Agence France-Presse

Britain and the US have banned laptops and tablet computers from the passenger compartment of flights from several Middle East and North African nations. A French civil aviation agency spokesman said France was considering whether to impose similar measures.

The call for the meeting came after Pyongyang had earlier launched at least four missiles, with three splashing down in the sea close to key US ally Japan.

Finance minister Philip Hammond said Sunday that Britain would "do whatever we need to do" to be competitive if the country left the European Union without concluding a trade agreement.

An April referendum would give Erdogan an executive presidency, which supporters say would unite the country. Opponents say it'd become authoritarianism.

An ultra-conservative Russian lawmaker on Saturday urged the culture ministry to check Disney's upcoming film "Beauty and the Beast" for possible breaches of a law banning "gay propaganda."

The Colombian peace deal with the FARC has led farmers to move from farming coca to legal crops.

More than 28,000 people have streamed out of west Mosul since February 19, when security forces began a push to wrest control from the Islamic State group, according to International Organization for Migration figures.

Mexico vowed not to let the United States impose migration reforms on it Thursday as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security chief John Kelly visited the country.

US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn discussed the issue of US sanctions with Russia's ambassador weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president. The talks took place just as then-President Barack Obama was ordering new actions against Russia over its alleged interference in the US election.

Top Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was found guilty on Wednesday of embezzlement and given a five-year suspended sentence that threatens to end his bid to challenge President Vladimir Putin in a presidential poll next year.