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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.

AMSTERDAM/NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Prosecutors dropped charges of crimes against humanity against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday, marking a failure for the International Criminal Court in the highest-profile case in its 11-year history.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – The reform communist Left party took power in a German state yesterday for the first time since reunification, ending a quarter century of conservative rule in Thuringia and raising the chance of a left-wing threat to Angela Merkel in the next federal vote.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – It will take more than the abrupt cancellation of a high-speed train deal with Mexico to derail China Railway Construction Corp’s ambitions to become a global force in transport projects and take on the likes of Siemens, Alstom and Bombardier.

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Global oil and gas exploration projects worth more than $150 billion are likely to be put on hold next year as plunging oil prices render them uneconomic, data shows, potentially curbing supplies by the end of the decade.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday promised a full investigation into the choking death of an unarmed black man by a white New York police officer as protests flared for a second night over a grand jury’s decision declining to bring criminal charges in the case.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said yesterday he expected the country’s mainstream parties to be able to cooperate to exclude the far right after a snap election in March if no bloc wins a majority.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Spending $25 per woman per year on full sexual health services would dramatically reduce mother and baby deaths and give women the choice of smaller, healthier and more productive families, a UN-backed report found on Thursday.

ALBANY, N.Y., (Reuters) – In the first case of its kind, a New York appeals court rejected yesterday an animal rights advocate’s bid to extend “legal personhood” to chimpanzees, saying the primates are incapable of bearing the responsibilities that come with having legal rights.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York City grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer who killed an unarmed black man with a chokehold sparked outrage and protests yesterday, and the U.S.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies today of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for growing strong, in an annual state of the union speech that seemed to outdo even his own recent strident nationalism.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s comptroller general opened cases yesterday against eight engineering conglomerates suspected of bribery and fraud in deals with Petrobras, holding them accountable for their role in a widening corruption scandal at the state-run oil company.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed yesterday for a “clear mandate” from voters in the early election he called, with opinion polls showing the right-wing leader on track for a fourth term.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Sweden called its first snap election for more than half a century in March after a far-right party helped defeat the centre-left minority government’s first budget in parliament yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Colombian government and leftist rebels will renew peace talks this month, reviving efforts to end five decades of war, officials said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Three women yesterday came together to speak publicly about their allegations that comedian Bill Cosby sexually abused and groped them decades ago, a day after Cosby was sued by a woman who said he molested her when she was a teenager in 1974.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has indicted hardline opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on charges that she took part in an alleged plot to kill President Nicolas Maduro, the state prosecutor’s office said yesterday.