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TUNIS, (Reuters) – Tunisia’s health minister Abdel-Raouf El-Sherif resigned yesterday after 11 babies mysteriously died within 24 hours in a hospital in the capital, state news agency TAP said.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Fourteen people were killed in a plane crash in the Colombian plains province of Meta yesterday, the country’s civil aviation agency said.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government said yesterday it would release prisoners rounded up in months of protests and implement electoral reforms, as talks continue with the opposition to end the country’s worst political crisis in three decades.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition activists scuffled with police and troops on Saturday morning in the run-up to a rally intended to keep up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, as electricity remained intermittent after the country’s worst blackout in decades.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s Federal Court yesterday rejected a bid by SNC-Lavalin Group Inc to challenge prosecutors who insist the construction company must face trial on charges of corruption.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities yesterday announced criminal charges against the alleged leaders of an multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme involving the sale of a fraudulent cryptocurrency, OneCoin.

HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – Finland’s coalition government resigned yesterday a month ahead of a general election, saying it could not deliver on a healthcare reform package that is widely seen as crucial to securing long-term government finances.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – A grand jury in Chicago has returned a 16-count felony indictment against television actor Jussie Smollett, accusing him of falsely reporting to police that he was the victim of a hate-crime assault, according to court documents made public yesterday.

(Reuters) – Senator Elizabeth Warren vowed yesterday to break up Amazon.com

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian cricketers wore army camouflage-style caps in a match with Australia on Friday in solidarity with Indian paramilitary police killed in a militant attack by a Pakistan-based group and in an unusually strong display of patriotic fervour in sport.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday denied interfering in Canada’s judicial system as he sought to defuse a crisis threatening his political future, and offered no apology, asserting only that lessons had been learned.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced yesterday by a U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right president yesterday described the country’s armed forces, which led the country under a military dictatorship for over two decades, as the ultimate arbiters of democracy.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Three dozen countries, including all 28 EU members, called on Saudi Arabia yesterday to release 10 activists and cooperate with a U.N.-led

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States has indicted the daughter of the late president of Uzbekistan on corruption charges for allegedly using her official position to solicit more than $865 million in bribes from three telecommunications companies, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. Appeals Court ruled yesterday that immigrants ordered deported by U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department indicted Mozambique’s former finance minister, along with eight executives, officials and investment bankers, over their alleged roles in a $2 billion fraud and money laundering scheme, the department said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A major power outage hit crisis-stricken Venezuela yesterday, according to Reuters witnesses, a problem the government of President Nicolas Maduro quickly blamed on “sabotage” at a hydroelectric dam that provides much of the country’s power.Electricity

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Three dozen countries, including all 28 EU members, called on Saudi Arabia on Thursday to release 10 activists and cooperate with a U.N.-led

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – A former top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denied yesterday inappropriately pressuring a Cabinet member to help a major company as Trudeau planned to address a scandal that is threatening his prospects in an October election.