Supporters of a powerful Shia Muslim cleric set up camp outside parliament in Baghdad, after thousands stormed the Green Zone secure area.

Venezuelans lose half an hour of sleep on Sunday when their clocks move forward to save power, as they grapple with a deep economic crisis.

The US says it is working on initiatives to de-escalate fighting in Syria and revive a nationwide cessation of hostilities, particularly in embattled Aleppo.

The American priest and poet Daniel Berrigan - famous for leading defiant protests against the Vietnam War - dies in New York aged 94.

At least one person is killed and 13 other injured as a car bomb goes off near a police headquarters in the south-eastern Turkish city of Gaziantep.

Iraq's Prime Minister orders the arrest of Shia Muslim activists who stormed parliament in protest at delays in approving a new cabinet.

Democrats and Republicans alike are the target of jokes by President Barack Obama in his last White House Correspondents' dinner before leaving office.

Hundreds of people hold a rare protest in Vietnam against the mass death of fish, which the demonstrators blame on a Taiwanese company.