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LUCKNOW,  (Reuters) – An Indian court found a former state lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party guilty on Monday of raping a teenager, the politician’s lawyer said, in a high profile case that had helped fuel public anger over sexual violence against women.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Tamara Ecclestone, the daughter of former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, has had an estimated 50 million pounds ($64 million)-worth of jewellery stolen from her home on a London street known as Billionaire Row.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – A handful of major states resisted pressure yesterday to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a U.N.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – More than 100 activists protesting against a new Indian citizenship law were injured in New Delhi yesterday as they clashed with police who used tear gas and baton charges to disperse demonstrators at a major university.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The “phase one” U.S.-China trade deal will nearly double U.S.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired tear gas in late night street clashes with anti-government protesters, ahead of a potentially pivotal meeting between Hong Kong’s leader and China’s president in Beijing today.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Tear gas engulfed central Beirut as security forces chased protesters near Lebanon’s parliament yesterday in a second night of street clashes that wounded dozens of people.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The senior U.S. Senate Democrat called yesterday for the Republican-led chamber to demand testimony from four current and former White House aides in a trial expected early next year on whether to remove President Donald Trump from office.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong International Airport reported its biggest fall in passenger numbers in more than a decade in November, official data released today showed.

MADRID (Reuters) – Major economies resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a U.N.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s National Assembly yesterday approved nationalising a major gas station company two days after the United States imposed sanctions on it for allegedly being used by President Daniel Ortega’s family to finance and launder money for the government.

SANANDITA, Bolivia (Reuters) – Bolivia will issue an arrest warrant in the coming days against former leftist President Evo Morales, accusing him of sedition, interim Bolivian President Jeanine Anez said yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s new government has hiked export levies on soy, wheat and corn, according to an official decree yesterday, hitting farmers in the grains exporting nation to raise revenue needed to avoid default on a mountain of looming sovereign debt.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to “focus on reality” and recognise that the Scottish National Party (SNP) has been given a mandate for a second independence referendum, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday took Republican President Donald Trump to the brink of impeachment by approving two charges against him over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson called yesterday for “closure” over the Brexit divisions that have riven the United Kingdom, saying his election victory provided an overwhelming mandate to take Britain out of the European Union on Jan.

MADRID (Reuters) – Big polluting countries faced last-ditch pressure from smaller nations to show serious commitment to fighting climate change as negotiators battled into the early hours of today to salvage a result from a fraught U.N.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson called today for “closure” over the Brexit divisions that have riven the United Kingdom, saying his election victory provided an overwhelming mandate to take Britain out of the European Union on Jan.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Democratic-controlled House of Representatives committee today took Republican President Donald Trump to the brink of impeachment when it approved two charges against him stemming from his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden.