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PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said today the fate of former U.S.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Mass demonstrations across Egypt today may determine its future, two and half years after people power toppled a dictator they called Pharaoh and ushered in a democracy crippled by bitter divisions.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff’s approval rating sank by 27 percentage points in the last three weeks, a poll showed yesterday in the strongest evidence yet that the recent wave of street protests sweeping Brazil poses a serious threat to her likely re-election bid next year.

ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union at midnight tonight, a milestone that caps the Adriatic republic’s recovery from war but is tinged with anxiety over the state of the economy and the bloc it joins.

BERLIN (Reuters) – The United States has bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine yesterday, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged US spy programmes.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched a major offensive yesterday against rebels in Homs, a centre of the two-year-old uprising, in their latest drive to secure an axis connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean.

PILTON, England (Reuters) – Tomato fights, anarchic gymnasts and astrophysics drew festival-goers of all ages away from the mainstream music acts at Britain’s Glastonbury festival this weekend.

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday the United States had asked him not to grant asylum for former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden in a “cordial” telephone conversation he held with US Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The United States has bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine on Saturday, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged U.S.

ALEXANDRIA/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Two people, one an American, were killed when protesters stormed an office of Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood in Alexandria yesterday, adding to growing tension ahead of mass rallies aimed at unseating the Islamist president.

ROME,  (Reuters) – A senior Catholic cleric with connections to the Vatican bank was arrested yesterday for plotting to help rich friends smuggle tens of millions of euros in cash into Italy from Switzerland, in the latest blow to the Vatican’s image.

PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s ailing anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela is doing much better in hospital, his ex-wife Winnie said yesterday, as U.S.

NEW YORK/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Gold surged around 1 percent in very choppy trade yesterday as heavy short-covering and book-squaring activities on the last trading day of a dismal second quarter lifted the metal after the previous session’s drop.

BEIRUT – Syrian rebels said they had overrun a major military checkpoint in Deraa and hoped it would allow them to capture the southern city, the cradle of their 27-month-old uprising.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – BlackBerry’s total market value plunged by more than one-fourth yesterday after the smartphone maker reported dismal quarterly results, prompting ever-deeper skepticism about a long-promised turnaround.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate approved a landmark immigration bill yesterday that would provide millions of undocumented immigrants a chance to become citizens, but the leader of the House of Representatives said the measure was dead on arrival in the House.

GOREE ISLAND, Senegal,  (Reuters) – Almost four centuries after Africans started being shipped to North America as slaves, the first U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday cut off longtime U.S.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s leftist government thumbed its nose at Washington yesterday by renouncing U.S.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges of killing four people in the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S.