World News Update, What you need to know

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is embarking on his first visit to Indonesia, looking to freshen up relations with Jakarta after a bruising year.

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YANGON - Myanmar's powerful army chief has congratulated Aung San Suu Kyi's party for "winning a majority" in landmark polls, agreeing to talks as her pro-democracy opposition appeared set for a landslide victory.

MARIANA - New evacuations have been ordered at the scene of Brazil's deadly iron ore mine dam burst as the chief executives of the mining giants that own the operation made a joint visit.

ISTANBUL - Eighteen migrants, among them at least seven children, have drowned after their boats sank off Turkey's Aegean coast while trying to make the short but perilous crossing to Greece, the latest fatalities in Europe's refugee crisis.

MIAMI - An eight-year-old American boy accused of beating to death a year-old baby while her mother was at a nightclub has been charged with murder, local media report.

GENEVA - World nations have struck a landmark deal on using satellites to track flights, which could prove key to preventing a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 in March 2014.

MOSCOW - New DNA tests on the remains of the last tsar Nicholas II have confirmed their authenticity, Russia says, after exhuming them in a bid to end a dispute with the Orthodox Church.