A depraved man who elicited sexual abuse material from more than 80 children in Australia and overseas via social media will spend up to 30 years behind bars.

The International Monetary ​Fund selected Alvaro Piris Chavarri as ‌its new mission chief for Venezuela, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the ​matter.

Residents attacked an Ebola burial team in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province this week, ‌forcing responders to abandon a coffin and raising fears of further transmission, the health ministry said.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling coalition will face a test of its public support amid signs of internal tensions after two states this week called ​snap elections, as speculation mounts over an early national poll.

Following the first confirmation of screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, on a U.S. farm in decades, federal and ​state officials have fanned out in South Texas, where a calf was found infested this week.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korea ‌from June 8 to 9, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, his first trip in nearly seven years as Beijing looks to reassert ties with Pyongyang.

The U.S. imposed sanctions on Cuban ‌President Miguel Diaz-Canel and some affiliated people and entities, the U.S. Treasury Department’s website showed.

The US House of Representatives passed a measure that seeks to halt President Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran.

A flesh-eating parasite that feeds on warm-blooded animals has been detected in the US for the first time since 1966.

Taiwan ​has pressed China to recognise the deadly crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 37 years ago, in commemorating the ‌anniversary on Thursday of an event that remains taboo for Beijing.

Germany’s foreign minister says support for Ukraine and Israel may have cost votes after Berlin failed to secure a rotating spot on the UN Security Council.

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire, the US State Department has announced in a statement.