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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, (Reuters) – New anti-terror legislation in Canada would make it a crime for anyone to call for attacks on the country and give a much larger role to the government’s main spy agency.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greece’s new leftist government opened talks on its bailout with European partners yesterday by flatly refusing to extend the programme or to cooperate with the international inspectors overseeing it.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are scheduled to attend the U.S.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Plunged into chaos just hours after entering this world, nine babies found alive after a gas blast in a Mexican maternity hospital underwent DNA tests yesterday in a bid to reunite them with their parents.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was arrested for murder yesterday in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed one person near Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Eight Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation yesterday to repeal all restrictions on U.S.

    WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget on Monday will include $1 billion in new aid for Central America as part of a broad effort to address the unaccompanied child migration crisis, the White House said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will begin accepting applications on Feb.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is planning an investigation into accusations of human rights abuses in the final stages of a 26-year civil war amid international frustration at the failure to look into numerous civilian deaths, a government spokesman said late on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fired the country’s highest ranking diplomat and replaced her with India’s ambassador to the United States, a day after a successful visit by U.S.

ISMAILIA, Egypt, (Reuters) – Islamic State’s Egypt wing claimed a series of attacks that killed at least 27 security personnel yesterday in some of the worst anti-government violence in months, after commemorations around the anniversary of the 2011 uprising turned deadly in the past week.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The number of new confirmed Ebola cases totalled 99 in the week to Jan.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, (Reuters) – Officials in Puerto Rico and Colombia arrested 17 members of an alleged drug ring yesterday accused of money laundering and smuggling cocaine from Venezuela to the United States.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s president has reinstated a former Chief Justice who was sacked by defeated leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, saying the removal of Shirani Bandaranayake had been illegal, state media said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – First results from a human trial of an Ebola vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline show it is safe and generates an immune response, scientists said on Wednesday, but larger trials are needed to see if it protects and if a booster is needed.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s electronic spy agency has been intercepting and analyzing data on up to 15 million file downloads daily as part of a global surveillance program, according to a report published yesterday.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Billion-dollar investments in basic transport and electricity in developing nations are among the best ways to curb hunger by 2030 since a quarter of all food is now wasted after harvest, according to a report issued yesterday.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Leaders of El Salvador’s main street gangs on Tuesday urged the government to begin a dialogue to reduce violence and tone down its tough stance against their members after the vice president said police could open fire on them if necessary.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The number of children in the United States relying on food stamps for a meal spiked to 16 million last year, according federal data, signaling a lopsided economic recovery in which lower income families are still lagging behind.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – After nearly four years of legislative wrangling, legislators in socially-conservative Chile yesterday gave the green light to civil unions for same-sex and unmarried heterosexual couples.