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MONCTON, New Brunswick, (Reuters) – A 24-year-old man was charged with murder yesterday in the slayings of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers during a shooting spree in the eastern Canadian city of Moncton.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – The heads of El Salvador’s main street gangs urged the country’s new president Salvador Sanchez Ceren to tackle criminals behind a recent wave of killings, declaring themselves blameless on Thursday for the violence gripping the Central American nation.

    HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe yesterday branded his information minister a “devil incarnate”, accusing him of appointing editors of state-owned newspapers who were sympathetic to the opposition.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hopes to accept an invitation from President Barack Obama to visit Washington this fall, an Indian government source said yesterday, signalling a new start in ties for a leader once denied a U.S.

MONCTON, New Brunswick, (Reuters) – Canadian police mounted a massive hunt yesterday for a 24-year-old man armed with high-powered weapons who they suspect shot dead three police officers and wounded two more in the eastern city of Moncton.

Yemen says 500 al Qaeda militants, 40 soldiers killed in campaign SANAA, (Reuters) – Five hundred al Qaeda militants and 40 soldiers have been killed since the military launched an offensive against the group in April, the army said yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and rival Oscar Ivan Zuluaga were neck-and-neck in a Gallup poll of voters published yesterday, before a June 15 run-off election centered on how to end 50 years of civil war.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru is dropping its goal of destroying most coca fields in a lawless jungle region to avoid conflicts with farmers backed by Shining Path rebels, the interior minister said yesterday.

BRUSSELS/PARIS, (Reuters) – The world’s leading industrialised nations gave their backing yesterday to a new global deal on climate change in 2015 after promises from the United States at the start of the week galvanised flagging momentum.

TORONTO/OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian police extended a manhunt in the city of Moncton today for a man carrying a rifle and wearing camouflage clothes, a day after three police officers were shot dead and two more were wounded.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., (Reuters) – The last of 29 Navajo Americans who developed an unbreakable code that helped Allied forces win the second World War died in New Mexico yesterday of kidney failure at the age of 93.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A dazed Bowe Bergdahl is led by two militants, one carrying a makeshift white flag on a stick, to a Blackhawk helicopter in eastern Afghanistan ending his five years’ in captivity, a video released by the Taliban showed yesterday.

JUBA, (Reuters) – China is swapping its reserved diplomacy for a hands-on approach to help resolve a more than five-month-old rebellion in South Sudan that threatens Beijing’s oil investments.

ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – Two mosquito-borne diseases – dengue fever and chikungunya – are posing a serious threat to Florida and residents should take steps to control mosquito populations to try to limit the danger, a leading health expert said yesterday.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s biggest city was in lockdown for a second day yesterday, with shops and markets closed and people staying home for fear of violence following the arrest in London of one of the country’s most feared men.

PORTLAND, Ore., (Reuters) – An Oregon school district plans to offer condoms to students starting in sixth grade as part of an updated sex education policy aimed at decreasing teen pregnancy, sparking debate over whether 11-year-olds are too young for such a program.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Prostitutes in Canada will generally be allowed to sell their services, but for the first time it will be a crime to buy sex from them under a government bill introduced yesterday to replace legislation the Supreme Court struck down in December.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s former navy chief, captured in a high-profile drug sting on the West African coast, has secretly pleaded guilty ahead of a trial on charges he conspired to import narcotics into the United States, court sources said yesterday.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida judge accused of punching an assistant public defender after telling him “stop pissing me off” is stepping down temporarily for anger management counseling.

WASHINGTON/WARSAW, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama defended yesterday the prisoner swap deal that freed a U.S.