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NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi contradicted his closest lieutenant over plans for a nationwide register as he tried to defuse protests against a citizenship law in which at least 21 people have been killed.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House yesterday signaled comfort with plans by Senate Republicans to avoid new witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, while a top Democrat seized on a newly released email on the withholding of U.S.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Following days of violent, sometimes deadly protests across India against a new citizenship law critics say discriminates against Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a rally yesterday for his Hindu nationalist party in the capital.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s Starliner astronaut spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” landing in the New Mexico desert yesterday, a successful ending to a crewless test mission that two days earlier failed to reach the orbit needed to dock with the International Space Station.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Assailants raided a military facility in southern Venezuela early yesterday morning, stealing weapons and killing one soldier, authorities said.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Sexual abuse of minors was rife among superiors of the Legionaires of Christ Catholic religious order, with at least 60 boys abused by its founder Father Marcial Maciel, a report by the group showed.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s ambassador to Argentina resigned yesterday citing health problems following new allegations of shoplifting after video from late October showed the diplomat attempting to steal a $10 book.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Following days of violent, sometimes deadly protests across India against a new citizenship law critics say discriminates against Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a rally today for his Hindu nationalist party in the capital.

WASHINGTON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Across the globe, rural workers and rights groups are testing an international agreement they say could help hundreds of millions of people protect their right to own and use land.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday said the United States and China would “very shortly” sign their so-called Phase One trade pact.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel yesterday named tourism minister Manuel Marrero Cruz as the country’s first prime minister in decades, under a new constitution that seeks to decentralize former leader Fidel Castro’s job.

LUCKNOW,  (Reuters) – A court sentenced a former lawmaker from India’s ruling party to life imprisonment for raping a teenager, his lawyer said on Friday, the highest ranking Indian politician to get such a significant jail term in recent years.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a meeting of top military officials to discuss boosting the country’s military capability, state news agency reported yesterday amid heightened concern the North may be about to return to confrontation with Washington.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – More than 1,500 protesters have been arrested across India in the past 10 days, officials said, as police try to quell sometimes violent demonstrations against a citizenship law that critics say undermines the country’s secular constitution.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French telecoms group Orange and its former CEO Didier Lombard were guilty of “moral harassment” that prompted a spate of suicides during a restructuring at the company in the late 2000s, a Paris court ruled on Thursday.

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Elusive British street artist Banksy has highlighted the issue of rough sleeping in a seasonal mural showing two flying reindeer pulling a homeless man on a street-bench sleigh.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government has sparked a holiday controversy by hanging Christmas lights in major cities, which many say have no place in a country suffering chronic blackouts.

(SciDev.Net) – Lower-income countries are increasingly facing a double blow from the impact of both undernutrition and obesity, which often coexist within the same community – and are even found within the same families or individuals.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong residents have been gathering across the city on weekends and in lunch breaks to write Christmas cards to injured protesters and those in detention as anti-government demonstrations grind on through the holiday season.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian teenage Scrabble protégé Tengku Ariff Shah can spell more English words than most adults in the Western world, but he doesn’t always know what they mean.