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HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam today withdrew an extradition bill that triggered months of often violent protests so the Chinese-ruled city can move forward from a “highly vulnerable and dangerous” place and find solutions.

MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian has left parts of tourism-dependent Bahamas in ruins and relief officials yesterday were preparing for an unfolding humanitarian crisis with the scale of the catastrophe only beginning to emerge.

LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – British lawmakers defeated Boris Johnson in parliament on Tuesday in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement, prompting the prime minister to announce that he would immediately push for a snap election.

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – Opposition lawmakers in Tanzania on Tuesday boycotted the swearing in of a ruling party lawmaker who replaced a fierce critic of the president following his expulsion from parliament.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A cross-party alliance defeated Prime Minister Boris Johnson in parliament today in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement – a move that the government warned would thrust Britain towards an October snap election.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian pounded The Bahamas yesterday, killing at least five people and inundating homes with floodwater ahead of its expected advance on the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Lawmakers will decide today whether to move Britain one step closer to an early election when they vote on the first stage of their plan to block Prime Minister Boris Johnson from pursuing a no-deal Brexit.

MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian pounded the Bahamas today, peeling off roofs, snapping power lines and inundating homes with floodwater while creeping toward the U.S.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said today, amid tensions with arch-rival India after New Delhi revoked the special status of its part of the disputed Kashmir region.

TITUSVILLE, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian, the second-strongest Atlantic storm on record, pounded the Bahamian islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama last  night and was forecast to move dangerously close to Florida in the next two days, U.S.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States began imposing 15% tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods yesterday – including footwear, smart watches and flat-panel televisions – as China began imposing new duties on U.S.

(Reuters) – A gunman who went on the rampage with an AR-type rifle in West Texas killed seven people and wounded 22 others, including a toddler who was shot in the face, before he was killed by police, authorities said yesterday.

TITUSVILLE, Fla., (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian intensified into a dangerous category 5 storm as it approached The Bahamas today, expected to pound the islands with up to two days of torrential rain, high waves and damaging winds before taking aim at the U.S.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian punched northwest yesterday to threaten Georgia and the Carolinas, possibly sparing Florida a direct hit, as the Bahamas braced for catastrophic waves and wind from the muscular category 4 storm.

LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) – Thousands of people across Britain and Northern Ireland protested yesterday against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament for about a month before the deadline for the country to leave the European Union.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to the Arctic are being left out of the global conversation on water property rights, a United Nations’ indigenous rights expert has warned.

(Reuters) – Five people were killed, including a shooter, and around 21 were injured in a gun rampage in the cities of Midland and Odessa in west Texas yesterday, police and a local television station reported.

(Reuters) – Five people were killed, including a shooter, and around 21 were injured in a gun rampage in the cities of Midland and Odessa in west Texas today, police and a local television station reported.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon today as pro-democracy protesters threw petrol bombs in the latest in a series of clashes that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.