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HARARE (Reuters) – Africa’s oldest president, Robert Mugabe, was declared winner of Zimbabwe’s election yesterday, but his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, said he would challenge in court a result he called a fraud that would push the nation back into crisis.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Insurgents attacked the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s eastern capital yesterday, killing nine people and reinforcing fears that a bloody regional power struggle will be played out in the country once most foreign troops leave.

CAIRO  (Reuters) – Egypt’s army-backed rulers and allies of its deposed Islamist president gave the first signs yesterday of a readiness to compromise, pressed by Western envoys trying to head off more bloodshed.

RABAT (Reuters) – Riot police broke up a protest by hundreds of Moroccans late on Friday against a royal pardon for a Spanish paedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping and filming children as young as four.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Times Co has agreed to sell The Boston Globe to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team for $70 million in cash, a small fraction of what the Times paid for the newspaper 20 years ago.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has won re-election for a further five-year term, the Zimbabwe Election Commission said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States issued a worldwide travel alert yesterday warning Americans that al Qaeda may be planning attacks in August, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world’s first lab-grown beef burger.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it would work with other nations to resolve Egypt’s crisis peacefully, injecting new energy into a push to end a bloody standoff since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

LONDON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. officials paved the way yesterday for same-sex spouses to visit or live in the United States, announcing the State Department will give equal treatment to visa applications of gays and lesbians who want to travel with their partner.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Thursday his sweeping energy reform, which is expected to include constitutional changes to lure private investment and boost output, will be presented to Congress next week.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday warning Americans that al Qaeda may be planning attacks in August, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.

ROME,  (Reuters) – A ruling by Italy’s supreme court upholding a tax fraud conviction against former premier and centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi has left the fate of the country’s fragile ruling coalition resting in the balance.

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russia rejected U.S. pleas and granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year’s asylum yesterday, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport after more than five weeks in limbo while angering the United States and putting in doubt a planned summit between the two nations’ presidents.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed Zimbabwe’s election as a farce yesterday after his rival President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed a landslide victory that would secure another five years in power for Africa’s oldest head of state.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Relations between the Soviet Union and the West had become so tense 30 years ago that British officials drew up a speech for Queen Elizabeth to deliver to the nation in the event of a nuclear war, newly released archives showed yesterday.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed Zimbabwe’s election as a farce today after his rival President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed a landslide victory that would secure another five years in power for Africa’s oldest head of state.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe police vowed to crack down on any attempts to leak early results from yesterday’s vote, complicating plans by some civic groups to pre-empt official announcements by the country’s election commission.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – New revelations from former security contractor Edward Snowden that U.S.

WASHINGTON/ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s executive director at the IMF refused to back the Fund’s move this week to keep bank rolling Greece, citing risks of non-repayment, and the Fund itself said Athens might need faster debt relief from Europe.