The Republican governors of three states are deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, DC, at the request of the administration of President Donald Trump, who has portrayed the city as awash in crime.

A highly anticipated summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin yielded no agreement to resolve or pause Moscow's war in Ukraine, despite both leaders describing the talks in Alaska as productive.

Hundreds of firefighters have battled to put out wildfires across southern Europe, some of which are believed to have been set deliberately by arsonists.

Typhoon Podul has hit Taiwan's sparsely populated southeast coast, packing winds of up to 191kmh as a large swathe of parts of the island shut down and hundreds of flights were cancelled.