Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has vowed to rebuild the entire region flattened by Sunday’s earthquake as the country’s main farming union called for help.

A deal to end the partition of Cyprus, one of Europe’s most enduring conflicts, is closer than ever and could be clinched by the end of this year, a senior UN envoy said yesterday.

Colombia wants to strengthen its trade and investment ties with Britain after the country leaves the European Union, President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday.

Venezuela has freed three opposition activists jailed for more than a month in a first gesture by President Nicolas Maduro’s government after talks began with his foes.

Actress Tippi Hedren graphically chronicles in a new memoir incidents in which she says she was sexually assaulted and harassed by famed British director Alfred Hitchcock during her star turns in The Birds and Marnie.

An explosive new poll showed Donald Trump leading the race for the White House yesterday, amid an avalanche of revelations and allegations a week before Election Day.

Turkey’s prime minister has said he had no regard for Europe’s “red line” on press freedom and warned that Ankara would not be brought to heel with threats, rejecting criticism of the detention of senior journalists at an opposition newspaper.

Vietnam’s glitterati donned their finest on the red carpet yesterday for the opening of the Hanoi International Film Festival, aimed at boosting the communist nation’s little-known movie industry.

Malaysia has agreed to buy four Chinese naval vessels and pledged with Beijing to handle South China Sea disputes bilaterally, a Chinese official said yesterday, in what could be China’s latest counter to US influence in the region.

Seven months after the European Union and Turkey struck an agreement to turn back the tide of Syrians fleeing west, not a single refugee has been sent back from Greece, and Brussels is losing its patience as overcrowded camps grow violent.

Pope Francis held a public mass yesterday for the Catholic minority in Sweden, a Lutheran but secular country where same-sex marriage is allowed even for priests.

Philippine church leaders yesterday renewed calls for an end to killings linked to President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war as millions of people took part in traditional ceremonies to remember the dead.