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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain remains a long way from agreeing a final Brexit deal and the next few days will be critical if it is to agree departure terms with the European Union, a Downing Street source said yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities yesterday denied Guatemala’s president-elect Alejandro Giammattei entry into Venezuela, where he was scheduled to meet with opposition leader Juan Guaido.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States and China agreed yesterday to the first phase of a deal to end a trade war, prompting President Donald Trump to suspend a threatened tariff hike, but officials said the agreement had to be put on paper and more work was required to get it finalized.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for his peacemaking efforts which ended two decades of hostility with longtime enemy Eritrea.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The killing of a journalist who had closely covered Haiti’s political and economic crisis fueled the anger of protesters yesterday, as they clashed with police and pressed calls for the president of the impoverished nation to resign.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Hopes for a negotiated end to the worst unrest in Ecuador in at least a decade dimmed yesterday as clashes between police and anti-austerity protesters continued for a ninth day in the highland capital Quito.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge in New York yesterday temporarily blocked a Trump administration rule that would deny residency to aspiring immigrants deemed likely to require government assistance, calling it “repugnant to the American Dream.”

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – An expert in chemical contamination has called test results from the Ramu nickel spill into Papua New Guinea’s Basamuk Bay in August “alarming,” according to a local media report on Thursday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday told a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that Trump ousted her based on “unfounded and false claims” after she had come under attack by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Propelled to fashion fame by Beyonce, an African clothing designer plans to expand production in Senegal and train local tailors to translate her brand’s success into jobs.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African former President Jacob Zuma will stand trial on corruption charges relating to a $2 billion arms deal after a high court today  denied him a permanent stay of prosecution.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize today for his peacemaking efforts which ended two decades of hostility with longtime enemy Eritrea.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – Turkey pounded Kurdish militia in northeast Syria for a second day yesterday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and killing at least dozens of people in a cross-border assault on U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday sanctioned the three Gupta brothers at the centre of the South African corruption scandal that contributed to the downfall of former President Jacob Zuma, saying they had misappropriated state assets.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two foreign-born Florida businessmen who have helped President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani investigate political rival Joe Biden were arrested in a scheme to illegally funnel money to a pro-Trump election committee and other U.S.

KIEV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday  he would be ready to open a probe into any Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday  and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was named as the 2018 winner after a sexual assault scandal led to last year’s award being postponed.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two-thirds of bird species in North America, already disappearing at an alarming rate, face extinction unless immediate action is taken to slow the rate of climate change, the National Audubon Society said yesterday.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two foreign-born Florida businessmen who have been helping President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer investigate political rival Joe Biden have been arrested on charges of funneling foreign money to U.S.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Austria’s Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy said on today.