The United States said it was ending the export of sensitive military items to Hong Kong, no longer treating the financial hub separately from China.

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Monday gave the head of the European Union mission in Caracas, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, 72 hours to leave the country after the bloc announced sanctions against 11 Venezuelan officials.

Iran has issued an arrest warrant for US President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the Fars news agency.

The Rolling Stones are threatening President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desist directives, AP reports.

President Trump announced Friday that he signed an executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues and threatened those who try to pull them down with “long prison time.”

The President of the United States Donald Trump was wrong to divert $2.5bn meant for the Pentagon to build part of his long-sought wall along the US-Mexico border, a federal appeals court said on Friday. According to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, the White House lacked constitutional authority for the transfer, noting that Congress had denied the funding and finding no “unforeseen military requirement” to justify it.

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Mexico, the National Seismological Service said on Tuesday, with six people reported killed and dozens of buildings damaged. Another four people had been injured. Earlier, civil protection coordinator David Leon had told W Radio that four people had been killed and five people had been injured, dpa reminds.

The US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order temporarily banning access to several employment-based visas, news wires reported. The move will affect hundreds of thousands of people seeking to work in the US.

Senior diplomats from the United States and Russia, the world's two biggest nuclear powers, held arms control talks at a meeting in Vienna on Monday, eight months before a key nuclear weapons pact is to expire. The New START agreement, in force for a decade but due to end in February, is the last remaining nuclear arms control deal between the two countries.

The US President Donald Trump on Saturday launched his comeback rally by defining the upcoming election as a stark choice between national heritage and left-wing radicalism. But his intended show of political force featured thousands of empty seats at Tusla arena and new coronavirus cases on his own campaign staff, news wires reported.