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(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.

SRINAGAR, (Reuters) – Indian police used tear gas and pellets to fight back at least 10,000 people protesting Delhi’s withdrawal of special rights for Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state in its main city of Srinagar yesterday, a police official and two witnesses said.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysia filed criminal charges yesterday against 17 current and former directors at subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs Group Inc following an investigation into a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal that led to the demise of state fund 1MDB.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysia filed criminal charges today against 17 current and former directors at subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs Group Inc following an investigation into a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal that led to the demise of state fund 1MDB.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tens of thousands of Venezuelans fleeing turmoil at home face perilous new journeys and risk falling into the hands of criminal gangs after three South American countries clamped down on the mass exodus, the United Nations and experts say.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Four LGBT+ people are murdered every day in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to “alarming” new research released yesterday by a regional network of gay rights groups.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia has broken up a criminal network which helped companies evade some $670 million in value added taxes over the last 12 years, President Ivan Duque said yesterday, in an operation he said was a “really hard hit” to corruption.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court yesterday rejected Facebook Inc’s effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users without their consent.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday that an Army officer who was convicted of torture during the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship was a “national hero.”