French President Francois Hollande congratulated Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May on her appointment Wednesday and urged her to quickly begin talks on the country's divorce from the EU, the Elysee Palace said.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced the deployment of 47 troops to crisis-ridden South Sudan to protect the US embassy and its staff.

"Although equipped for combat, these additional personnel are deployed for the purpose of protecting US citizens and property," Obama wrote in a letter to Congress released by the White House.

China warned Thursday of a "decisive response" to provocations in the South China Sea, as it faced mounting pressure to accept an international tribunal's ruling against its claims to most of the strategically vital waters.

Theresa May came under immediate pressure Thursday on her first full day as Britain's new prime minister after a series of surprise appointments to her cabinet, including the gaffe-prone Boris Johnson as foreign minister.

Donald Trump called Wednesday for the resignation of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, charging that the 83-year-old judge's "mind is shot" after she branded him a "faker."

It is exceptional for a US Supreme Court justice to speak openly about politics and their political preferences.

Many Republicans still think it's unlikely that Donald Trump will defeat Hillary Clinton in November and win the presidency.

So, they are looking to salvage what they can on Election Day -- the majority in both houses of Congress, they hope -- and then look ahead to the next race for the White House in 2020.

Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff could still wriggle out of a looming impeachment vote, her ally and predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday.

Lula, Brazil's most prominent leftist leader, told Radio Jornal that Rousseff's case is not hopeless, despite months of mounting pressure on her to be removed from office.

Posters begging Pakistan's powerful army chief to launch a coup appeared in major cities including the capital Islamabad overnight, raising eyebrows in a country that has been ruled by the military for more than half its history.

President Barack Obama insisted on Tuesday that America is not as divided as it seems by race and politics as he eulogized five Dallas police officers slain in an ambush.

"I know that Americans are struggling right now with what we witnessed in the past week," Obama told a memorial service in the Texas city.

France on Wednesday said it had closed its embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara and the consulate in Istanbul until further notice for security reasons after canceling events to mark the July 14 Bastille Day holiday.