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LONDON/MONTREAL,  (Reuters) – Global airlines yesterday suspended or scaled back more direct flights to China’s major cities amid an increase in travel warnings and decline in demand from passengers due to a growing outbreak of coronavirus.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department yesterday issued a public designation for 13 current and former Salvadoran military officials for what it called gross human rights violations during El Salvador’s civil war three decades ago.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia will allow hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants to legalize their presence in the country through work permits meant to bring them into the legal economy, the government said yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Facing destitution when her marriage broke down, 72-year-old Agnes Sithole went to court to challenge a sexist law – and won not only a share of her husband’s property but a legal victory that will protect some 400,000 other black South African women.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Amid uncertainty over the question of whether to call witnesses in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, his legal team wrapped up its opening arguments on Tuesday with an appeal for a quick acquittal.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – A major earthquake struck south of Cuba yesterday, sending shockwaves as far as Miami and sparking panic in the Cayman Islands where it ripped open sinkholes, but did not do serious damage to people or property, initial reports said.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The death toll from a new coronavirus in China rose sharply to 132 yesterday with nearly 1,500 new cases, heaping pressure on Beijing to control the disease as U.S.

 (Reuters) – A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the western Caribbean today, triggering evacuations as buildings shook across the Cayman Islands, in Jamaica, and in downtown Miami, but with no initial reports of significant damage.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping said today that China was sure of defeating a “devil” coronavirus that has killed 106 people, but international alarm was rising as the outbreak spread across the world.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – The United States warned against travel to China yesterday and Canada issued a more narrow travel warning as the death toll from the spreading coronavirus passed 100, with tens of millions stranded during the biggest holiday of the year and global markets rattled.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead yesterday for one of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies, allowing his administration to implement a rule denying legal permanent residency to certain immigrants deemed likely to require government assistance in the future.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – The filing of murder charges against the former CEO of Brazilian miner Vale SA and 15 others for a 2019 dam collapse that killed more than 250 people was hailed by victims’ families as a major step in bringing those responsible to justice.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Andrew has provided “zero cooperation” to U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – A Portuguese hacker has taken responsibility for disclosing hundreds of thousands of files revealing how billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former president, built her vast business empire, his lawyers said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told a then-top aide in August he wanted to freeze security aid to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden, the New York Times reported yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration rolled out a new rule on Thursday that aims to limit “birth tourism” by women who enter the United States on tourist visas with the intention of obtaining citizenship for their babies born on American soil.

(Reuters) – Five people in the United States, all of whom recently traveled from Wuhan, China, have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, officials of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A day after Bolivia suspended diplomatic relations with Cuba, Havana accused its interim government of having sought to sabotage bilateral ties ever since it took power last year, partly under pressure from the Trump administration.