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DUBAI/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman yesterday that drove up oil prices and raised concerns about a new U.S.-Iranian

MEMPHIS, Tenn.,  (Reuters) – A young black man slain by federal agents as they tried to arrest him in Memphis, touching off violent protests, was wanted in the shooting of a man in Mississippi earlier this month, law enforcement officials said on Thursday.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled yesterday that homophobia should be criminalized under existing legislation until Congress creates a specific law for the subject, weighing in on a topic that has drawn the ire of President Jair Bolsonaro.

MEXICO CITY,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ecuador’s decision to allow same-sex marriage has topped a landmark week for LGBT+ rights after Botswana decriminalised gay sex and Bhutan took the first steps to do so, said campaigners marking the 50th anniversary of the gay equality movement.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. government watchdog agency yesterday recommended Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, be fired for repeatedly violating U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, who has pledged to deliver Brexit on Oct.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – A few thousand protesters in Hong Kong yesterday readied for potentially more clashes with police over a planned extradition law with mainland China, a day after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at unarmed demonstrators.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. House committee voted yesterday in favour of holding two of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers in contempt of Congress for defying congressional subpoenas related to an effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s police force vowed yesterday that it would do more to fight organized crime in the violent Central American country, which tens of thousands have fled, amid increased pressure from the United States to stop migration north.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson kicked off his campaign to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday with a commitment to lead Britain out of the European Union on Oct.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Mexican government has called out fashion house Carolina Herrera for the “cultural appropriation” of indigenous patterns and textiles from Mexico in its latest collection.

NEW YORK,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States creates more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions through its defense operations alone than industrialized countries such as Sweden and Portugal, researchers said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Groups challenging the Trump administration’s contentious decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators who threw plastic bottles on Wednesday as protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial descended into violent chaos.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Chaotic scenes erupted in Hong Kong today as tens of thousands of demonstrators stormed key roads next to government offices to protest against a proposed extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump brandished a document yesterday confirming details of a regional asylum project agreed with Mexico to stave off threatened tariffs, saying the plan was “secret” even though Mexican officials had revealed much of it.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Botswana decriminalised homosexuality yesterday, with the High Court overturning a colonial-era law that punished gay sex by up to seven years in prison.

BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – Bodies recovered from a massacre of almost 100 people by a Malian ethnic militia included at least 24 children, many of them shot in the back, the prime minister said during a visit to the crime scene yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian police abruptly dropped drugs charges yesterday against journalist Ivan Golunov, a rare U-turn by the authorities in the face of anger from his supporters who had alleged he was framed for his reporting and had threatened to stage a mass protest in Moscow.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Former Pemex Chief Executive Emilio Lozoya, who is wanted in a major Mexican anti-graft investigation, said in a statement on Monday that he would not appear in front of a federal judge.