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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.

BOSTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A powerful blizzard struck Boston and surrounding New England yesterday, leaving some 4.5 million people grappling with as much as three feet of snow and coastal flooding but sparing New York City residents who had braced for a significant blast.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A “life-threatening” blizzard barreled into the U.S.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – US President  Barack  Obama ended a landmark day in India yesterday with a pledge of $4 billion in investments and loans, seeking to release what he called the “untapped potential” of a business and strategic partnership between the world’s largest democracies.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department has been secretly gathering and storing hundreds of millions of records about motorists in an effort to build a national database that tracks the movement of vehicles across the country, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez yesterday announced plans to dissolve the country’s intelligence agency amid suspicions rogue agents were behind the murky death of a state prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre.