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Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's senior adviser, said Washington would announce its West Asian peace plan soon, and press on with or without Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Sunday she had named her new-born daughter Neve Te Aroha as she prepared to leave hospital amidst an outpouring of public excitement.

Britain has abruptly recalled Bangladeshi-born Anwar Choudhury after barely three months as governor of the Cayman Islands following "a number of complaints against him".

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that people who enter the US illegally should be sent back immediately to where they came from without any judicial process, likening them to invaders who are trying to "break into" the country.

Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party were heading for victory in Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, according to preliminary results, as the President sought to extend his 15-year rule.

A British minister accused Airbus and other major companies of issuing "completely inappropriate" threats and undermining Prime Minister Theresa May in a sign of growing tensions with businesses leaders over Brexit.

The photograph of a Honduran toddler, sobbing as she stares up at her mother, became a symbol of outrage this week at the Trump administration's practice of separating children and parents detained for illegally crossing the border.

When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called early elections two months ago, he seemed assured of victory. But as Sunday's vote approaches, the man who has transformed Turkey over 15 years in power appears increasingly vulnerable.

Around 100,000 supporters of the EU marched through central London on Saturday to demand that the British government hold a final public vote on the terms of Brexit, organisers said.

British singer and actor Sting called world leaders "half men and cowards" on Saturday for their inability to solve the refugee crisis.