A worldwide pact to battle global warming entered into force yesterday, just a week before nations reassemble to discuss how to make good on their promises to cut planet-warming greenhouse gases.

The High Court ruling that UK Prime Minister Theresa May cannot trigger the formal process of leaving the European Union without the prior approval of Parliament is not seen as adversely impacting on the UK’s relations with Qatar and other Gulf states.

Hundreds of French police cleared a huge migrant camp in northeast Paris yesterday in a fresh sign of the government’s determination to take refugees off the streets and into shelters.

Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of the main pro-Kurdish opposition party in a terrorism investigation yesterday.

Scientists have found that smoking a pack a day of cigarettes can cause 150 damaging changes to a smoker’s lung cells each year.

White House frontrunner Hillary Clinton and Republican insurgent Donald Trump launched a final blitz to win votes in key battleground states yesterday, slogging toward the end of America’s divisive presidential campaign.

Philippine police have stepped up security on the holiday island of Cebu, the president’s spokesman said yesterday, after the US embassy warned its citizens that “terrorist” groups could be planning kidnappings there.

Two former allies of New Jersey governor Chris Christie were yesterday convicted for their roles in the “Bridgegate” lane closure scandal, following a six-week trial that served to further tarnish the Republican’s damaged reputation.

Beijing is set to step into a controversy over whether two Hong Kong lawmakers who advocate a split from China should be banned from taking up their seats, authorities in the special autonomous region said yesterday.

A tearful and apologetic South Korean President Park Geun-hye said yesterday that her “heart was breaking” over a political scandal that has engulfed her administration, pledging to co-operate with prosecutors in their investigation.

Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebaab group remains capable of launching large-scale attacks despite claims that the insurgency is weakening, a UN report warned yesterday.

The thick smog hanging in the air in Lahore and its adjoining districts has disrupted routine life, causing health problems and fatal road accidents as well as flight delays.