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LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson taunted his rivals on his return to parliament yesterday, goading them to either bring down the government or get out of the way to allow him to deliver Brexit.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise called for a unity government in a rare address to the nation yesterday as he faced a brewing political crisis and intensifying protests after a ruling-party senator fired a pistol to disperse a crowd.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday reinforced his support for Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido, praising Latin American leaders who back him, boosting aid funding and barring members of President Nicolas Maduro’s government from entering the United States.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, in coordination with the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Scientists behind a landmark study of the links between oceans, glaciers, ice caps and the climate delivered a stark warning to the world today: slash emissions or watch cities vanish under rising seas, rivers run dry and marine life collapse.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, accusing him of seeking foreign help to smear Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of next year’s election.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down the British parliament for five weeks in the run-up to Brexit was unlawful, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a humiliating rebuke to him.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it will provide $52 million in funding to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, an escalation of support even as his push to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro stalls.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The United States led more than 30 countries yesterday in condemning what it called China’s “horrific campaign of repression” against Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang at an event on the sidelines of the annual U.N.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday imposed sanctions on four maritime firms and vessels transporting Venezuelan oil to Cuba, amid an acute fuel scarcity in the island that is forcing people to line up for gasoline and public transport.

(Reuters) – Opera singer Placido Domingo yesterday dropped out of a performance at the Metro-politan Opera in New York while disputing accusations of sexual misconduct leveled by several women in the classical music world.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain’s supreme court gave the government the go-ahead today to exhume the remains of dictator Francisco Franco and move them from the state mausoleum in which he was buried in 1975.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down the British parliament for five weeks in the run-up to Brexit was unlawful, the Supreme Court ruled today in a humiliating rebuke to him.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At a U.N. summit on accelerating action on climate change yesterday, India promised a boost in its use of renewable power and Finland said it aims to become the first industrialized nation to absorb more carbon than it emits.

HELMAND, Afghanistan/KABUL, (Reuters) – At least 40 civilians attending a wedding party were killed by explosions and gunfire during a raid by U.S.-backed

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A legislator from Haiti’s ruling party fired a handgun during a protest yesterday, injuring a photojournalist as anger rises over fuel and food shortages in the Caribbean country.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday denied trying to coerce Ukraine into investigating his Democratic rival Joe Biden, but wavered about whether he would release a transcript of a phone call that some Democrats say is grounds for his impeachment.

ANCHORAGE,  (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday temporarily halted a Trump administration plan for logging in part of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, barring a disputed lease sale a day before bids were to be opened.

HELMAND/KABUL, Afghanistan,  (Reuters) – At least 35 civilians attending a wedding party were killed and 13 people wounded by explosions and gunfire during a raid by Afghan government forces on a nearby militant hideout, two officials in southern Helmand province said on Monday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The world’s oldest travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed today, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.