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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., (Reuters) – In a stinging defeat that could accelerate the decades-long decline of the United Auto Workers, Volkswagen AG workers voted against union representation at a Chattanooga, Tennessee plant, which had been seen as organized labor’s best chance to expand in the U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government kept dozens of student protesters behind bars yesterday as unrest still rumbled across Venezuela following this week’s violence at political rallies that killed three.

PARIS/UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – France said yesterday it plans to send another 400 troops to help combat a crisis in the Central African Republic as U.N.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Freedom of expression is under threat in India, publisher Penguin Books India said yesterday, adding that it had little choice but to withdraw from sale a controversial book on Hinduism by a U.S.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal resigned as chief minister of Delhi yesterday, frustrated by obstacles put in the way of an anti-corruption bill, and immediately proposed fresh municipal elections for India’s capital.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – More than 76,000 people fled their homes and flights were grounded across most of Indonesia’s densely populated island of Java yesterday after a volcanic eruption sent a huge plume of ash and sand 17 km (10 miles) into the air.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – You may have heard of “Dracula vs. Frankenstein,” “Freddy vs.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s parliament erupted in mayhem yesterday when a legislator fired pepper spray in the lower house in protest against a bill on a new state.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The Colombian government and FARC guerrilla negotiators said yesterday that they had made progress toward an agreement on combating illegal drug trafficking, a sign that peace talks were making headway before elections.

MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – The United States and Europe need a new strategy in the war on drugs and should look at alternatives such as the regulated sale of marijuana, says Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, whose country recently legalized the production and sale of cannabis.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s parliament erupted in mayhem today when a legislator fired pepper spray in the lower house in protest against a bill on a new state.

PANAMA/MADRID,  (Reuters) – The Panama Canal Authority said yesterday it had reached an initial agreement to resolve a weeks-long dispute over cost overruns on a project to widen the 100-year-old waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – Gunmen from Islamist sect Boko Haram killed 51 people in an attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said on Wednesday, in a region where President Goodluck Jonathan’s troops are struggling to contain its insurgency.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China and Taiwan, at odds for more than six decades, agreed at historic talks yesterday to set up representative offices as early as possible, though sensitive political issues like a formal peace treaty were not up for discussion.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved a one-year extension of federal borrowing authority yesterday after Republicans caved into President Barack Obama’s demands to allow a debt limit increase without any conditions.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A strong majority of Americans – and an even greater percentage of Floridians – support normalizing relations with Cuba, according to a poll released yesterday by the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank.

WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it would take India to the World Trade Organisation to gain a bigger foothold for US manufacturers in its fast-growing solar products market, adding another irritant to an already strained relationship.

TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A Mexican citizen who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 2010 shooting death of a US Border Patrol agent in a late-night gun battle near the Arizona border was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in federal prison.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A former Guatemalan army commander convicted of covering up his role in a massacre during that country’s bloody civil war in order to gain US citizenship was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union agreed yesterday to launch negotiations with Cuba to increase trade, investment and dialogue on human rights in its most significant diplomatic shift since Brussels lifted sanctions on the communist-ruled country in 2008.