Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City.

The potential scale of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the U.S. federal government could become clearer on Thursday, the deadline for government agencies to submit plans for a second wave of mass layoffs and to slash their budgets.

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle.

Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said, adding that laboratory confirmation of the disease was “a major alert” for the country’s health officials.

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process.

Indian authorities arrested at Washington’s request a cryptocurrency exchange administrator accused of money laundering conspiracy and violating sanctions, India’s top crime fighting bureau said on Wednesday.

China’s embassy in New Zealand accused Wellington’s top spy of “spreading false information” today, after the intelligence chief warned of security risks posed by Beijing’s growing influence in the Pacific.

South Korean military investigators charged two Air Force pilots today with criminal negligence over an accidental bombing of a village last week during a training exercise, which injured at least 29 people and caused extensive property damage.

A Nasa-SpaceX mission that aimed to clear the way for two stranded astronauts to get back to Earth has been postponed.

Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s next prime minister on Friday morning, marking the final day of Justin Trudeau’s more than nine years in power.

Russia has presented the U.S. with a list of demands for a deal to end its war against Ukraine and reset relations with Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter.

U.S. Senate Democrats huddled for hours on Wednesday plotting a course forward on a stopgap funding bill passed by the Republican-controlled House, with only two more days remaining before a partial government shutdown would be triggered.