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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The largest-known U.S. uranium deposit will remain firmly under ground after the Supreme Court yesterday upheld Virginia’s ban on mining the radioactive metal, rebuffing a challenge backed by President Donald Trump’s administration to the 1982 moratorium.

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.

KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Sudan’s ex-president Omar al-Bashir was charged with corruption-related offences yesterday, as he appeared in public for the first time since he was overthrown and detained in April.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s political crisis enters its second week today as uncertainty mounts over the fate of government leader Carrie Lam and an extradition bill she postponed at the weekend.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – Youth unemployment in South Africa has become a “national crisis”, President Cyril Ramaphosa said yesterday at an event commemorating youth activism during the apartheid era.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Power returned to much of Argentina and two neighbouring countries following a massive blackout that left tens of millions in the dark yesterday, but Argentine President Mauricio Macri said the cause of the “unprecedented” outage was still unclear.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, appeared in court yesterday to admit criminal wrongdoing over the misuse of state funds to order catered meals, in a plea bargain carrying no jail time.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Major businesses in Brazil are using court injunctions to avoid being named and shamed on the country’s slave labor “dirty list” – a practice that prosecutors and judges said weakened a key tool designed to stop companies profiting from slavery.

TUMBES, Peru,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelans crossed into Peru despite a crackdown on migrants without passports or visas meant to stem the flood of immigration from their crisis-stricken nation, as many lacking those documents filed asylum requests instead.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of black-clad protesters in Hong Kong demanded today that the city’s leader step down over her handling of a bill that would have allowed extradition to China and which sparked one of the most violent protests in decades.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam yesterday indefinitely delayed a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city’s biggest and most violent street protests in decades.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Leaked personal messages published yesterday by a news website show the judge who led the corruption trial that jailed former Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva advised prosecutors to influence public opinion against the leftist leader.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will stand trial soon on corruption charges, while 41 former officials from his government are being investigated for suspected graft, the chief prosecutor said yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Leaked personal messages published today  by a news website show the judge who led the corruption trial that jailed former Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva advised prosecutors to influence public opinion against the leftist leader.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam today indefinitely delayed a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city’s biggest and most violent street protests in decades.

DUBAI/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers at the entrance to the Gulf and said it was seeking international consensus about the threat to shipping, despite Tehran denying involvement in the explosions at sea.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro said he would not resign over a scandal about leaked personal messages that raised doubts about his impartiality as the anti-corruption judge who jailed the country’s former leftist president.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis said yesterday that carbon pricing is “essential” to stem global warming – his clearest statement yet in support of penalising polluters – and appealed to climate change deniers to listen to science.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – A World Health Organization panel decided yesterday not to declare an international emergency over Congo’s Ebola outbreak despite its spread to Uganda this week, concluding such a declaration could cause too much economic harm.

LAUSANNE/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Women across Switzerland held a strike on Friday to highlight their wealthy nation’s poor record on female rights, recreating the passion of the first such walkout 28 years ago.