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LONDON, (Reuters) – Researchers in Britain have set out the first comprehensive map of mutational processes behind the development of tumours – work that should in future lead to better ways to treat and prevent a wide range of cancers.

N’DJAMENA, (Reuters) – The government of Chad has suspended all activities of a China National Petroleum Corporation subsidiary for violations of environmental standards while drilling for crude oil in the south of the country.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s centre-right opposition pulled further ahead of the Labour-led government with just weeks to go before elections on Sept.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Muslim Brotherhood protests plunged into violence across Egypt today, with around 50 killed in Cairo alone on a “Day of Rage” called by Islamist followers of ousted President Mohamed Mursi to denounce a police crackdown.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Deeply polarised Egypt braced for renewed confrontation today after the Muslim Brotherhood called for a nationwide march of millions to show anger at a ferocious security crackdown on Islamists in which hundreds were killed.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A small creature that looks like a cross between a house cat and teddy bear has become the first new carnivore species discovered in the Americas in 35 years.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – A powerful car bomb struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group yesterday, killing 20 people, wounding 120 and trapping many others inside damaged buildings, witnesses and emergency officials said.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called on followers to march in protest in Cairo today, after at least 525 people were killed in a security crackdown on the Islamist movement that has left the most populous Arab nation polarised and in turmoil.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Security forces struggled to clamp a lid on Egypt yesterday after hundreds of people were killed when authorities forcibly broke up camps of supporters protesting the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, in the worst nationwide bloodshed in decades.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people today when they moved in to clear a camp of Cairo protesters demanding the reinstatement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, his Muslim Brotherhood movement said.

BARAMULLA/NEW DELHI, India,  (Reuters) – Pakistan-based militants are preparing to take on India across the subcontinent once Western troops leave Afghanistan next year, several sources say, raising the risk of a dramatic spike in tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro unexpectedly named a new head of the country’s central bank yesterday, appointing Eudomar Tovar less than four months after installing a former commerce minister in the post.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – One Muslim Brotherhood member was shot dead and at least 11 people wounded in Egypt yesterday, security sources said, with the Islamist group accusing plain clothes police of firing on their march.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian negotiators set a higher base price for the purchase of helicopters from AgustaWestland and frequently changed the bidding rules, the federal auditor said yesterday, making it harder for the government to complete the 560 million euro ($744.43 million) deal.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesian media reported yesterday that the Southeast Asian country’s anti-graft agency had arrested the head of Indonesia’s energy regulator for alleged corruption.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A Russian surgeon has been arrested for taking a five-gramme bag of heroin he found in a patient’s stomach.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian negotiators set a higher base price for the purchase of helicopters from AgustaWestland and frequently changed the bidding rules, the federal auditor said today, making it harder for the government to complete the 560 million euro ($744.43 million) deal.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he will ask for decree powers last used by his predecessor Hugo Chavez to ramp up a fight against corruption that has begun to cost him politically with supporters.

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration unveiled steps yesterday to fix what it considers the longstanding unjust treatment of many nonviolent drug offenders, aiming to bypass tough mandatory prison terms while reducing America’s huge prison population and saving billions of dollars.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge ruled on Monday the New York Police Department’s “stop-and-frisk” crime-fighting tactic was unconstitutional, dealing a stinging rebuke to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who vowed to appeal the ruling.