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ABUJA, (Reuters) – At least 21 people were killed when a suspected bomb tore through a crowded shopping district in the Nigerian capital Abuja during rush hour yesterday, police said, adding to the toll of hundreds killed in attacks this year.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled that police officers usually need a warrant before they can search the cellphone of an arrested suspect, a major decision in favor of privacy rights at a time of increasing concern over government encroachment in digital communications.

MADRID, (Reuters) – A Spanish court yesterday upheld corruption charges against Cristina de Borbon, sister of newly-crowned King Felipe VI, and her husband in one of the last steps before a trial that could cloud the monarchy’s bid to rebuild its reputation.

ARBIL, Iraq, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged leaders of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region yesterday to stand with Baghdad in the face of a Sunni insurgent onslaught that threatens to dismember the country.

MOSCOW/VIENNA, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin asked Russia’s upper house yesterday to revoke the right it had granted him to order a military intervention in Ukraine in defence of Russian-speakers there.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, was acquitted yesterday of orchestrating a campaign to hack into phones and bribe officials in a case that has shaken the British political establishment.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing utility customers up to $12 billion per year.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday promised “intense and sustained” US support for Iraq, but said the divided country would only survive if its leaders took urgent steps to bring it together.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s President Ollanta Humala replaced his foreign affairs, interior and transportation ministers yesterday in a surprise cabinet shake-up as his popularity sinks to new lows.

OSLO (Reuters) – Governments should set a five-year deadline to crack down on over-fishing and pollution or parts of the oceans may have to be declared off-limits to industrial fishing, an expert commission said today.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A senior United Nations official yesterday urged Israel to exercise restraint in its search for three missing teenagers it accuses the Hamas Islamist group of kidnapping, while warning the Security Council that violence in the region could escalate.

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Prominent Mormon activist Kate Kelly was excommunicated by her church yesterday for violating its “laws and order” after advocating for women’s ordination, a view that leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said amounted to apostasy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US first lady Michelle Obama will not go into politics after leaving the White House, she said yesterday, dismissing rumors she might follow in the footsteps of predecessor Hillary Clinton and run for the Senate after her husband leaves office.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – While Argentina notches victories in the World Cup, President Cristina Fernandez is grappling with a debt crisis and feels like a goalkeeper facing endless penalties and a biased referee.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – An Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is out of control and requires massive resources from governments and aid agencies to prevent it from spreading further, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said today.

LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A prominent cleric returned to Pakistan today to lead what he calls a peaceful revolution against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as his supporters fought pitched battles with police firing tear gas in the capital Islamabad.

ANBAR, Iraq, (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader accused the United States yesterday of trying to retake control of Iraq by exploiting sectarian rivalries, as Sunni insurgents drove towards Baghdad from new strongholds along the Syrian border.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. missile defense system managed by Boeing Co yesterday hit a simulated enemy missile over the Pacific in the first successful intercept test of the program since 2008, the U.S.

MOSCOW/KIEV, (Reuters) – Fighting flared between Ukrainian and pro-Moscow separatist forces, both sides reported yesterday, further straining a unilateral ceasefire declared by Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin pressed Kiev to talk to the rebels.

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – “Think Like A Man Too”, a sequel to the 2012 comedy based on Steve Harvey’s book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man”, collected $30 million in ticket sales to lead the weekend box office, outdistancing last weekend’s top film, “22 Jump Street”.