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AKCAKALE, Turkey,  (Reuters) – Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria yesterday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before starting a cross-border ground operation that could transform an eight-year-old war.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Masked youths battled Ecuadorean security forces during indigenous-led protests and a national strike yesterday as President Lenin Moreno stuck by austerity measures that have triggered the worst unrest in a decade.

(Reuters) – The United States and China made no progress in deputy-level trade talks held on Monday and Tuesday in Washington, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) said, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the meetings.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – During a high-level meeting at Ethiopia’s foreign ministry in July, officials were shocked by social media reports that their prime minister was visiting Eritrea.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno yesterday ordered a curfew around government buildings after six days of violent anti-austerity protests that have pushed his administration out of the capital Quito and brought hundreds of arrests.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Italy’s parliament voted yesterday to cut the number of elected lawmakers by more than a third, approving a reform championed by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement that could profoundly impact the political landscape.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday it would refuse to cooperate with a “baseless, unconstitutional” congressional impeachment inquiry, setting Republican President Donald Trump on a collision course with the Democratic-led U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who previously won $680,000 over his claims that it failed to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts, a Philadelphia jury said yesterday.

(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a new rebellion from his cabinet over concerns of a no-deal Brexit, with a group of cabinet ministers poised to resign, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.

NUR-SULTAN,  (Reuters) – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev today ordered an investigation into former senior officials who initiated a struggling $1.5 billion Chinese-led project to build a light rail network in the capital.

WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday launched a harsh attack on NATO ally Turkey, threatening to destroy its economy if Ankara takes a planned military strike in Syria too far, even though the U.S.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s main opposition leader repeatedly attacked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday during a pivotal televised debate, calling him a phony and a fraud who did not deserve to be re-elected on Oct.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday said eight years of U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Thousands of climate-change protesters took to the streets in cities around the world yesterday, launching two weeks of peaceful civil disobedience to demand immediate action to cut carbon emissions and avert an ecological disaster.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A federal judge today said U.S. President Donald Trump must hand over eight years of tax returns to Manhattan prosecutors, forcefully rejecting the president’s argument that he was immune from criminal investigations.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening up new approaches to treating heart failure, anaemia and cancer.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A second whistleblower has come forward with first-hand knowledge of President Donald Trump’s attempts to get the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival, lawyers for the official said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The treatment of U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch – disparaged by President Donald Trump and abruptly recalled from Ukraine – exemplifies what current and former U.S.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean authorities began arresting shopkeepers for raising food prices as indigenous groups clashed with security forces yesterday in a fourth day of protests against President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday there was no way the United States would bring alternative plans for their stalled nuclear talks to a meeting proposed by Stockholm in two weeks after weekend negotiations in Sweden broke down.