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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.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Violent clashes erupted in Delhi between police and hundreds of university students on Friday over the enactment of a new citizenship law that critics say undermines India’s secular foundations.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A record number of women were elected as lawmakers in Britain’s general election, with women’s rights campaigners on Friday cheering the result but saying progress towards equal representation must speed up.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was on course for a resounding victory in Britain’s election after voters backed his bid to deliver Brexit on Jan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, in a surprise move, ended a marathon hearing late yesterday without voting on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The Chilean Air Force said yesterday it has recovered human remains in the search for an Antarctica-bound plane that crashed earlier this week with 38 people on board.

WHAKATANE/WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A New Zealand military team recovered six bodies today from the volcanic island that fatally erupted earlier this week, in a high risk operation watched by dozens of grieving family members waiting on the mainland.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party will win a resounding victory in Britain’s election with a parliamentary majority of 86 seats, an exit poll showed yesterday, empowering him to deliver Brexit on Jan.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s son, Rafael Antonio Ortega Murillo, for alleged money-laundering and corruption, the U.S.

NEW YORK/MADRID (Reuters) – Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change, has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019.

LONDON (Reuters) – Voters go to the polls today in an election that will pave the way for Brexit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson or propel Britain towards another referendum that could ultimately reverse the decision to leave the European Union.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives moved closer yesterday to impeaching President Donald Trump as a key House committee began debating formal articles of impeachment that are expected to be brought to the House floor next week.

WHAKATANE/WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The death toll from a New Zealand volcano eruption rose to eight today, with two victims dying in hospital, and will continue to climb with eight victims presumed dead on the island and more than 20 in intensive care suffering severe burns.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s Senate voted yesterday to strip a former interior minister of his right to hold public office, saying he failed to prevent human rights abuses by security forces during days of violent protests.

NEW YORK/MADRID, (Reuters) – Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change, has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced impeachment charges against President Donald Trump yesterday, making him the fourth president in U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp won a major victory in a closely-watched lawsuit yesterday when a judge ruled that the company did not defraud investors out of up to $1.6 billion by hiding the true cost of climate change regulation.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Opposition activists and independent journalists in Communist-run Cuba said state security and police stopped them from leaving their homes yesterday to prevent them marking or reporting on international Human Rights Day.

WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) – Increasing tremor activity on a volcanic island in New Zealand has hampered efforts by authorities to recover the bodies of eight people believed to be on the island, two days after it erupted.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in an hours-long shootout that unfolded yesterday afternoon near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey, police said.