World News Update; What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Police have stopped two men from carrying out an attack on security forces in the central French city of Orleans, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says.

ELSEWHERE:

BERLIN - Migrants carrying forged passports from the same workshop as those held by two of the Paris terrorists have entered Europe through Germany.

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has used a vulgar term to describe Hillary Clinton's loss to Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination - and then poked fun at her for taking a bathroom break during a debate.

JAKARTA - Counter-terrorism forces are searching for the leaders of an estimated 1000 Islamic State sympathisers across Indonesia after a string of raids that led to the arrest of several men suspected of planning bomb attacks, police say.

NEW YORK - The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution demanding that all combatants in Syria allow the urgent delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid to more than 13.5 million people.

NEW YORK - A female Air Force officer who was one of the first openly gay service members to marry has been identified as one of six US troops killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina - US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who disappeared in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, has appeared before a military judge on charges of desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy.


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