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SEOUL, (Reuters) – The former Korean Air Lines executive who delayed a flight because she was unhappy with the way she was served macadamia nuts apologised yesterday over the incident, which fuelled outrage and ridicule in South Korea.

CURITIBA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors yesterday formally charged executives of six of the country’s largest engineering firms with forming a cartel to funnel kickbacks from state-run oil company Petrobras to the ruling political party and its allies.

WASHINGTON/OAKLAND, Calif., (Reuters) – Dozens of congressional staff staged a walkout yesterday to protest decisions by grand juries not to charge white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City.

LANGLEY, Va., (Reuters) – CIA Director John Brennan said yesterday some agency officers used “abhorrent” methods on detainees captured following the Sept.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The death toll following a mass drug overdose incident in a Venezuelan jail last month has jumped to 48 from 13, the government said yesterday.

PORT LOUIS, (Reuters) – Mauritius voters rejected plans to grant more powers to the president by handing an election victory to a coalition that opposed changing the constitution, electoral officials said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hailed as a major success in the U.S.

A crew member and two contractors died on Thursday when a fire broke out aboard a luxury cruise ship docked at the eastern Caribbean island of St.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong cleared most of the main pro-democracy protest site today as police hauled activists away, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations that have blocked key roads in the Chinese-controlled city.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Packing potatoes at his vegetable stand on a sun-baked street in Caracas’s hillside Catia slum, Jesus Jimenez fondly recounts voting for late president Hugo Chavez.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Oil prices tumbled as much as 5 percent yesterday, pushing U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA’s harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A “truth commission” investigating abuses during Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship called for the prosecution of former military officers and some private companies for their role in human rights atrocities, in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.

VERACRUZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Three Central American nations that have sent a flood of migrants to the United States are ready to provide $5 billion between them to match a sum Washington says may be needed to help solve the problem, Guatemala’s president said on Tuesday.

“My worship is first time I do something like this, please give me a chance,” were the words of Wazim Khan on Monday before Magistrate Ann McLennan sentenced him for stealing almost $2 million in valuables during a break and enter and larceny.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The CIA misled the White House and public about its torture of detainees after the Sept.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Congressional negotiators resolved policy disputes to reach a deal for a $1.1 trillion spending bill yesterday but still expected to need a stop-gap extension to avoid a U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has uncovered at least $3 million in cash hidden under the false bottom of a Ford truck that arrived on a Lebanese-flagged ship from Miami.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thousands of Ebola survivors with little to no risk of re-infection are critical to controlling the epidemic and training them has the potential to save thousands of lives and decrease the spread of the virus, experts said on Wednesday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot yesterday called for the replacement of state-controlled oil company Petrobras’ top management and punishment of everyone involved in a scheme to funnel kickbacks from contracts to politicians.