World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

France has signalled a "breakthrough" at 46-nation talks in Paris tasked with paving the way for a highly-anticipated climate rescue pact to be inked in December.

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LONDON - Prince George's second birthday has been marked by the release of an official picture showing the toddler smiling as he is held by his proud beaming father.

ATHENS - Debt-ridden Greece has received a welcome boost with Standard & Poor's lifting its credit rating by two notches.

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is refusing to shy away from controversy during his presidential campaign, trash-talking his rivals during a speech in South Carolina.

MADRID - Three Spanish freelance journalists have gone missing in Syria where they were reporting from the northwestern Aleppo region, the Spanish press federation said.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has ordered American flags to be flown at half mast until Saturday to honour five US servicemen who died in a shooting rampage in Tennessee last week.

BERLIN - Lufthansa has defended its treatment of families of victims of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps, saying its compensation offer had gone "well beyond" what was required by law.

NANTERRE - A French prosecutor says there is no case to answer regarding the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose widow alleges he was poisoned.


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