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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A raft of banks could face tough questions in the sweeping U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth set in motion the new government’s plans for an in-out referendum on staying in the European Union yesterday, but left open questions about when it will be and what changes to the EU the government wants beforehand.

LONDON, (Reuters) – With its two biggest victories in nearly a year in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State has energised its fighters, littered the streets of two cities with the bodies of its enemies and forced Washington to re-examine its strategy.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Nearly a year after embarking on a multi-million dollar quest to solve one of aviation’s greatest unsolved mysteries, authorities and search teams are being criticised over their approach to finding Flight MH370 in the remote southern Indian Ocean.

ASTANA, (Reuters) – International experts are investigating the sudden deaths of more than 100,000 endangered saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, officials said Wednesday, raising fears that a species that has been around since the Ice Age may be at risk of dying out.

(Reuters) – Nebraska became the first Republican-dominated state in more than 40 years to abolish capital punishment as legislators overrode the governor’s veto of a bill repealing the death penalty.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s plan to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation was dealt another setback yesterday when a U.S.

BUKIT WANG BURMA, Malaysia, (Reuters) – Malaysian police forensic teams, digging with hoes and shovels, yesterday began pulling out bodies from shallow graves found in abandoned jungle camps where an inter-governmental body said hundreds of victims of human traffickers may be buried.

BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Libya’s internationally recognised prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, said yesterday he had survived an assassination attempt by gunmen who opened fire as he was leaving a session of the anarchic country’s elected parliament.

BUKIT WANG BURMA, Malaysia, (Reuters) – Malaysian police forensic teams, digging with hoes and shovels, yesterday began pulling out bodies from shallow graves found in abandoned jungle camps where an inter-governmental body said hundreds of victims of human traffickers may be buried.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s plan to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation was dealt another setback yesterday when a U.S.

BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Libya’s internationally recognised prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, said yesterday he had survived an assassination attempt by gunmen who opened fire as he was leaving a session of the anarchic country’s elected parliament.

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Islamic State poured more fighters into Ramadi as security forces and Shi’ite paramilitaries prepared to try to retake the Iraqi city, while Washington scrambled yesterday to reassure Baghdad after a US official’s sharp criticism of Iraqi forces.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world’s rich donor nations must increase their overseas aid budgets and reverse the trend of declining funding for the poorest countries in order to meet a global goal of ending poverty by 2030, an advocacy group said today.

QUITO (Reuters) – A volcano perched atop one of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands erupted in the early hours of yesterday, the local authorities said, potentially threatening a unique species of pink iguanas.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Air France flight from Paris was escorted by two US F-15 fighter jets to New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport yesterday after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, the US military said.

MARKALA, Mali, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Malian farmer Balima Coulibaly and his fellow villagers watched with dread as 100,000 hectares of fertile land they have farmed for generations were handed to Libyan investors with no discussion about the impact on their impoverished communities.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – Some 71 people were arrested in Cleveland overnight during protests that flared after a police officer was found not guilty in the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and a woman following a high-speed car chase in 2012, police said yesterday.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – The people of Ireland backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum that marked a dramatic social shift in a traditionally Catholic country that only decriminalised homosexuality two decades ago.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the United States for blocking an Egyptian-led drive on a possible Middle East nuclear weapons ban at a major United Nations conference, an Israeli official said yesterday.