British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is meeting a top European Union leader on Wednesday, stressing that he won?t extend a year-end deadline for the two sides to negotiate a new trade relationship.

South Korea has put a 36-year-old Chinese woman under isolated treatment amid concerns that she brought back a form of viral pneumonia that has sickened dozens in mainland China and Hong Kong in recent weeks.

An Afghan military helicopter crashed on Wednesday in the country’s western Farah province, killing the two pilots on board, a defense ministry official said.

Iran’s missile attack on two American bases in Iraq in response the the U.S. strike that killed its top general is the culmination of nearly two years of steadily rising tensions since President Donald Trump withdrew from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

A Somali official says a car bomb has killed three people and wounded six others at a checkpoint in the capital.

Sri Lankan police have suspended a leading investigator who probed the killing of journalists and alleged abductions during the government of the current president’s brother for discussing a politically sensitive murder case in a phone call with a government minister.

German factory orders dropped 1.3% in November compared with the previous month, pushed down by a drop in foreign demand and low bulk orders.

As his country burned, Australia’s prime minister was cursed and jeered out of a town, called an ?idiot,? a ?moron? and worse, and skewered at home and abroad for his dismissive response toward climate change.

Stacks of bright green cannabis plants, freshly harvested from nearby hothouses, are expertly sorted on a lab table by workers wearing hygienic gloves and caps who snip the leaves and buds and put them in bins for further processing.

Former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion Garbine Muguruza had a 6-1, 7-6 (2) win over American Shelby Rogers to advance to the quarterfinals of Shenzhen Open on Wednesday.