Palestinian leaders threatened Sunday to withdraw from key provisions of the Oslo Accords, which define arrangements with Israel, if US President Donald Trump announces his Middle East peace plan next week.

Hopes faded Sunday of finding more survivors from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey as more bodies were pulled from the rubble and the death toll climbed to 35. Nearly 4,000 rescue workers combed through debris in freezing temperatures, helped by mechanical diggers, in vain hopes of finding anyone alive in the city of Elazig.

President Xi Jinping warned Saturday that China was facing a "grave" situation as authorities took more drastic steps to halt the spread of a virus that has killed 41 people across the world and is overwhelming hospitals at the epicentre of the health emergency.

A powerful earthquake has killed at least 22 people and injured more than 1,000 in eastern Turkey, as rescue teams searched through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors on Saturday. More than 200 aftershocks have been recorded after the earthquake.

China locked down two major cities in a province at the centre of a deadly virus outbreak on Thursday, banning planes and trains from leaving in an unprecedented move aimed at containing the disease which has already spread to other countries.

Norway's coalition government collapsed on Monday after the populist right-wing Progress Party pulled out in a row over a suspected terrorist supporter repatriated from Syria, news wires reported. However, the PM Erna Solberg said she would stay in office, leading a minority coalition government comprising her Conservatives and the two smaller centrist parties, the Liberals and Christian Democrats.

Dozens of Iraqi protesters were wounded in Baghdad and other cities on Monday in clashes with security forces who were trying to clear blocked roads, security and medical sources said, as anti-government unrest resumed after a lull of several weeks. As the regional crisis recedes, Iraqi activists gave the government a week's deadline to act on their demands for sweeping political reforms or said they would up the pressure with new demonstrations.

A SARS-like virus has killed a third person, spread around China and reached another Asian country, authorities said Monday, fuelling fears of a major outbreak as millions begin travelling for the Lunar New Year in humanity's biggest migration.

Foreign powers agreed at a summit in Berlin on Sunday to sustain the ceasefire in Libya, to uphold an existing UN arms embargo and stop shipping weapons there. All countries and organisations that signed the agreement have committed to refrain from any measures and further military support to the parties that would endanger truce.

EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met for the first time in the High Representative’s new capacity in Berlin on Sunday, on the margins of the Berlin Conference on Libya.