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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The CIA routinely misled the White House and Congress over its harsh interrogation program for terrorism suspects and its methods, which included waterboarding, were more brutal than the agency acknowledged, a Senate report said on Tuesday.

GENEVA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Divisions among the veto-wielding powers of the UN Security Council are harming the world’s children and sowing the seeds of future conflicts, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – A South African court cleared British businessman Shrien Dewani yesterday of charges that he paid hitmen to kill his wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agency’s anti-terror tactics, sources familiar with the document said.

LIMA (Reuters) – Projected global warming this century has slowed but is still at a severe rate after promises by China, the United States and the European Union to limit greenhouse gas emissions, a scientific study showed yesterday.

MARYLAND (Reuters) – An executive jet crashed into a Maryland house yesterday, killing all three people aboard the plane and a mother and two children inside the house, a fire official said.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – A South African court cleared British businessman Shrien Dewani today of charges that he paid hitmen to kill his wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities yesterday said that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers who were abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members.

SEOUL/BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Pyongyang government’s state-run media said the cyber attack on Sony’s Hollywood studio may have been the work of pro-North Korean supporters in a report yesterday that dismissed charges that the country itself was to blame as “wild rumor.”

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Six men held for more than a decade at the U.S.

WASHINGTON/KUWAIT CITY, (Reuters) – Despite three failed raids to free U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Six men held for more than a decade at the U.S.

WASHINGTON/SANAA (Reuters) – It could have been something as simple as a barking dog that alerted the al Qaeda guards as US special operations forces approached the compound just after midnight.

KABUL (Reuters) – The United States will keep up to 1,000 more soldiers than previously planned in Afghanistan into next year, outgoing U.S.

HARARE (Reuters) – Ninety-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe promoted his wife to the top ranks of his ZANU-PF party on Saturday but delayed filling vacant senior posts, prolonging anxiety over his lack of successor.

MANILA (Reuters) – A powerful typhoon roared into the eastern Philippines yesterday, bringing lashing rain and strong winds that felled trees, ripped off tin roofs and toppled power lines in areas still bearing the scars of a super typhoon 13 months ago.

SANAA, (Reuters) – A U.S. journalist and a South African teacher held by al Qaeda militants in Yemen were killed during a rescue attempt by U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets of New York yesterday in a third day of demonstrations against police violence, even as prosecutors said they would consider charges against an officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in November.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have arrested former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang and expelled him from the ruling Communist Party, accusing him of crimes ranging from accepting bribes to leaking state secrets and setting the stage for his trial.

FRANKFURT/LONDON/PARIS, (Reuters) – Regulators in France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg are suspending the marketing approval of 25 generic drugs due to concerns over the quality of data from clinical trials conducted by India’s GVK Biosciences, French watchdog ANSM said yesterday.