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BOGOTA (Reuters) – International donors have been significantly less generous in their support of Venezuelan migrants than other global refugee crises, Colombia’s foreign minister said yesterday, as he repeated a request for more aid money.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile will begin budgeting for the costs of fighting climate change, Finance Minister Felipe Larraín announced yesterday, as receding glaciers and drought put a squeeze on water and natural resources in the world’s top copper producer.

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said it is tweaking its policies to allow users to see and control the data that other websites and apps share with the social network to improve targeted advertising.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he had authorised contact with the administration of U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Companies should focus on social responsibilities as well as profits, the Business Roundtable, a group of corporate chief executives that includes the head of the largest U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said today he was considering scaling back an effort that could have cut billions of dollars in foreign aid and would decide on the proposal – which faces strong opposition in Congress – within days.

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Countries in the northern hemisphere can expect longer summer heatwaves, as well as more consecutive days of heavy rain with harmful consequences, if internationally agreed goals to limit global warming are exceeded, scientists warned on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a “cluster” of lung illnesses that it believes may be linked to e-cigarette use after such cases were reported in 14 states.

SINGAPORE/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – China National Petroleum Corp, a leading buyer of Venezuelan oil, has halted August loadings following the latest U.S.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s ousted president Omar Hassan al-Bashir acknowledged receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a police detective told a court yesterday at the start of a corruption trial that many Sudanese thought they would never see.

CIUDAD DELGADO, El Salvador (Reuters) – A Salvadoran court yesterday acquitted a woman accused of homicide after giving birth to a stillborn baby in a case that drew international attention to the socially conservative nation’s strict abortion ban.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had discussed holding a presidential election in the coming months during talks to find a breakthrough in the country’s political crisis, four sources told Reuters yesterday.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s ousted president Omar Hassan al-Bashir acknowledged receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a police detective told a court on Monday at the start of a corruption trial that many Sudanese thought they would never see.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters rallied peacefully in Hong Kong yesterday, filling major thoroughfares under torrential downpours in the eleventh week of what have been often violent demonstrations in the Asian financial hub.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and top White House officials dismissed concerns that economic growth may be faltering, saying yesterday they saw little risk of recession despite a volatile week on global bond markets, and insisting their trade war with China was doing no damage to the United States.

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday said he did not want the United States to do business with China’s Huawei even as the administration weighs whether to extend a grace period for the company.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility yesterday for a suicide blast at a wedding reception in Afghanistan that killed 63 people, underlining the dangers the country faces even if the Taliban agrees to a pact with the United States.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – White House officials pushed back today against concerns that economic growth may be faltering, saying they saw little risk of recession despite a volatile week on global bond markets, and insisting their trade war with China was doing no damage to the United States.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide blast at a wedding reception in Afghanistan that killed 63 people, underling the dangers the country faces even if the Taliban agree a pact with the United States.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked to the Sunday Times show.