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SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday its latest missile launch was a warning to South Korean “warmongers” to stop importing weapons and conducting joint military drills, a message analysts said was also aimed at the United States.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesia plans to close its eastern island of Komodo to the public next year in a bid to conserve rare Komodo dragons, the largest living species of lizard, a provincial official said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega, who came to leverage a rare level of political influence in Cuba for someone outside the Communist Party and played a key role in the island’s now defunct detente with the United States, died yesterday at the age of 82.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Sweden today dismissed an angry outburst from U.S.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The hot air that smashed European weather records this week looks set to move towards Greenland and could cause record melting of the world’s second largest ice sheet, the United Nations said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions yesterday on 10 people and 13 groups in a Venezuelan food subsidy scheme the U.S.

SEOUL/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired two new short-range ballistic missiles yesterday, South Korean and U.S.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Sixteen U.S. Marines were arrested yesterday at their base in Southern California on suspicion of drug-related offenses and the smuggling of undocumented migrants along the U.S.-Mexico

BAN NONG CHAN, Thailand, (Reuters) – By this time of year, the Mekong River should have been rising steadily with the monsoon rains, bringing fishermen a bounty of fat fish.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired two new short-range ballistic missiles today, South Korean officials said, its first missile test since its leader, Kim Jong Un, and U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller emphasized yesterday he had not exonerated Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, as the president has claimed, but his long-awaited congressional testimony did little to add momentum to any Democratic impeachment ambitions and Trump heartily declared victory.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson  promised in his first speech as prime minister to lead Britain out of the European Union on Oct.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson promised yesterday that Brexit would make Britain the greatest place on earth, echoing the patriotic rhetoric of U.S.

(Reuters) – A federal judge in San Francisco yesterday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new rule that aimed to bar almost all asylum applications at the U.S.-Mexico

(Reuters) – Jeffrey Epstein, the financier facing charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls, was found unconscious in a Manhattan jail cell with injuries to his neck, media reported late yesterday, citing unidentified sources.

SAN JUAN,  (Reuters) – Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló yesterday said he would resign after almost two weeks of protests calling for him to step down over a scandal involving offensive chat messages and government corruption that rocked the bankrupt island.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller today told a dramatic U.S.

 (Reuters) – Two teenagers, first categorized as missing in Canada, are now suspects in the murder of an Australian tourist, his American girlfriend and an unidentified man whose body was found near the teens’ abandoned, flaming car, police said on Tuesday.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turkey celebrated incoming British prime minister Boris Johnson’s Turkish heritage today, with politicians and media proclaiming that the “Ottoman grandson” could strengthen ties between two countries on Europe’s fringes.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Taking over as Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson is today expected unveil a more diverse top team in a government to be tasked with delivering Brexit by the end of October, with or without a deal.