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ABUJA/LAGOS,  (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law an oil overhaul bill that has been in the works for nearly two decades, a presidential spokesman said today.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – The Taliban declared the war in Afghanistan was over after insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul as U.S.-led

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday called an early election for Sept.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents entered Afghanistan’s capital Kabul today and said they expected to take power within days, promising to moderate their earlier hardline Islamist rule even as foreign diplomats and many locals tried to leave.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – At least 28 people were killed and 79 injured when a fuel tank exploded in northern Lebanon early on Sunday, the health ministry said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE/HAVANA (Reuters) – At least 304 people died and hundreds were injured after a major earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, authorities said, reducing churches, hotels, schools and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The territory controlled by the crumbling Afghan government shrank to little more than Kabul on Sunday after the Taliban captured the major northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif while the United States sent more troops to help evacuate its civilians.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A second young woman abducted seven years ago from the town of Chibok by Boko Haram militants was freed this week, Borno state’s governor said on Saturday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit Governor General Mary Simon today, when he is expected to seek a federal election next month, two years ahead of schedule.

BEIRUT, Aug 15 (Reuters) – At least 20 people were killed in a fuel tanker explosion in Akkar in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross said on its verified Twitter account.

(Reuters) – Nicaraguan police on Saturday arrested the general manager of newspaper La Prensa, a day after raiding its offices and accusing the publication, which is a trenchant critic of President Daniel Ortega, of customs fraud and money laundering.

(Wildlife Conservation Society) – A team of scientists has discovered a new marmoset species in the Brazilian Amazon.

(University of Otago) – A University of Otago study has revealed new evidence of rapid evolution in New Zealand’s native insect species in response to increased exposure to wind from the loss of shelter due to deforestation.

(Duke Today) – Most of us remember a time when we could eat anything we wanted and not gain weight.

(Reuters) – Taliban insurgents have seized Afghanistan’s second- and third-biggest cities, local officials said on Friday, as resistance from government forces crumbled and fears grew that an assault on the capital Kabul could be just days away.

(Reuters) – Lawmakers in the New York Assembly will suspend their impeachment investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo in light of his promise to step down from office over sexual harassment complaints, Speaker Carl Heastie said in a statement on Friday.

(Reuters) – Dozens of pro-immigrant groups criticized President Joe Biden’s asylum policies on Friday, saying continued expulsions of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico

(Reuters) – Canada on Friday said it will soon require all federal public servants and many other workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, as it looks to boost its already world-leading inoculation rate amid a Delta variant-driven surge in new infections.

(Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a bid to block a residential eviction moratorium put in place last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), despite raising questions about the new order’s legality.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country’s indigenous Mexica peoples for forgiveness for the abuses inflicted on them during the bloody 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire.