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President Donald Trump decided to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, focusing on economic issues, arguing that abandoning the deal would save manufacturing and mining jobs. Photo: Reuters

US President Donald Trump relies far more than his recent predecessors on advisers with a military background, but his apparent disregard for climate science is at odds with the US military's consensus on the risks of climate change to security.

An air strike by the US-led coalition has killed the founder of the Islamic State propaganda media outlet Amaq in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor, his brother said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials walk through the parking lot of the Pulse gay night club, the site of a mass shooting days earlier, in Orlando, Florida. Photo: Reuters

Police body camera videos of the deadliest mass shooting in modern US. history were released by a Florida newspaper on Wednesday (local time), showing harrowing scenes of officers rushing into the Orlando nightclub where 49 people were killed in June 2016.

A man has been arrested and two others are missing after their investigation of factories that produce shoes for Ivanka Trump and other Western brands. Photo: Reuters

A man has been arrested and two are missing in China after conducting an investigation into a Chinese company making Ivanka Trump-branded shoes, China Labor Watch, a New York-based advocacy group, said on Wednesday (local time).

Men move an injured man to a hospital after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo: Reuters

At least nine people were killed and more than 90 wounded were taken to Kabul hospitals after a huge car bomb exploded in the Afghan capital on Wednesday (local time), a public health official said, and the casualty total could rise.

US military vehicles travel in the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria. Photo: Reuters

At least 352 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the US military said in a statement on Sunday (local time).

United said it would no longer call law enforcement to deny passengers boarding, nor would passengers who are already seated be required to give up their seats on overbooked flights.. Photo: Reuters

United Airlines said on Thursday (local time) it would offer passengers who volunteer to forfeit their seats on overbooked flights up to $10,000 ($NZ14,500) as part of the carrier's efforts to repair the damage from the rough removal of a passenger.

US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley said she will continue to put pressure on Russia to end the Syrian War . Photo: Reuters

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, pushed the UN Security Council on Thursday (local time) to focus "all eyes and all pressure" on Russia to try and end the Syrian conflict and pressed for council action even if it faces a veto by Moscow.

Mexico, Canada and the United States form one of the world's biggest trading blocs, and trade disruptions among them could adversely affect several sectors in all three countries. Photo: Reuters

President Donald Trump said on Thursday (local time) he pulled back from the brink of killing the 23-year-old trade pact with Canada and Mexico after requests from their leaders and expressed optimism about winning better US terms in a renegotiated deal.

The W20 audience was unsympathetic when she called her father a "tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive". Photo: Reuters

Ivanka Trump was booed in Berlin on Tuesday (local time) when she described her father Donald as a "tremendous champion of supporting families" and said she was still fine-tuning her role as first daughter and informal White House adviser.