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BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourao yesterday inaugurated a new $100 million Antarctic base, built by Chinese company CEIEC to replace the Brazilian research station destroyed by fire almost seven years ago.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed constitutional changes yesterday that would give him scope to extend his grip on power after leaving the presidency, and picked a new prime minister after Dmitry Medvedev and his cabinet stepped down.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States and China signed an initial trade deal yesterday that will roll back some tariffs and boost Chinese purchases of U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Jeffrey Epstein’s estate was sued yesterday by the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives today unveiled a seven-member team to prosecute President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial in the Senate, headed by a former prosecutor who has become a nemesis of the Republican president.

 (Reuters) – Puerto Rican bees are abandoning hives as weeks of earthquakes disrupt colonies, experts said, raising concerns that a subspecies seen as a possible solution to the global bee crisis could take another hit after being decimated by hurricanes in 2017.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Six Democratic U.S. presidential candidates sparred over war and trade, gender and health care, in a pressure-packed debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday, with the first nominating contest in the state less than three weeks away.

PARIS/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain, France and Germany formally accused Iran yesterday of violating the terms of its 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear programme, which eventually could lead to the reimposing of U.N.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rose 85% in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to a data-based warning system from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), in the latest piece of evidence to highlight rampant tree-felling.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said yesterday they would include new evidence when they send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate today, seeking to expand the scope of a trial that will dominate Washington for the next several weeks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – China has pledged to buy almost $80 billion of additional manufactured goods from the United States over the next two years as part of a trade war truce, according to a source, though some U.S.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – In a win for Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra, the country’s top court ruled yesterday that his dissolution of Congress amid a long-running standoff with lawmakers was legal.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s 24 million gamblers will no longer be able to use credit cards to place bets under the latest move by the government to tackle problem gambling.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the country’s clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations yesterday after authorities acknowledged shooting down a passenger plane by mistake.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian President Jovenel Moise could be ruling by decree later this week, a scenario he said would help break the Caribbean nation’s political deadlock but which critics fear will undermine its fragile democracy.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Chinese banks are providing $600 million in financing for the construction of an oil refinery at the Mexican port of Dos Bocas in the southeastern state of Tabasco, China’s ambassador to Mexico said yesterday.

SANDRINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth has reluctantly agreed to her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s wish for a more independent future after the British royal family held crisis talks yesterday to resolve a widening rift among the Windsors.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican members of the U.S Senate, poised to begin an impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the coming days, voiced opposition yesterday to any attempt to dismiss the charges against him without a trial.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States today  imposed sanctions on seven Venezuelan government officials it said led a bid by President Nicolas Maduro to wrest control of the country’s congress from U.S.-backed

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Angolan courts have refrained from action to seize billionaire ex-first daughter Isabel Dos Santos’ assets abroad but will not hesitate to do so if necessary, a prosecution spokesman said.