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MADRID,  (Reuters) – The world must choose hope over surrender in the fight against climate change, U.N.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday accused Cuba and Venezuela of attempting to hijack democratic protests in Latin America, vowing that Washington would support countries trying to prevent unrest in the region from turning into riots.

SOCHI, Russia, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping today oversaw the launch of a landmark pipeline that will transport natural gas from Siberia to northeast China, an economic and political boost to ties between Moscow and Beijing.

VALETTA,  (Reuters) – Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, engulfed in crisis over the probe into a murdered journalist, announced yesterday he planned to step down, saying he would ask his ruling Labour Party to start choosing a new leader for the country next month.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House told Democratic lawmakers yesterday that U.S.

PARAMARIBO,  (Reuters) – President Desi Bouterse said he was victim of a “political game” when he returned to Suriname today after a court found him guilty of murder in absentia for the 1982 execution of 15 activists in the former Dutch colony.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong today, ending a rare lull in violence, as residents took to the streets chanting “revolution of our time” and “liberate Hong Kong”.

LONDON (Reuters) – The London Bridge attack pushed law and order towards the top of the British political agenda yesterday, with days to go before a snap election, after police said the assailant had previously been convicted of terrorism offences but freed early from prison.

VALETTA (Reuters) – One of Malta’s wealthiest men, Yorgen Fenech, was charged in a Valletta court yesterday with complicity to murder in the car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has arrested a citizen of Belize for allegedly colluding with people in the United States to meddle in the affairs of Hong Kong, the official Guangdong Communist Party newspaper reported yesterday, citing local authorities.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) – A fragment of wood reputed to be from the manger where Jesus was laid after his humble birth arrived in Bethlehem as a gift from the Vatican yesterday, kicking off Christmas season at the town revered as the place of Jesus’ birth.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Clothes should be cherished, re-worn and even passed on to the next generation, Anna Wintour, the influential editor of Vogue magazine said, calling for more sustainability in the fashion world and less of a throwaway culture.

OSLO (Reuters) – The sequel to Walt Disney Co’s 2013 hit animated musical “Frozen” is generating excitement among indigenous Sámi people in northern Europe, whose culture the movie has taken inspiration from.

VALETTA, (Reuters) – One of Malta’s wealthiest men, Yorgen Fenech, was charged in a Valletta court today with complicity to murder in the car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s human rights prosecutor on Friday indicted another former top military official for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the bloodiest phase of the Central American country’s 36-year civil war.

PARAMARIBO,  (Reuters) – A court in Suriname yesterday convicted President Desi Bouterse of murder for the execution of 15 opponents in 1982 following a coup to seize power, sentencing the man who has dominated the former Dutch colony’s recent history to 20 years in prison.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has told associates he plans to resign over the political and legal crisis stemming from the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Times of Malta reported yesterday.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation yesterday after the country’s senior Shi’ite Muslim cleric urged lawmakers to reconsider their support for a government rocked by weeks of deadly anti-establishment unrest.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British police yesterday shot dead a man wearing a fake suicide vest who stabbed two people to death in London and wounded three more before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders, in what the authorities called a terrorist attack.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today it would be “best” if U.S.