Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence says the FBI’s investigation into newly discovered emails said to be linked to Hillary Clinton shows that she is a risky choice for president. But Mrs.Clinton's campaign manager said the FBI director should explain why he took the unprecedent step of announcing a review just days before the election.
Up to 100,000 people in Central Italy are facing a night coping with the effects for the fourth earthquake there since August. The President of the Malky Region said the numbers needing help had risen ten fold. Powerful aftershocks were still bringing down masonry. Residents in one of the worst-hit towns Norcia said they were too frightened to stay.
Saudi Arabia says that earlier this month it’s thwarted a plan to bomb an international football match in Jeddah. Officials said they also foiled a second plot to kill police officers which they say was directed by a leader of the Islamic state group in Syria.
El-Savador's former president Elias Antonio Saca has been arrested on suspecion of embezzling millions of dollars of public funds. Six former officials in his government were also arrested. Mr Saca held office from 2004 to 2009.
The Venezuelan government is due to hold talks with the opposition for the first time this year to try to settle the country's deep political crisis. The discussions are likely to be fraught with disagreement.
There have been large scale protests in several cities in Morocco after a fishseller was crushed to death in a rubbish truck as he tried to retrieve fish confiscated by police. The death of Mouhcine Fikri on Friday prompted anger on social media against official abuse.
And thousands of people have held a silent march in the Romanian capital Bucuresti to mark the first anniversary of a fire at night club which killed 64 people. The blaze prompted the prime minister to resign and made widespread public anger about corruption.
