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OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday accepted a watchdog’s report that he breached ethics rules by trying to influence a corporate legal case but refused to apologize, saying he had been trying to defend jobs.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s supreme court ordered the health ministry yesterday to issue regulation within six months on medical marijuana use, saying its failure to do so after legalization in 2017 had put rights at risk for patients, including children.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poor harvests and prolonged drought are driving rural families in parts of Central America from their homes to seek better opportunities in their own or neighbouring countries and in the United States, the United Nations said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party has urged rebel lawmakers in the ruling Conservatives to help block a no-deal Brexit by bringing down Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration and allowing its leader Jeremy Corbyn to form a caretaker government.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong braced yesterday for more mass demonstrations through the weekend, with the weeks-long crisis escalating after pro-democracy protests forced the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights this week and world leaders urging calm.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine President Mauricio Macri yesterday unveiled a package of welfare subsidies and tax cuts for lower-income workers to lessen the pain of an economic crisis months before elections, but his announcement failed to halt the peso currency’s collapse.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein at the age of 14 sued the disgraced financier’s estate and a former associate on Wednesday in the start of an expected wave of lawsuits.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Opera said yesterday it will investigate accusations of sexual misconduct against Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, as two organizations canceled planned appearances by him.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed off his Sept.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two experimental drugs showed survival rates of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in Congo.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s airport resumed operations yesterday, rescheduling hundreds of flights that had been disrupted over the past two days as protesters clashed with riot police in a deepening crisis in the Chinese-controlled city.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered the removal of the warden at the federal jail where financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, the Justice Department said yesterday, after condemning “serious irregularities” at the facility.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s domestic passenger vehicle sales in July dived at the steepest pace in nearly two decades, an auto industry body said yesterday, as a financing crunch deepened a crisis in the country’s autos sector and triggered large-scale job losses.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two experimental drugs showed survival rates of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in Congo.

(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a sweeping rule yesterday that some experts say could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine President Mauricio Macri vowed yesterday to win a second term despite a surprisingly strong performance by the opposition in the primary election that set off a shockwave through markets, crashing the peso currency and sending stocks and bonds tumbling.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s airport reopened yesterday but its administrator warned that flight movements would still be affected, after China said protests that have swept the city over the past two months had begun to show the “sprouts of terrorism”.

(Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr yesterday criticized “serious irregularities” at the federal prison where Jeffrey Epstein died in an apparent suicide, adding that the sex-trafficking investigation involving the disgraced financier would continue.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s incoming president Alejandro Giammattei has vowed to seek better terms for his country from an unpopular migration deal agreed with Washington last month, but any room for maneuver is seen as likely to be hampered by weakness in the national Congress.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – A Swiss prosecutor said yesterday he was seeking prison terms for Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and two associates over the alleged payment of bribes linked to the allocation of mining licences in Guinea between 2005 and 2010.