At least 39 artisanal miners were killed on Thursday when part of a copper and cobalt mine owned by Glencore collapsed in southeast Congo, the provincial governor said. (Update 2pm EST)

Economists expect the European Central Bank (ECB) to indicate that the bank ready to reduce interest rates and finally deliver the decision in September.

China’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that Canadian navy ships sailed through the Strait of Taiwan, which separates self-ruled Taiwan from China.

Thousands of people in Hong Kong joined an evening protest and marched to major foreign consulates on Wednesday, urging leaders gathering for this week’s summit of G20 nations to back their demand to scrap a controversial extradition bill.

NATO urged Russia on Tuesday to destroy a new missile before an August deadline and save a treaty that keeps land-based nuclear warheads out of Europe or face a more determined alliance response in the region.

Russia is leading a series of meetings about Syria with the U.S. and Israel.

A court in Vietnam on Monday sentenced a U.S. citizen to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of “attempting to overthrow the state” in a trial that lasted just half a day, his lawyer said.

Royal KPN NV, the Netherlands’ largest telecommunications company, suffered a major outage on Monday, state broadcaster NOS reported.

Two Eurofighters collided in the airspace northeast of Malchow (Mecklenburg Lake District).

Arab politicians and commentators greeted U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East $50 billion economic vision with a mixture of derision and exasperation, although some in the Gulf called for it to be given a chance.