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Brazil president reshuffles cabinet to avert disaster Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ordered a government reshuffle, axing eight ministries in what was announced as a cost-cutting measure but seemed aimed at ending political paralysis.

03 October 2015

Facts about 'routine' mass shootings in the US President Barack Obama has voiced anger and sadness over "routine" mass shootings in the United States after 10 people were killed in an attack at a community college in Oregon.

03 October 2015

Trump pulls out of event at US Hispanic chamber Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump has backed out of an appearance at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

03 October 2015

Ukraine local elections will not take place in 2015: Hollande French President Francois Hollande said that local elections in Ukraine, planned for October, will be delayed until next year.

03 October 2015

Chechen strongman calls on Kremlin to send local troops to Syria Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov called on the Kremlin to let a contingent from his region fight the Islamic State in Syria, where Russia launched air strikes earlier this week.

03 October 2015

Gorbachev says health improving, can walk again The Soviet Union's last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has been battling diabetes, said his health is improving and that he can walk again with the help of a stick.

02 October 2015

Russian air strikes in Syria to last three to four months: Russian lawmaker Russian air strikes in Syria will last for three to four months and will intensify, a senior Russian lawmaker said as President Vladimir Putin was due in Paris for talks.

02 October 2015

Israel PM imposes silence on UN over Iran deal Israel's prime minister savaged the nuclear deal with Iran, falling silent for nearly a minute at the United Nations in protest and offering to resume direct peace talks with the Palestinians.

02 October 2015

Spain's general election set for December 20: PM Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced that Spain's forthcoming general election will be held on December 20.

02 October 2015

Clinton urges gun control after deadly Oregon shooting US presidential candidates took time from campaigning to reflect on Thursday's deadly mass shooting at an Oregon college, with Democrat Hillary Clinton calling for "sensible" gun law reform.

02 October 2015

North Korea at UN calls for peace treaty North Korea's foreign minister told the United Nations that a peace treaty was urgently needed to prevent a repeat of the military standoff that rattled Asia two months ago.

02 October 2015

Europe risks being 'destabilized' by migrant crisis: Hungary PM Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned at the United Nations that Europe will be "destabilized" if the mass flows of migrants and refugees continue unabated.

01 October 2015

State Dept releases latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails The State Department released a new batch of 6,300 pages of emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton when she served as top US diplomat and controversially used a private email account.

01 October 2015

Trump would send home Syrian refugees Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump said that he would send thousands of Syrian refugees back to their home country if he is elected in November.

01 October 2015

Turkish PM at UN calls for refugee 'safe zone' in Syria Turkey's prime minister used his UN General Assembly speech to press demands for a "safe zone" to be created in Syria to protect civilians fleeing barrel bombs and the Islamic State group.

01 October 2015

Western fears that air strikes don't target IS 'unfounded': Russia Russia rejected accusations that Moscow had bombed moderate rebel factions fighting President Bashar al-Assad instead of Islamic State fighters and had hit civilians.

01 October 2015

Kerry: US not against Russian strikes, but Assad must go The United States does not oppose Russian air strikes in Syria if they target the Islamic State group, but Bashar al-Assad must step down.

01 October 2015

Putin wins parliament approval for Syria air strikes Russian President Vladimir Putin won permission from parliament to carry out air strikes in Syria.

30 September 2015

Catalan leader slams lawsuit over breakaway vote Catalonia's president Artur Mas accused the Spanish government of suing him because its "pride was hurt" by his bids to let his region vote on independence from Spain.

30 September 2015

Russia to propose draft UN Security Council resolution on 'battling terrorism' Russia will propose a United Nations Security Council resolution on fighting "terrorism", deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.

30 September 2015

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