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MOSCOW/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Russia carried out what it said was its first long-range joint air patrol in the Asia-Pacific region with China yesterday, a mission that triggered hundreds of warning shots, according to South Korean officials, and a strong protest from Japan.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Federal Trade Commission is set to announce today that Facebook Inc has agreed to a sweeping settlement of significant allegations it mishandled user privacy and pay $5 billion, two people briefed on the matter said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said yesterday it had imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians it said were involved in trying to undermine democracy in presidential and parliamentary elections this year.

OTTAWA/TORONTO,  (Reuters) – A judge said yesterday that Canada’s chief electoral officer (CEO) must reconsider the Oct.

(Reuters) – Advanced brain scans of U.S. Embassy employees who reported falling ill while serving in Havana revealed significant differences from a control group, according to a new study published yesterday.

(Reuters) – A scant 35 people were taken into custody during a long-threatened U.S.

WASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he is considering a “ban,” tariffs and remittance fees after Guatemala decided not to ink a safe third country agreement that would have required the poor Central American country to take in more asylum seekers.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s Finance Minister Henry Rotich pleaded not guilty yesterday to corruption charges over the award of two dam tenders, in an unprecedented legal move against a sitting minister in a country notorious for graft.

CARACAS/MARACAIBO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Caracas residents woke up yesterday with the lights back on after the worst blackout since March knocked out power in half of Venezuela a day earlier, although service remained down in other states and some key oil infrastructure went offline.

BANJUL, (Reuters) – A Gambian army officer has testified that he and two colleagues shot dead journalist Deyda Hydara in 2004 on orders from then- President Yahya Jammeh, providing the first direct account of the previously unexplained killing.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia is examining proposals from the United States, Spain and Sweden as it look to replace its aging military aircraft, the South American country’s air force said yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi never asked U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, the Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by the end of October, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leadership of the Conservative Party today.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Former Chinese Premier Li Peng, reviled by rights activists and many in the Chinese capital as the “Butcher of Beijing” for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died, state media reported today.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenyan Finance Minister Henry Rotich was arrested yesterday on suspicion of financial misconduct related to the construction of two dams, an unprecedented detention of a sitting minister for corruption in a country notorious for graft.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he will watch only “a little bit” of Robert Mueller’s long-awaited congressional testimony on the results of his 22-month inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British minister and longstanding critic of Boris Johnson quit yesterday, the latest resignation before the presumed new prime minister takes office with a “do or die” pledge to leave the European Union with or without a deal.

SRIHARIKOTA/BENGALURU, India, (Reuters) – India launched a rocket into space yesterday in an attempt to safely land a rover on the moon, its most ambitious mission yet in the effort to establish itself as a low-cost space power.

LONDON/DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Britain called yesterday for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, days after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in what London described as an act of “state piracy” in the strategic waterway.

APAA, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The landscape is bucolic: shoulder-high grass, patches of woodland and the occasional homestead, all sloping down to the east bank of Uganda’s River Nile.