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OTTAWA/WILMINGTON, Del.,  (Reuters) – The railway whose runaway train killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, last month filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada and the United States on Wednesday as it faces mounting pressure from authorities to pay for the disaster cleanup.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The world’s second-largest offshore wind farm, capable of generating enough electricity to power over half a million homes, was opened officially off England’s east coast yesterday.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A fire engulfed Kenya’s main airport today, forcing the suspension of international passenger flights and choking a vital travel gateway to east Africa.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The chances for a negotiated end to Egypt’s political crisis looked to have hit the rocks yesterday with the army-installed government reportedly ready to declare that foreign mediation efforts had failed.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Haitian President Michel Martelly plans to hold overdue elections before the end of the year, according to U.S.

TUNIS,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Tunisians crowded the streets of downtown Tunis yesterday to demand the transitional government’s ouster, in the largest opposition protest since the country’s political crisis began two weeks ago.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday filed two civil lawsuits against Bank of America that accuse the bank of investor fraud in its sale of $850 million of residential mortgage-backed securities.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The first scientific analysis of probable human-to-human transmission of a deadly new strain of bird flu that emerged in China this year gives the strongest evidence yet that the H7N9 virus can pass between people, scientists said yesterday.

(DALLAS,  (Reuters) – Former Presi-dent George W. Bush underwent successful surgery at a Dallas hospital on Tuesday to place a stent in a blocked heart artery.

SANAA,  (Reuters) – The United States told its citizens in Yemen yesterday to leave immediately and ordered the evacuation of non-essential U.S.

(Reuters) – A four-meter (13-foot) African rock python which strangled two young Canadian boys as they slept has been euthanized, police said yesterday, as authorities examined what happened and why the snake – illegal in the province of New Brunswick – attacked.

SANAA,  (Reuters) – The United States told its citizens in Yemen today to leave immediately and ordered the evacuation of non-essential U.S.

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos will buy the Washington Post newspaper for $250 million in a surprise deal that ends the Graham family’s 80 years of ownership and hands one of the country’s most influential publications to the businessman whose Internet company has transformed retailing.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood on Monday rejected pleas from international envoys to “swallow the reality” that Mohamed Mursi will not return as Egypt’s president.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The world’s first laboratory-grown beef burger was flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan yesterday, with food tasters declaring it tasted “close to meat”.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States extended embassy closures by a week in the Middle East and Africa as a precaution yesterday after an al Qaeda threat that U.S.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s army-installed government said yesterday it would give mediation a chance to resolve the crisis brought on by the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, but warned that time was limited.

RABAT,  (Reuters) – Morocco’s king yesterday revoked his pardon of a Spanish paedophile, after hundreds rioted in front of parliament on Friday to protest the decision.

HUIZHOU, China, (Reuters) – Chinese bloggers trying to expose corruption say they are coming under increasing physical and verbal attack over their reports, in what anti-graft activists describe as another blow to efforts to make Chinese officials more accountable.