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TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez yesterday sent out the armed forces to impose order after protests against his embattled administration descended into lawlessness overnight in parts of the capital, claiming two lives.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s Constitutional Court yestetray ruled against a request to require community consultations for a planned mining project, allowing Australia’s SolGold to move forward with developing its Cascabel copper, gold and silver mine.

DUBAI/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Iran today shot down a U.S. military drone that it said was flying over one of its southern provinces on the Gulf, increasing fears of military conflict as Washington seeks to isolate Tehran over its nuclear and regional activities.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro said yesterday that a criminal organization was responsible for leaks of his private messages as a federal judge, which raised questions about his ethics while overseeing a major corruption probe.

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands,  (Reuters) – Three Russians and a Ukrainian will face murder charges for the deaths of 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, the international investigative team said yesterday.

GENEVA/RIYADH,  (Reuters) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other senior officials should be investigated over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi given credible evidence against them, a U.N.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Pro-government forces in Nicaragua committed human rights abuses including torture in suppressing recent protests against President Daniel Ortega, and top officials should face sanctions, Human Rights Watch said in a report yesterday.

SAN JOSE,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Despite a harsh drought this year, Costa Rica – which relies heavily on hydropower – has been able to keep its electricity production almost entirely renewable.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Keith Raniere, a New York man accused of running a cult-like group in which women were kept on starvation diets, branded with his initials and ordered to have sex with him, was found guilty of all charges against him by a New York jury on Wednesday.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Evidence suggests Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman and other senior Saudi officials are liable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.N.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ruled out negotiations with criminal gangs yesterday and vowed to go after their finances in a bid to reduce violence in the Central American country.

VATICAN CITY,   (Reuters) – A Vatican document today said the Church should consider ordaining older married men as priests in remote areas of the Amazon, a historic shift which some say could pave the way for their use in other areas where clergy are scarce.

(Reuters) – Federal authorities seized 16.5 tons of cocaine worth more than $1 billion from a ship in Philadelphia in one of the largest drug seizures in U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan abandoned his quest for the top Pentagon job on Tuesday as reports emerged of domestic violence in his family, plunging the leadership of the U.S.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate yesterday overturned a decree signed last month by right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro that drastically expanded the number of people allowed to carry weapons in public.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson got a fresh boost in the race to become Britain’s prime minister today when a another former rival in the race backed him to lead the country out of its Brexit crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday that U.S. authorities would begin next week removing millions of immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt’s modern history, died yesterday from a heart attack after collapsing in a Cairo court while on trial on espionage charges, authorities and a medical source said.

WASHINGTON/DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announc-ed yesterday the deployment of about 1,000 more troops to the Middle East for what he said were defensive purposes, citing concerns about a threat from Iran.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration yesterday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, after Trump blasted the three countries because thousands of their citizens had sought asylum at the U.S.