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BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro yesterday tipped as his running mate a controversial retired military general who said last year that a military coup was possible in the country.

CAIRO/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will suspend new trade and investment with Canada after that country’s foreign ministry urged Riyadh to release arrested civil rights activists, it said in a statement released to the official Saudi Press Agency yesterday.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greece replaced the chiefs of its police force and fire brigade yesterday after a public outcry over a devastating wildfire which killed at least 88 people on July 23.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Drones loaded with explosives detonated close to a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech on Saturday, but he and top government officials alongside him escaped unharmed from what Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez called an “attack” targeting the leftist leader.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – North Korea and the United States on Saturday sparred over an agreement reached at a landmark summit in June for the Asian country to end its nuclear program, as Washington called for maintaining sanctions pressure against Pyongyang, which in turn said it was alarmed by U.S.

HARARE (Reuters) – Twenty-seven members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) appeared in a Zimbabwe court facing public violence charges on Saturday after six people were killed in post-election protests that were met by a military crackdown.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Sporadic protests broke out in several cities in Iran for a fifth night on Saturday, a day after demonstrators attacked a Shi’ite seminary, according to Iranian news agencies and social media, as Iranians brace for a return of U.S.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged yesterday to provide nearly $300 million in new security funding for Southeast Asia, as China forges ahead with plans to bolster its engagement in the region.

 (Reuters) – Two of Mother Nature’s most potentially devastating forces – a major hurricane and an erupting volcano – appear headed for a close encounter on Hawaii’s Big Island next week, weather forecasters said yesterday.

BEIJING/SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – China proposed retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad will be the Brazilian leftist Workers Party’s presidential candidate if jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is barred from running in the October vote, a party source said yesterday.

HARARE, (Reuters) – President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged Zimbabweans to unite yesterday after he was declared the first elected head of state since Robert Mugabe’s removal from power, but the opposition leader insisted he had won and pledged to challenge the result.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.,  (Reuters) – An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted in trial testimony yesterday that she helped backdate documents and falsify financial records at Manafort and his business partner’s request to reduce his tax burden and help him qualify for loans.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Democratic National Committee warned party candidates running in November elections not to use devices made by Chinese telecommunications companies ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies because they pose a security risk, a Democratic source said yesterday.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former spy chief installed after Robert Mugabe’s removal in a coup in November, was elected yesterday after a poll marred by the deaths of six people in an army crackdown on opposition protests.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) yesterday approved the creation of a working group to seek a peaceful solution to the violent protests that have roiled Nicaragua since April, leaving more than 300 people dead.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security team said yesterday that Russia is behind “pervasive” attempts to interfere in upcoming U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Apple Inc yesterday became the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s all-powerful Constituent Assembly yesterday voted to legalize money exchange operations to relax the strict currency controls imposed by the social government that have throttled the oil-rich nation’s economy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation yesterday to impose stiff new sanctions on Russia and combat cyber crime, the latest effort by lawmakers to punish Moscow over interference in U.S.