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BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric said a new prime minister must be chosen without foreign interference in an apparent nod to Iranian influence, as armed men killed at least 19 people, including three police, near a Baghdad protest site yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. regulators yesterday said they had found now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica deceived consumers about the collection of Facebook Inc data for voter profiling and targeting.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Indian police shot dead four men yesterday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, an action applauded by her family and many citizens outraged over sexual violence against women.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk emerged victorious yesterday from a defamation trial as a federal court jury swiftly rejected the $190 million claim brought against him by a British cave explorer who Musk had branded a “pedo guy” on Twitter.

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Singapore could become the world’s first country to only use sustainable palm oil as part of a green push to tackle forest fires and air pollution blighting Southeast Asia.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Indian police shot dead four men today who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, an action applauded by her family and many citizens outraged over sexual violence against women.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Warning that American democracy is at stake, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi directed a House committee yesterday to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a historic step that sets up a fight over whether to oust him from office.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

BANJUL, (Reuters) – The genocide case brought against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the first of its kind initiated since the 1990s – may not have happened at all but for a scheduling conflict.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities yesterday took aim at a Russian cybercriminal group known as Evil Corp, indicting its Lamborghini-driving alleged leader and ordering asset freezes against 17 of his associates over a digital crime spree that has netted more than $100 million from companies across the world.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru and Washington are in the final stages of talks on a deal to promote American investments in the South American country as part of a U.S.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – A 34-year-old British hiker was revived in Spain after a six-hour cardiac arrest brought on by severe hypothermia, with the low mountain temperatures that made her ill also helping to save her life in what a doctor described as an “exceptional case”.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – A wealthy businessman, who is the prime suspect in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, told a Malta court today he got regular tip-offs about the investigation from the government’s ex-chief of staff.

LUCKNOW,  Dec 5 (Reuters) – A 23-year-old rape victim was set ablaze by a gang of men, including the alleged rapist, as she made her way to court in the northern India today, police said, stirring public outrage and shame over the scourge of crimes against women.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Three legal experts told U.S. lawmakers yesterday that President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival amounted to impeachable offenses, in a hearing that laid the groundwork for formal charges to be filed against the president.

WATFORD, England,  (Reuters) – It was shaping up for a repeat of NATO’s disastrous summit of July 2018, when U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Anti-government protests in Haiti are waning, with schools and businesses trying to re-open in the face of political gridlock and heightened violence in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – An Americas regional forum yesterday published details of “deliberate” and “malicious” steps to rig Bolivia’s October election in favor of then President Evo Morales, who has resigned and left the Andean nation in political crisis.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – President Rodrigo Duterte today ordered the filing of criminal charges against the Philippines’ two biggest water utilities and demanded new deals to replace contracts “onerous and disadvantageous” for ratepayers, his spokesman said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump solicited foreign interference to boost his re-election chances, undermined national security and ordered an “unprecedented” campaign to obstruct Congress, Democrats said yesterday in a report that lawmakers will use as the basis of any formal impeachment charges.