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NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Office equipment for Kenya’s parliament donated by China has gone missing after being loaded onto a shipping container, authorities from both nations said last week.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who oversaw Brazil’s biggest corruption probe as a federal judge, said yesterday he has no interest in elected office and that President Jair Bolsonaro is his candidate for the 2022 election.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s airport halted flights today, blaming demonstrators for the disruption, while China said the anti-government protests that have swept the city over the past two months had begun to show “sprouts of terrorism”.

 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a sweeping rule today that would limit legal immigration by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said yesterday President Nicolas Maduro’s government is preparing to dissolve the opposition-run legislature and call new legislative elections, potentially escalating Venezuela’s political crisis.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Conservative Alejandro Giammattei was poised for a decisive victory in Guatemala’s presidential election yesterday, taking a commanding lead over his centre-left rival, former first lady Sandra Torres, preliminary results showed.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine voters soundly rejected President Mauricio Macri’s austere economic policies in primary elections yesterday, raising serious questions about his chances of re-election in October, early official results showed.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Metro stations in Hong Kong resumed regular service yesterday and streets were being cleaned of debris as the city recovered from another night of violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police, with more protests planned this week.

(Reuters) – New York City’s chief medical examiner is confident Jeffrey Epstein died by hanging himself in the jail cell where he was being held without bail on sex-trafficking charges, but is awaiting more information before releasing her determination, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing a city official.

DHAKA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As countries around the world try to cut down on throw-away plastic shopping bags, Bangladesh is hoping to cash in on an alternative: plastic-like bags made from jute, the plant fibre used to produce burlap bags.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s state communications watchdog has asked Google to stop advertising “illegal mass events” on its YouTube video platform, it said yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years yesterday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead yesterday after an apparent suicide in the New York jail cell where he was being held without bail on sex-trafficking charges, and a source said he was not on suicide watch at the time of his death.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s opposition Congress party selected past president Sonia Gandhi as its interim leader yesterday, while it searches for a successor to her son Rahul Gandhi, who quit following a crushing election defeat by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Germany will partially suspend funds sent to Brazil to finance projects aimed at preserving the Amazon forest due to increasing deforestation, Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years yesterday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead today after an apparent suicide in the New York jail cell where he was being held without bail on sex-trafficking charges, and a source said he was not on suicide watch at the time of his death.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic foreign policy leaders in the U.S.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – An upstart Canadian right-wing political party announced yesterday that “ending official multiculturalism and preserving Canadian values and culture” will be part of its platform for the Canadian federal election in October.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Slumping sales of cars and motorcycles are triggering massive job cuts in India’s auto sector, with many companies forced to shut down factories for days and axe shifts, multiple sources said.