El Salvador will send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to rescue missing personnel and support ​anti-gang security operations, its foreign ministry said.

At least 68 people died when a Spanish high-speed express slammed into a stationary train.

The Trump administration has issued more than 100 subpoenas demanding records on tens of thousands of voters in at least 13 states, part of an escalating effort ahead of next week’s midterm elections to uncover evidence of unlawful voting by people who aren’t US citizens.

The UN General ​Assembly overwhelmingly urged an end to the decades-long US economic embargo on Cuba on Wednesday, but a US lobbying push led several ‌countries to oppose the resolution or abstain for the first time in years.

Nine days out from New Zealand’s general election on November 7, ​polls continue to show no clear winner ‌or even coalition grouping.

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro declared ​himself Brazil’s rightful leader after arriving in the United States, alleging he was the victim of an electoral coup by the country’s ‌Supreme Court and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won the vote by over 4 million votes.

Arnab, a powerful cyclone, has stalled close to India’s east ​coast with landfall expected to last two more hours, authorities ‌said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Gadi Eisenkot offered competing claims to lead Israel after election, with Netanyahu calling for a right-wing government and Eisenkot saying voters had rejected the longtime Israeli leader, even as exit ​polls left their blocs deadlocked.

Around 1,000 soldiers from El Salvador have been sent to Haiti after four Salvadoran members of ​a UN-backed force went missing during a gang ambush on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince.

Three brothers convicted of exploiting their access to wealth and high society in New York and Miami to ​drug and rape women were each sentenced on Tuesday to ‌30 years in prison.

A group of 37 suspected illegal miners died in detention in ‌Nigeria as a result of severe overcrowding, poor ventilation and neglect, according to a government investigation into their deaths.

A bus fitted out with oxygen tanks is providing a sanctuary in a city on Indonesia’s Borneo island where people are ​choking from forest-fire-induced haze and the blazes show no sign of letting ‌up.