Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has lashed out at Germany after Berlin's Environment Ministry said it was cutting financial support for projects aimed at preserving the Amazon forest due to increasing deforestation, news wires reported. "(Germany) is not going to buy the Amazon," Bolsonaro told journalists in the capital, Brazilia, on Sunday. "They can make good use of this money. Brazil doesn't need it."

Nearly 50,000 people took part in an anti-government rally in Moscow on Saturday, carrying placards with slogans such as "Give us the right to vote!" and "You've lied to us enough", while others held up pictures of activists arrested at earlier demonstrations. The move marked one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012.

The attack by a gunman at a Norwegian mosque on Saturday will be investigated as a possible act of terrorism, police said on Sunday.

Argentines have their first chance on Sunday to head to the ballot boxes in a high-stakes presidential race in which they must choose between staying the course of painful austerity measures or a return to interventionist economics.Sunday's presidential primaries are an important litmus test in Argentina, which will hold its general elections on 27 October.

Libya’s internationally recognized government, which is facing a campaign by eastern troops to take the capital, has accepted a United Nations proposal for a ceasefire during the Eid al-Adha religious holiday, Reuters said, citing a statement released on Friday.

The United States' President Donald Trump said Friday that fellow Republicans will set aside resistance to restricting access to firearms by supporting background checks for people buying weapons in the wake of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas.

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam warned Friday that two months of pro-democracy demonstrations were causing economic chaos in the city, AFP reports. Yet, she ruled out making concessions to "silence the violent protesters". Her words came as she met with business leaders as thousands of pro-democracy activists staged a sit-in at Hong Kong airport, hoping to win international support for their movement.

A short-term spike in radiation levels was recorded in a northern Russian city after a rocket engine exploded at a military testing site on Thursday, TASS news agency cited a spokeswoman for city authorities in Severodvinsk as saying

Indonesian President Joko Widodo reaffirmed on Thursday that the country's capital would be moved to Borneo island from sinking and traffic-clogged Jakarta. All preparations, including the legal framework, are expected to be completed by next year, so construction can start by 2021.

Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless it curbs emissions and stops unsustainable farming and deforestation, a landmark climate assessment said Thursday. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that efforts to limit global warming while feeding a booming population could be wrecked without swift and sweeping changes to how we use the land we live off.