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BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany’s decision to ask the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country was an inevitable response to fresh allegations of U.S.

BAGHDAD/KIRKUK, (Reuters) – Kurdish forces seized two oilfields in northern Iraq and took over operations from a state-run oil company yesterday, while Kurdish politicians formally suspended their participation in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration warned lawmakers yesterday that U.S.

(Reuters) – A toddler thought to have been cured of HIV now has detectable levels of the virus in her blood, the child’s doctors and U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States must respond more aggressively to China’s territorial claims in Asia, an influential U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The government of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set aside $33 million of government money to help fund the construction of the world’s tallest statue, a project close to the newly elected leader’s heart.

HOUSTON, Texas, (Reuters) – A gunman shot six people to death, four of them children, in what appeared to be a domestic dispute in a Houston, Texas, suburb late yesterday then fled the scene before surrendering to police after a standoff, a police official said.

DALLAS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama rejected demands from Texas Governor Rick Perry and others that he visit the border where a child migrant crisis is unfolding and said his critics should get behind his request for $3.7 billion if they want to solve the problem.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Four years into the shale revolution, the U.S.

BERLIN/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – German politicians reacted angrily yesterday to news of a suspected U.S.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces found 53 corpses, blindfolded and handcuffed, south of Baghdad yesterday as Shi’ite and Kurdish leaders traded accusations over an Islamist insurgency raging in the country’s Sunni provinces.

NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for corruption during the critical years of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption has sown so much fear that many Chinese officials are doing anything to stay out of trouble – from dithering over approving big-ticket projects to seeking early retirement.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The United States warned yesterday that it would withdraw financial and security support from Afghanistan if anyone tried to take power illegally, as supporters of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah rallied in Kabul for a parallel government.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Fifty new cases of Ebola and 25 deaths have been reported in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since July 3, as the deadly virus spreads in families, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah’s camp rejected preliminary results of last month’s run-off election yesterday as a “coup” against the people, putting him on a dangerous collision course with his rival, Ashraf Ghani.

GAZA, (Reuters) – Hamas stepped up rocket fire at southern Israeli towns and Israel called up reserve troops yesterday in anticipation of a possible escalation of hostilities with the Islamist group that dominates the Gaza Strip.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A strong earthquake shook the border between Guatemala and Mexico yesterday, killing at least five people, including a newborn boy, damaging dozens of buildings and triggering landslides.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Eduard Shevardnadze, who as Soviet Foreign Minister helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War, died yesterday after a long illness.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States and Israel were playing “good cop, bad cop” to intimidate his country into making concessions on the nuclear dispute with the West.