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SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A project bringing together thousands of small farmers in western Kenya has become the first to earn carbon credits using a new sustainable farming accounting system, the World Bank said yesterday.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal told his supporters to end anti-police protests that erupted in violence yesterday, saying the force had promised to take action over his accusations of negligence by officers.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – A former Vatican prelate on trial for an alleged plot to smuggle 20 million euros into Italy was further charged yesterday with laundering millions through the Vatican bank, police said.

VIENNA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Iran has halted its most sensitive nuclear operations under a preliminary deal with world powers, winning some relief from economic sanctions yesterday in a ground-breaking exchange that could ease a threat of war.

UNITED NATIONS/ ANKARA (Reuters) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon withdrew a last-minute invitation to Iran to attend peace talks on Syria yesterday after the Syrian opposition threatened to boycott this week’s conference if President Bashar al-Assad’s main sponsor took part.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Israel’s parliament yesterday any comparison between the Jewish state and apartheid South Africa was “sickening”, drawing a standing ovation – and an angry walkout by two Arab legislators.

LONDON (Reuters) – Which investment takes your fancy: BRIC, MINT or CIVETS?

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian government minister Shashi Tharoor appeared yesterday before a magistrate probing the death of his wife days after she accused him of adultery.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Syria’s political opposition said on Monday it will withdraw from international peace talks scheduled this week unless United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon retracts an invitation to Iran, President Bashar al-Assad’s main backer.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The New Jersey mayor who added to Governor Chris Christie’s woes with fresh claims that his office punishes uncooperative local officials stuck to her story yesterday, overshadowing the governor’s fundraising trip in Florida.

KABUL (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 21 people including three United Nations staff and the International Monetary Fund’s top representative in Afghanistan.

SILIVRI, Turkey (Reuters) – Syria’s main political opposition group in exile agreed yesterday to attend internationally sponsored peace talks, and said for the first time three rebel fighting forces also wanted to take part.

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has extended a purge of official bodies to the banking and telecoms regulators and state TV, firing dozens of executives in moves that appear to broaden Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s backlash against a corruption investigation.

JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudanese government forces said they seized the flashpoint town of Bor back from rebels yesterday and Uganda’s army claimed credit for the operation, highlighting the depth of its involvement in the conflict.

NOVA ESPERANCA DO PIRIA, Brazil (Reuters) – Alex Lacerda and Paulo Maues drive a silver pickup to an outdoor sawmill near the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

(BBC) BBC TV presenter Komla Dumor has died suddenly at his home in London at the age of 41, it has been announced.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – – The wife of an Indian government minister was found dead in a New Delhi hotel room yesterday, police said, days after she was involved in a row with a Pakistani woman journalist over Twitter.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama banned U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of close friends and allies yesterday and began reining in the vast collection of Americans’ phone data in a series of limited reforms triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations.

JOHANNESBURG/KIGALI,  (Reuters) – The United States says it is deeply worried about threats made by Rwandan President Paul Kagame against political opponents after one of his exiled critics was found murdered in a hotel room in South Africa.

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Another 5.6 million American children may die prematurely unless smoking rates fall in the United States, according to a report by the U.S.