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LONDON,  (Reuters) – Fighting back tears, Theresa May said yesterday she would quit after failing to deliver Brexit, setting up a contest that will install a new British prime minister who could pursue a cleaner break with the European Union.

ACARIGUA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Twenty-nine detainees were killed and 19 police officers were wounded in a confrontation in a cellblock in central Venezuela in what a state official called a failed escape attempt, but human rights groups described as a massacre.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is being investigated on suspicion of involvement in laundering illegal drug money as part of a wider probe into his 2010-14 administration, an international anti-corruption mission said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday announced the deployment of 1,500 troops to the Middle East, describing it as an effort to bolster defenses against Iran as it accused the country’s Revolutionary Guards of direct responsibility for this month’s tanker attacks.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from Congress yesterday to complete the sale of over $8 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A majority of judges in Brazil’s top court has voted to criminalise homophobia in a move welcomed by campaigners concerned about a rollback in gay rights and the murder of hundreds of LGBT+ people every year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Supreme Court yesterday blocked lower court rulings ordering Republican legislators in Michigan and Ohio to redraw U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will not be able to reverse the democratic transition that is taking place in his country, but the military will also need to support that change, Brazil’s foreign minister said yesterday.

ZURICH/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis yesterday won U.S. approval for its gene therapy Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of death in infants, and priced the one-time treatment at a record $2.125 million.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will not be able to reverse the democratic transition that is taking place in his country, but the military will also need to support that change, Brazil’s foreign minister said today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Fighting back tears, Theresa May said today she would quit, setting up a contest that will install a new British prime minister who could pursue a cleaner break with the European Union.

NEW DELHI/AYODHYA, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi scored a dramatic election victory yesterday, putting his Hindu nationalist party on course to increase its majority on a mandate of business-friendly policies and a tough stand on national security.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May was clinging to power yesterday after her final Brexit gambit backfired, overshadowing a European election that has shown a United Kingdom still riven over its divorce from the EU.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she wished President Donald Trump’s family or staff would conduct an “intervention” with him for the good of the United States after he threw what she called a temper tantrum at a meeting with Democratic congressional leaders a day earlier.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress has rebuffed President Jair Bolsonaro’s move to put decisions on indigenous land claims in the hands of the Ministry of Agriculture.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday accused the United States of seeking to destroy a food aid program that the government of the crisis-stricken OPEC nation says feeds some 6 million families.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information.

(Reuters) – Chile’s 12,000 square kilometer (4,633 square mile) Southern Patagonia Ice Field split in two and is likely to continue to fracture amid climate change, according to a team of Chilean scientists who were in the region in March.

NEW DELHI/AYODHYA, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to unite the country today after a big election win, with his party on course to increase its majority on a mandate of business-friendly policies and a tough stand on national security.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday abruptly cut short a White House meeting with Democratic lawmakers on infrastructure, then ripped into them over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that he is engaged in a cover-up and asserted that he could not work with them unless they dropped multiple investigations.