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BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – The Argentine Navy submarine that went missing a year ago off the country’s Atlantic Coast was found by a private company involved in what had been a massive search for the vessel and its 44-member crew, the defense ministry said in a news conference yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of the most prominent Brexiteer in her government yesterday as she fought to save a draft European Union divorce deal that has stirred up a plot to force her out of her job.

PARADISE, Calif.,  (Reuters) – Recovery teams with cadaver dogs pressed on with their search for more victims in a flame-ravaged northern California town yesterday as authorities sought clues to the fate of more than 1,000 people reported missing in the deadliest wildfire in state history.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, complicating President Donald Trump’s efforts to preserve ties with a key U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday said he had “very easily” completed his written answers for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Same-sex couples in Costa Rica will have the right to get married by mid-2020, the nation’s constitutional court has ruled, a first for socially conservative Central America.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday ordered the White House to temporarily restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass, which was revoked after a contentious news conference last week with President Donald Trump.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament descended into chaos for a second day yesterday as lawmakers supporting newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa threw books, chili paste and water bottles at the speaker to try to disrupt a second no-confidence motion.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament descended into chaos for a second day today  as lawmakers supporting newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa threw books, chili paste and water bottles at the Speaker to try to disrupt a second no-confidence motion.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to fight for her draft divorce deal with the European Union yesterday after the resignation of her Brexit secretary and other ministers put her strategy and her job in peril.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka appeared to be politically rudderless yesterday as the speaker of parliament declared there was no functioning prime minister or cabinet after a no-confidence vote the previous day.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – Florida election officials yesterday ordered a hand recount of ballots in the closely fought U.S.

WASHINGTON/RIYADH,  (Reuters) – The United States imposed economic sanctions on 17 Saudi officials yesterday for their role in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor sought the death penalty for five suspects in the murder.

NAIROBI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Foreign donors should freeze funding to Tanzania to press the government to scrap policies violating the rights of girls and sexual minorities, campaigners said yesterday, a day after the World Bank and Denmark said they were withholding aid.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Mira Ricardel, the White House deputy national security adviser, was forced out of her job on Wednesday after President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, said Ricardel did not deserve the honor of working for her husband.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of her senior ministers for a draft European Union divorce deal yesterday, freeing her to tackle the much more perilous struggle of getting parliament to approve the agreement.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a no-confidence motion against newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday, presenting a standoff with the opposition and throwing the country deeper into turmoil.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro chose an admirer of U.S.

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – A probe by the Nigerian Senate into whether state oil firm NNPC improperly withdrew money has expanded with the amount under investigation doubling to over $2.2 billion, a committee said yesterday.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – A team of archaeologists in Bolivia said they have discovered tombs containing over a hundred bundles of artifacts and human remains dating more than 500 years old that belonged to an indigenous civilization that once inhabited the region.