Colombia’s government and Marxist Farc rebels have announced a revised peace deal to end 52 years of armed conflict, after voters rejected a prior peace accord in a referendum.

Five months to the day after Britain voted for Brexit, its finance minister will outline how the government plans to cope with the economic fallout and voters’ frustrations which had echoes in Donald Trump’s US election triumph.

Leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage visited Donald Trump at his home, after suggesting he could act as a go-between to help smooth British relations with the US president-elect.

Survivors of a massive bomb attack on a shrine in southwest Pakistan that killed dozens spoke of their horror yesterday after families were ripped apart in a strike showing the expanding reach of the Islamic State group.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday inaugurated a trade route linking southwestern Gwadar port to the Chinese city of Kashgar as part of a joint multi-billion-dollar project to jumpstart economic growth in the South Asian country.

South Korean prosecutors will question President Park Geun-hye over a political corruption scandal engulfing her presidency, an official said yesterday, the first time a sitting president will be questioned by prosecutors over a criminal case.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said two people were killed in a powerful earthquake that the struck the Pacific nation yesterday.

Bulgarians yesterday voted in a high-stakes presidential run-off that could see centre-right Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s government fall if his handpicked candidate fails to defeat a Socialist-backed general.

Around 80,000 people rallied yesterday in Barcelona in a show of support for Catalan leaders locked in a tug-of-war with Madrid over independence for their region, police said.

Moldovans were voting yesterday to choose between pro-Moscow and pro-European candidates in a runoff vote for the next president of the impoverished ex-Soviet country.

As hundreds of thousands thronged banks and ATMs across the country for a fourth day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday sought 50 days to tide over the nationwide cash crisis.

The Reserve Bank of India yesterday urged savers to not hoard money as public anger mounted over the government’s shock decision to withdraw large denomination notes in an attempt to clean up the country’s black economy.