investigation, as he dismissed the FBI director he fired as a "showboat" and "grandstander".
Barack Obama warned newly elected President Donald Trump against hiring Michael Flynn as national security adviser, the White House has confirmed.
Polls have opened in South Korea's presidential election, called early after a corruption scandal that brought down President Park Geun-hye.
The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron says it has been the target of a "massive hacking attack" after a trove of documents was released online.
A Sydney ferry worker has captured the moment a giant wave hit his vessel, in a dramatic photograph.
The body of a German hostage beheaded by Islamist militants in the Philippines this week has been recovered, military officials say.
The shot was fired as the officer moved position on a roof about 100m (328ft) from a tent where Mr Hollande was speaking in the town of Villognon.
Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd has accused Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu of "torpedoing" peace negotiations in the Middle East.
Dozens of former Turkish soldiers were brought to trial on Monday on charges of trying to kill President Recep Tayyip Erdoganduring a coup attempt in July, the latest in a series of trials in the plot.
Philippine prosecutors have filed drug-related charges against a senator who is an outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
Mr Michael Flynn, the national security adviser of the United States, resigned on Monday night (Feb 13) after it was revealed that he had misled Vice-President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the US, according to a source close to the Trump administration.
The US Senate is expected to confirm former Goldman Sachs banker and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary on Monday (Feb 13), returning a Wall Street veteran to the top US economic and financial job for the first time in eight years.
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