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BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi yesterday declared a curfew in Baghdad until further notice after at least seven people were killed and more than 400 were injured during two days of nationwide anti-government protests.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s vice president renounced her claim to the presidency on Tuesday in a surprise twist to a constitutional crisis, dealing a fresh blow to a rebel band of former lawmakers resisting President Martin Vizcarra’s dissolution of Congress.

AUSTIN, Texas,  (Reuters) – Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced by a Texas jury to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after finding her guilty of murder for walking into a neighbour’s apartment thinking it was her own and shooting him as he ate ice cream.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a final Brexit offer to the European Union yesterday, pitching a possible compromise for a last-minute exit deal that was cautiously welcomed by the EU though the two sides still remain far apart.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the “father of the nation” Mahatma Gandhi on the 150th anniversary of his birth at his memorial in New Delhi yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States has blocked the import of goods suspected to have been made with forced labour from five countries, including clothing from China and diamonds from Zimbabwe, officials said on Tuesday following a rare crackdown on slave labor abroad.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s armed forces and police reaffirmed allegiance to President Martin Vizcarra late yesterday after his move to close Congress prompted dozens of dismissed lawmakers to pledge loyalty to vice president in a deepening political standoff.

SEOUL/TOKYO,  (Reuters) – North Korea fired at least one missile off its east coast today that South Korea said may have been launched from a submarine, a day after it announced the resumption of talks with the United States aimed at ending its nuclear programme.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate approved the main text of a pension reform bill in a first-round vote yesterday, clearing another key hurdle for the government’s bid to narrow its massive budget gap.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong anti-government protesters are increasingly focusing their anger on mainland Chinese businesses and those with pro-Beijing links, daubing graffiti on store fronts and vandalising outlets in the heart of the financial centre.

KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – The Speaker of the House of Representatives in Nepal’s parliament, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, resigned today  to allow an investigation into an accusation made by a female parliament employee that he raped her.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives’ impeachment probe into President Donald Trump intensified on Monday, as Trump raged about the inquiry and news reports suggested he had used additional diplomatic channels to go after his adversaries.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – When U.S. oil firm Talos Energy found nearly a billion barrels off Mexico’s southern Gulf coast two years ago, it marked the first discovery by a foreign firm since the oil industry was nationalized eight decades earlier.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China celebrated its growing power and confidence with a massive display of military hardware and goose-stepping troops in Beijing yesterday, overseen by President Xi Jinping who pledged peaceful development on the 70th birthday of Communist China.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today escalated his attacks against the lawmaker leading the impeachment inquiry against him, suggesting that Representative Adam Schiff be arrested for “treason.”

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China hopes Beijing and Washington will resolve their trade dispute “with a calm and rational attitude”, Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said yesterday, ahead of talks in two weeks between the two sides.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Congress is determined to get access to Donald Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, the U.S.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – An American who leaked the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive people in Singapore has been sentenced to 24 months in a U.S.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s metro stations and roads re-opened today, after a chaotic weekend that saw police fire water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who set fires and threw petrol bombs outside government offices and across central districts.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government accused Peruvian authorities yesterday of fomenting “xenophobia” against the large Venezuelan exile population after a series of incidents of apparent mistreatment of migrants.