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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is imposing new sanctions on Cuba over its human rights record and its support for Venezuela’s government, the U.S.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean officials shut down the metro system in Santiago yesterday after demonstrators protesting recent fare hikes took to the streets and attacked subway stops, leaving widespread damage across the capital city of nearly 6 million people.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is imposing new sanctions on Cuba over its human rights record and its support for Venezuela’s government, the U.S.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China has banned the bulk shipment of black clothing and other items popularly used by Hong Kong protesters to the city, staff at Chinese courier firms said, as authorities grapple with often violent anti-government protests that have gripped the city.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s withholding of $391 million in military aid to Ukraine was linked to his request that the Ukrainians look into a claim – debunked as a conspiracy theory – about the 2016 U.S.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders unanimously backed a new Brexit deal with Britain yesterday, leaving Prime Minister Boris Johnson facing a battle to secure the UK parliament’s backing for the agreement if he is to take Britain out of Europe on Oct.

MAPUTO, (Reuters) – A European Union observer mission to Mozambique’s election raised the alarm yesterday over unfair conditions and unjustified use of state resources by the ruling party, as well as widespread violence.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Demonstrators and police clashed in Lebanon yesterday as thousands of people rallied against the government’s handling of an economic crisis, in one of the biggest protests the country has seen in years.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Britain clinched an eleventh-hour Brexit deal with the EU today, more than three years after Britons voted in a referendum to leave the bloc, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson still faces a knife-edge vote in parliament to get it approved.

WASHINGTON/ANKARA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he had no problem if Russia helped Syria in a conflict with NATO ally Turkey and rejected criticism of his withdrawal of U.S.

NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenya’s opened a $1.5 billion Chinese-built railway line linking Nairobi to Naivasha yesterday, despite delays in building an industrial park in the Rift Valley town to encourage freight.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm at the centre of the “Panama Papers” scandal, has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the video streaming heavyweight of defamation in a new movie based on the case and seeking to stop its immanent release.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The parents of slain gay Wyoming man Matthew Shepard blasted U.S.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders’ two-day summit in Brussels starting today will be dominated by last-gasp efforts to seal a deal on Britain’s exit from the bloc despite a raft of other pressing issues, from the crisis in the Middle East to the bloc’s budget.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam had to abandon her policy speech because of jeering lawmakers today but later offered no direct olive branch to pro-democracy protesters, hoping instead to ease resentment by building more public housing.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said yesterday they will not cooperate with a U.S.

MANBIJ, Syria, (Reuters) – Turkey vowed to press ahead with its offensive in northern Syria yesterday despite U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A gunfight between security forces and armed civilians in Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero killed 15 people yesterday, authorities said, the second mass killing to shake the country in as many days.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A group of Russian journalists who investigated the activities of a secretive group of Russian mercenaries in Africa and the Middle East have been subject to a campaign of physical threats and harassment, their editor-in-chief said.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – An Indonesian unit of management consultants McKinsey & Company has been appointed to conduct a feasibility study on moving the capital from the crowded, flood-prone city of Jakarta on Java island to the forested island of Borneo, an official said.