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The announcement comes after Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi agreed to the ceasefire in a statement earlier on Monday, a day after international calls for a truce.

In an embarrassment to Boris Johnson, a leading daily in the UK on Sunday made public the British Foreign Secretary's previously unpublished column in which he had appealed to Britain to stay in the EU, days before becoming the star campaigner for Brexit.

The U.S. Navy on Sunday began investigating a possible overnight missile attack from Yemen on a group of American warships in the Red Sea amid uncertainty about what transpired.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's full remarks to several Wall Street audiences appeared to become public on Saturday when the controversial transparency group Wikileaks dumped its latest batch of hacked emails.

Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal, announced Saturday morning after all-night negotiations, to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major effort to fight climate change.

Pakistani journalist Cyril Almeida who was grounded last week is now free to fly abroad.

A giant male silverback gorilla sparked a scare at the world-famous London Zoo after the primate escaped from its enclosure.

Twelve Egyptian soldiers were killed and eight injured in a terrorist attack on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, which has for years battled Islamist militancy.

"He is perhaps best known where it counts most: on the front lines of armed conflict and humanitarian suffering," Ban told the General Assembly after Guterres was appointed. "I have long valued his advice, and long admired his spirit of service."

The UN envoy for Haiti says the impoverished Caribbean nation is facing "a humanitarian tragedy and an acute emergency situation" with 1.4 million people needing immediate help.

Humanitarian and urgent medical cases will be allowed through during the holidays despite the closure, the army said.

Republicans -- including vice presidential nominee Mike Pence -- are criticising Trump, 70, for his vulgar comments about advances he has made toward women in 2005 that came to light on Friday.

The Ethiopian government has declared a state of emergency effective immediately following a week of anti-government violence that resulted in deaths and property damage across the country, especially in the restive Oromia region.

After meeting several US officials over the past five days, the envoys said they noticed a "desire" in Washington to help defuse the tensions.

At least 155 people were killed in Saudi-led airstrikes that hit a funeral home in Yemen's capital of Sanaa, two health ministry officials said late on Saturday.

In a programme organised by the think tank Atlantic Council in Washington, Mushahid Hussain Syed said, "We (Pakistan) are observing a change in US diplomatic policy".