Otto Perez resigned as president and was imprisoned on Thursday while a judge weighs charging him in a corruption scandal that gutted his government and plunged the country into a political crisis days before a presidential election.
A new United Nations report says Gaza could be "uninhabitable" in less than five years if current economic trends continue.
Malaysian police want to question former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad about anti-government comments, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be a bid to stifle the veteran leader's campaign to bring down the current prime minister.
The designer of a logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has said he asked organizers to yank the scandal-hit emblem due to unbearable harassment he faced in the wake of plagiarism allegations.
Lebanese police ejected protesters who occupied part of the environment ministry on Tuesday to press the minister to resign, raising tensions over their campaign against uncollected garbage and a stagnant political class.
Kidnapped, beaten, sold and raped: the Islamic State group is running an international market in Iraq where Christian and Yazidi women are sold as sexual slaves, a teenager who escaped told AFP on Tuesday.
The Greek government was set to hold talks on Wednesday on the huge numbers of migrants landing on its shores, as about 4,300 more people, most of them Syrian refugees, arrived in Athens overnight.
Guatemala's Congress voted on Tuesday to strip President Otto Perez of his immunity, clearing the way for him to be prosecuted for allegedly masterminding a multi-million-dollar corruption scheme.
Poland said on Tuesday it would deploy the military to look for an alleged Nazi "gold train" that sparked global fascination after two anonymous treasure hunters claimed they had pinpointed where it is buried.
Invoking God's authority, a Kentucky county clerk continued to defy courts on Tuesday and stood by her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Eight people died in an apartment fire early on Wednesday in Paris, officials said, and police were investigating whether the fire was started intentionally.
New Zealanders were shown four versions of what might become the next national flag on Tuesday - all of them a variation on the theme of the country's native flora.
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