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McALLEN, Texas,  (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic lawmakers yesterday called President Donald Trump’s latest anti-immigration initiatives “unacceptable” and warned his administration against misappropriating funding authorized only for humanitarian use.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Three French soldiers died from toxic fumes during an operation targeting illegal gold miners in French Guiana, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s anti-corruption watchdog said today that President Cyril Ramaphosa had “deliberately misled” parliament about a 500,000 rand ($35,900) donation he received for his 2017 election campaign for the leadership of the ruling ANC.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump tried to distance himself yesterday from supporters’ chants of “send her back” at a rally where he blasted Somalia-born U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday that a U.S.

KYOTO, Japan,  (Reuters) – A man suspected of torching an animation studio in western Japan shouted that he had been plagiarised and appeared to have planned the attack, media said yesterday after a blaze that killed 33 people in Japan’s worst mass killing in two decades.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reducing its 2019 oil demand forecast due to a slowing global economy amid a U.S.-China

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – FBI documents unsealed yesterday suggest that Donald Trump was actively involved in engineering a hush-money payment shortly before the 2016 election to a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with him, as his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, campaign team and others scrambled to head off a scandal.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British lawmakers yesterday approved proposals to make it harder for the next prime minister to force through a no-deal Brexit by suspending parliament, showing again their resolve to stop a divorce from the European Union without an agreement.

LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s anti-corruption agency arrested former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi today, drawing a furious response from opposition parties, which accused the government of trying to silence its opponents.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Thirty people were feared dead in an arson attack on a Japanese animation studio today, authorities said, after a man was seen shouting “die” as he doused the building with fuel in the nation’s worst mass killing in nearly two decades.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to sideline an impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump, effectively killing the measure for now but not burying the issue that has divided Democrats.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization yesterday declared Congo’s Ebola outbreak an international health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm after the virus threatened to spread to a major city and into neighbouring countries.

GREENVILLE, North Carolina/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump intensified his vilification of four liberal lawmakers as un-American at a raucous rally yesterday, underscoring that the attacks will be a key part of his strategy for winning re-election in 2020.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt for defying congressional subpoenas related to the U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Boeing Co said yesterday it will dedicate half of a $100 million fund it created after two crashes of its 737 MAX planes to provide payments to families of those killed, with veteran U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday that it was removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet programme, a move long threatened and expected after Ankara began accepting delivery of an advanced Russian missile defense system last week.

LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan authorities today arrested Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of a four-day militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terror finance charges, a spokesman for the chief minister of Punjab province said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord who twice escaped maximum-security prisons in that country, will spend the rest of his life in a U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to condemn President Donald Trump for “racist comments” against four minority Democratic congresswomen, a symbolic measure aimed at shaming Trump and his fellow Republicans who stood by him.