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NEW YORK/ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday played down the chances of a quick deal to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons as a delegation from Pyongyang headed to meet him with a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, suggesting a proposed summit may be back on.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The aluminium empire of Russian magnate Oleg Deripaska is in close contact with the U.S.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed and more than 200 injured yesterday in one of the worst days of violence since protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega began more than a month ago, police said on Thursday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – High-ranking officials of the United States and North Korea met in New York late yesterday in the first of two days of talks about the future of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme and a possible summit between U.S.

KIEV/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A dissident Russian journalist reported murdered in Kiev yesterday dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday during a televised briefing by Ukrainian state security about the killing, which they then said they had faked.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel flew to Caracas yesterday for his first foreign trip as head of state, a show of solidarity for Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, whose controversial re-election this month has drawn condemnation in the West.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A 72-hour strike by Brazilian oil workers halted refineries and rigs yestreday, union leaders said, a new blow to President Michel Temer on the heels of a trucker protest that has strangled Latin America’s largest economy for over a week.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was indicted yesterday on charges of rape and a criminal sexual act, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, the first case to emerge from a slew of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s main business lobby yesterday urged President Daniel Ortega to hold early elections to steer the country out of weeks of deadly protests that have seriously undermined the former Marxist guerrilla leader’s long hold on power.

KIEV/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A dissident Russian journalist who was reported murdered in Kiev dramatically reappeared alive today in the middle of a televised briefing about his own killing by the Ukrainian state security service.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – More than 50 senior Taliban commanders were killed in an artillery strike on a meeting in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, a U.S.

(Reuters Health) – Hurricane Maria claimed the lives of 4,645 people in Puerto Rico last year and not the 64 long pegged by the island’s government as the official death toll, according to a survey of thousands of residents by a research team led by Harvard University.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s ABC network yesterday swiftly canceled the popular U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican business leaders called out the government yesterday over a recent wave of criminal activity that has terrorized large swaths of Latin America’s second-largest economy and led some prominent firms to cut back operations.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – A thuggish response to weeks of protests has eroded carefully constructed pillars of support in the Church, military and business world for Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, emboldening calls for the ouster of the former Marxist guerrilla who has dominated politics for decades.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan yesterday appointed former chief justice Nasir-Ul-Mulk as caretaker prime minister until a general election on July 25 which is expected to usher in the second-ever democratic transition in the nuclear armed nation of 208 million people.

THOOTHUKUDI, India,  (Reuters) – An Indian state yesterday ordered the permanent closure of a copper smelter controlled by London-listed Vedanta Resources after 13 people protesting to demand its shutdown on environmental concerns were killed last week.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France yesterday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France yesterday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Italy’s president set the country on a path to fresh elections yesterday, appointing a former International Monetary Fund official as interim prime minister with the task of planning for snap polls and passing the next budget.