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APAA, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The landscape is bucolic: shoulder-high grass, patches of woodland and the occasional homestead, all sloping down to the east bank of Uganda’s River Nile.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Milky Way, home to our sun and billions of other stars, merged with another smaller galaxy in a colossal cosmic collision roughly 10 billion years ago, scientists said yesterday based on data from the Gaia space observatory.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Jean Michel Lapin resigned yesterday, according to a high-ranking government official who asked not to be named, presenting a shakeup at the highest levels of government in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenyan Finance Minister Henry Rotich was arrested today on suspicion of corruption related to the construction of two dams.

DUBAI/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain was weighing its next moves in the Gulf tanker crisis yesterday, with few good options apparent as a recording emerged showing that the Iranian military defied a British warship when it boarded and seized a ship three days ago.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in running clashes with protesters late yesterday amid chaotic scenes as anger over an extradition bill morphs into a fresh front against what many see as a broader erosion of freedoms by Beijing.

MEXICO CITY/SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – Mexico said yesterday it averted the so-called “safe third country” negotiations with the United States it desperately wanted to avoid after U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – China will be able to place armed forces at a Cambodian naval base under a secret agreement the two nations have reached, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s governor on Sunday said he would not seek re-election next year but refused to resign as the island braced for more protests by demonstrators demanding he step down over leaked chat messages.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The top Democrat on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said today he believes there is “substantial evidence” that President Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors, and he plans to ask former Special Counsel Robert Mueller to present those facts at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in running clashes with protesters late today amid chaotic scenes as anger over an extradition bill morphs into a fresh front against what many see as a broader erosion of freedoms by Beijing.

GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – Britain yesterday denounced the Iranian seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a “hostile act,” rejecting Tehran’s explanation that it had seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident.

MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A gay man in the tiny Caribbean nation of Dominica filed a legal claim challenging its laws that ban gay sex and punish same-sex relations with prison terms and psychiatric confinement, a Canada-based rights group said on Friday.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Panama yesterday became the first Central American nation to ban single-use plastic bags to try to curb pollution on its beaches and help tackle what the United Nations has identified as one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges.

An estimated 820 million people did not have enough to eat in 2018, which is up from 811 million in the previous year and underscores the immense challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of Zero Hunger by 2030, according to a new edition of the annual The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, which was released last Monday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Joe Biden, a former U.S. vice president and Democratic presidential candidate, compared Republican President Donald Trump yesterday to the late George Wallace, a prominent supporter of racial segregation.

(Reuters) – Several U.S. Democratic presidential candidates and lawmakers on Friday demanded Puerto Rico’s governor step down over offensive chat messages, as thousands on the Caribbean island staged a seventh day of protests to seek his resignation.

DUBAI/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Iran said it had seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday but denied Washington’s assertion that the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday stepped up its response following the death of a Venezuelan navy captain, sanctioning four top officials in Venezuela’s military counterintelligence agency, the U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa suffered two major setbacks yesterday, when he was accused of misleading parliament and his predecessor Jacob Zuma won significant concessions from a corruption inquiry.