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GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The United Nations must drop its bureaucratic timidity and stand up to its member states if it is to tackle global problems, a top U.N.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday handed President Donald Trump a stinging defeat, blocking his contentious citizenship question planned for the 2020 census because officials gave a “contrived” rationale and prompting Trump to suggest an extraordinary delay in the constitutionally mandated population count.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives backed down to President Donald Trump and passed a $4.6 billion aid package to address a migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – At least 41 artisanal miners were killed yesterday when part of a copper and cobalt mine owned by Glencore collapsed in southeast Congo, the provincial governor said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An ex-Venezuelan electricity minister and another former official at the country’s electricity ministry yesterday were placed under U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday he would not sign any trade deal with Brazil if President Jair Bolsonaro pulled out of the Paris climate accord, threatening to put a spanner in the works of EU-Mercosur trade negotiations.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris confronted front-runner Joe Biden on race during a debate yesterday, saying Biden’s remarks about working with pro-segregationist senators were “hurtful” and questioning his 1970s opposition to school busing.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court today handed President Donald Trump a stinging defeat, blocking his contentious citizenship question planned for the 2020 census because officials gave a “contrived” rationale and prompting Trump to suggest an extraordinary delay in the constitutionally mandated population count.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Ten Democrats took the stage in the first Democratic debate of the 2020 U.S.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian unemployment is at an all-time low and businesses have a message for politicians ahead of October’s national election: We need foreign workers so do not make the campaign about keeping them out.

MATAMOROS, Mexico,  (Reuters) – A harrowing photo of a Salvadoran migrant and his young daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico

PHILADELPHIA,  (Reuters) – Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) will seek to permanently shut its oil refinery in the city after a massive fire caused substantial damage to the complex, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a day after sources told Reuters about the plans.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan prosecutors raided the offices of the Supreme Election Tribunal to investigate alleged discrepancies in the vote count for the first round of a presidential election this month, the attorney general’s office said yesterday. 

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Hackers working for China’s Ministry of State Security broke into networks of eight of the world’s biggest technology service providers in an effort to steal commercial secrets from their clients, according to sources familiar with the attacks.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British grandmother who has never strayed onto the wrong side of the law in all her 93 years has fulfilled one of her dearest wishes – to be arrested.

MANAMA,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration launched a $50 billion economic formula for Israeli-Palestinian peace yesterday, saying an investment programme for the Palestinians was a precondition for ending the decades-old conflict.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who issued a report in April on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, will testify in open session before the House of Representatives Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17, the panels’ Democratic chairmen said yesterday.

WASHINGTON/DUBAI, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened yesterday to obliterate parts of Iran if it attacked “anything American,” in a new war of words with Iran which condemned fresh U.S.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Four men with suspected ties to the Islamic State militant group were captured yesterday by members of the Nicaraguan armed forces after entering the country illegally from Costa Rica, Nicaraguan police said.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday delayed until August its decision on an appeal by imprisoned former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who argued he should be freed because leaked private messages showed that the judge who convicted him was not impartial.