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RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian federal police launched a corruption probe today to investigate the head of President Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing Social Liberal Party (PSL) Luciano Bivar, a police source told Reuters.

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Turkey yesterday and demanded the NATO ally stop a military incursion in northeast Syria that is rapidly reshaping the battlefield of the world’s deadliest ongoing war.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former Russia adviser testified for more than nine hours yesterday behind closed doors, the latest witness summoned in the impeachment inquiry against the U.S.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – The largest ever task force assembled to fight organized crime in Asia has identified a long-time drug trafficker, a China-born Canadian national, as the suspected kingpin of a crime syndicate that police say dominates the $70 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.

MADRID/BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Spain’s Supreme Court yesterday jailed nine Catalan separatist leaders for between nine and 13 years for their role in a failed independence bid, a decision that triggered mass protests in the region and left the future course of the dispute uncertain.

(Reuters) – A white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was jailed on murder charges yesterday in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old black woman who was babysitting inside her home, the police department said.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Supreme Court today sentenced nine separatist leaders from Catalonia to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in a failed independence bid, triggering protests across the region.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean police battled masked men who launched homemade projectiles at them in downtown Quito yesterday, as protesters defied a curfew that was imposed by President Lenin Moreno in a bid to quell anti-austerity unrest.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Kais Saied thronged the grand boulevards of central Tunis in celebration late yesterday after two exit polls said he was elected by a landslide.

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it will withdraw its remaining 1,000 troops from northern Syria in the face of an expanding Turkish offensive while Syria’s army struck a deal with Kurdish forces to redeploy along its border with Turkey, both major victories for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Thousands of Haitians packed the streets in Port-Au-Prince yesterday to call for President Jovenel Moise’s resignation, singing and dancing in a carnival-like protest led by artists after weeks of intensifying anti-government demonstrations.

NAGANO, Japan, (Reuters) – Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers yesterday to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.”

QUITO (Reuters) – An indigenous group in Ecuador that has led protests for more than a week against a law that ended fuel subsidies said yesterday it has accepted direct talks with President Lenin Moreno, the first sign of a possible breakthrough in the dispute.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain remains a long way from agreeing a final Brexit deal and the next few days will be critical if it is to agree departure terms with the European Union, a Downing Street source said yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities yesterday denied Guatemala’s president-elect Alejandro Giammattei entry into Venezuela, where he was scheduled to meet with opposition leader Juan Guaido.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States and China agreed yesterday to the first phase of a deal to end a trade war, prompting President Donald Trump to suspend a threatened tariff hike, but officials said the agreement had to be put on paper and more work was required to get it finalized.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for his peacemaking efforts which ended two decades of hostility with longtime enemy Eritrea.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The killing of a journalist who had closely covered Haiti’s political and economic crisis fueled the anger of protesters yesterday, as they clashed with police and pressed calls for the president of the impoverished nation to resign.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Hopes for a negotiated end to the worst unrest in Ecuador in at least a decade dimmed yesterday as clashes between police and anti-austerity protesters continued for a ninth day in the highland capital Quito.