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SANAA/ADEN, (Reuters) – Suicide bombers killed at least 137 worshippers and wounded hundreds more during Friday prayers at two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, in coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers suspended negotiations on a nuclear agreement and were set to meet again next week to break a deadlock over sensitive atomic research and lifting of sanctions, Western officials said yesterday.

DAMASAK, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Soldiers from Niger and Chad who liberated the Nigerian town of Damasak from Boko Haram militants have discovered the bodies of at least 70 people, many with their throats slit, scattered under a bridge, a Reuters witness said.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Ten people were killed in a gunfight in western Mexico when suspected gang members ambushed a police convoy in one of the deadliest attacks on security forces since Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto took office in December 2012.

SANAA/ADEN, (Reuters) – Suicide bombers in the Yemeni capital Sanaa blew themselves up during Friday prayers at two mosques used by supporters of Shi’ite rebels, killing 126 people and wounding 260, medical sources said, in the country’s deadliest militant attack in years.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan investigators have located more than $2 billion that was secretly transferred to accounts in Dubai by figures close to the administration of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, the government said yesterday.

ADEN, (Reuters) – An unidentified warplane attacked the presidential palace in Aden day after rival forces fought the worst clashes in years in Yemen’s second city, an official and residents said, in a sharp escalation of the country’s months-long conflict.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Six world powers are unlikely to reach a framework agreement with Iran on its nuclear work in the coming days as the sides are still far apart on key issues, a senior European negotiator said yesterday, blaming Tehran for failing to compromise.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and leaders of the key EU institutions were drafting a joint statement on Greece’s debt crisis at overnight talks in Brussels, EU and Greek diplomats said last night.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Geneva’s public prosecutor will send $380 million confiscated from the family of Nigeria’s former military ruler Sani Abacha to Nigeria and closed a 16-year investigation into his funds, the prosecutor’s office said.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Former conservative Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, who led the country from 1975 to 1983, has died, his office said in a statement yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia could invest as much as A$3 billion ($2.3 billion) to join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a local newspaper said yesterday, citing leaked details of high-level ministerial discussions.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Paul McCartney will induct his former Beatles band mate Ringo Starr into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month at a ceremony in Cleveland, organizers said on Wednesday.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed Tunisia’s national museum yesterday, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that had largely escaped the region’s “Arab Spring” turmoil.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged yesterday to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right and drew an immediate rebuke from the White House.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty with Georgia’s rebel South Ossetia region yesterday that almost completely integrates it with Russia, alarming Georgia and the West a year after Moscow took over Crimea.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff accepted the resignation of Education Minister Cid Gomes yesterday after her allies in Congress demanded that he quit for calling them “extortionists.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – King Richard III, the medieval English monarch whose remains were found under a car park three years ago, will be reburied next week nearly 530 years after he was slain in battle and dumped in an humble grave.

ATHENS/BERLIN, (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras lambasted European partners yesterday for criticising a new anti-poverty law hours before it was voted on, saying it was the euro zone rather than Athens that must stop “unilateral actions” and keep its word.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s election after exit polls showed he had erased his centre-left rivals’ lead with a hard rightward shift in which he abandoned a commitment to negotiate a Palestinian state.