Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made an early departure Sunday from a remembrance ceremony on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks after feeling "overheated," but was later doing "much better," her campaign said.

The incident will no doubt make waves on the White House campaign trail, as her Republican rival Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the former secretary of state, 68, was temperamentally and physically unfit to be president.

The Pacific Islands Forum expanded its boundaries to include French Polynesia and New Caledonia, a communique said Sunday at the end of its annual summit, underscoring the changing political face of the region.

Hillary Clinton said Saturday she regretted saying that half of Donald Trump's supporters belong in a "basket of deplorables" - a remark the billionaire Republican slammed as her "worst mistake of the political season."

The Democratic presidential candidate came under fire for remarks made at a New York fundraiser late Friday - remarks that unleashed a wave of derision and mockery on social media.

A man "inspired by" the Islamic state group was Sunday charged with committing an act of terror over a stabbing attack that Australian police called the "new face of terrorism."

French anti-terror judges charged a woman Saturday over a failed jihadist attack near Paris' Notre Dame cathedral, where a car full of gas canisters was found last weekend.

A defiant North Korea Sunday restated its demand for recognition as a "legitimate" nuclear-armed state, as world powers pondered ways to punish Pyongyang for its latest and largest atomic test.

Russia is gearing up for parliamentary elections on September 18, with parties loyal to President Vladimir Putin set to dominate despite the Kremlin making a show of cleaning up the vote after mass protests last time around.

John Hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate president Ronald Reagan 35 years ago, was freed from a psychiatric hospital in Washington on Saturday, a report said.

Hinckley was released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, the Washington Post reported, citing his lawyer Barry Levine, who had confirmed that his client would leave in the morning, and a witness on the sprawling hospital campus. 

Eight youths left FARC rebel camps in Colombia on Saturday, as the insurgents began relocating children and teenagers as part of a historic peace agreement, the Red Cross said Saturday.

The government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's largest rebel group, concluded a final peace accord last month to end a 52-year war. 

Croatians began voting Sunday in a snap election whose outcome might prolong political uncertainty in the EU's newest member, which had shifted to the right under previous conservative governments.