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HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Interference by foreign parliaments in Hong Kong’s affairs is deeply regrettable, the leader of the Chinese-ruled city said today, adding that an escalation of violence cannot solve social issues in the Asian financial hub.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday he would not request an extension to Brexit, hours after a law came into force demanding that he delay Britain’s departure from the European Union until 2020 unless he can strike a divorce deal.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday credited Mexico and Central American countries with helping to cut U.S.

(Reuters) – The American Medical Association yesterday urged Americans to stop using electronic cigarettes of any sort until scientists have a better handle on the cause of 450 lung illnesses and at least five deaths related to the use of the products.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, has lost one third of its seats in the Moscow city assembly, final polling data cited by Russian news agencies showed yesterday, in an awkward setback for the Kremlin.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights chief said yesterday that extrajudicial killings appeared to be continuing in Venezuela and the Special Action Forces (FAES) presumed to be responsible had received support from the highest levels of government.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Small gold miners that have been working on illegal pits in the Amazon rainforest blocked an important road for grains transportation in Brazil’s Para state yesterday, protesting a crackdown by the government, police said.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, has lost a slew of seats in the Moscow parliament, RIA news agency said on Monday, suggesting a tactical voting strategy pushed by opponents may have worked.

LONDON,  (Reuters)- Malaria can be eradicated within a generation, global health experts have said.

KABUL/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel Afghan peace talks will cost more American lives, the Taliban said yesterday while the United States promised to keep up military pressure on the militants, in a stunning reversal of efforts to forge a deal ending nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong is an inseparable part of China and any form of secessionism “will be crushed”, state media said yesterday, a day after demonstrators rallied at the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Airways pilots began a 48-hour strike today, grounding most of the airline’s flights and disrupting thousands of travellers’ plans in unprecedented industrial action over a pay dispute.

MARSH HARBOUR/NASSAU, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – Days after fleeing their crumbling home and breaking into a vacant apartment to take shelter while Hurricane Dorian rampaged over the Bahamas’ Great Abaco Island, Samuel Cornish and his family caught a rescue flight to Nassau.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the upmarket Causeway Bay shopping district today, after demonstrators had rallied at the U.S.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd resigned from the government and the ruling Conservative Party yesterday in a protest over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the country’s departure from the European Union.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Congress voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve a temporary state of siege in six northeastern provinces, a measure designed to tighten security after several soldiers were killed by suspected drug traffickers.

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (Reuters)- Pope Francis said yesterday that rapid deforestation and the loss of biodiversity in individual countries should not be treated as local issues since they threaten the future of the planet.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s toppled former leader Omar al-Bashir was the only person with a key to a room at the presidential palace holding millions of euros, his last office manager testified today.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Robert Mugabe, the bush war guerrilla who led Zimbabwe to independence and crushed his foes during nearly four decades of rule as his country descended into poverty, hyperinflation and unrest, died yesterday.

LETICIA, Colombia,  (Reuters) – Seven Amazonian countries yesterday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thousands of square miles of the jungle.