President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that South Africa would not receive an invitation to participate in next year’s G20 summit in Florida, after the U.S. boycotted the leaders’ summit in Johannesburg last week.

A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Martin Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes years before he took office, adding to a list of former leaders jailed for corruption.

The EU’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognize a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.

Floods have swept through Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, leaving more than 50 people dead in some of the worst flooding to hit South-East Asia in years.

A woman was killed and a man was seriously injured in a shark attack on a beach near a popular surf spot on Australia’s east coast, authorities said.

The New Zealand government announced an inquiry into the disappearance of the Phillips children, who were hidden by their fugitive father in dense bush without discovery for several years.

A group of army officers said they had seized power in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday, a day before the planned announcement of results from a hotly contested presidential election.

Two National Guard soldiers were shot on Wednesday near the White House in what officials described as a targeted ambush, and the suspect was in custody after suffering gunshot wounds during the attack.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared a nationwide security emergency and ordered the army and police to recruit thousands of additional personnel to tackle worsening armed violence across the country.

U.S. President Donald Trump called Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week and advised her not to provoke Beijing on the question of Taiwan’s sovereignty, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Japanese officials and an American briefed on the call.

At least 36 people were killed and 279 were missing after Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in three decades ripped through high-rise residential towers sheathed in flammable bamboo scaffolding, authorities said.

A massive fire tore through one of Dhaka’s largest slums on Tuesday evening, leaving thousands of people homeless and turning rows of tin-roofed shanties into charred rubble, officials said.