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SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro and federal prosecutors scrambled to respond yesterday to reports published by news website The Intercept based on what it said were leaked messages from a corruption probe.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada plans to ban some single-use plastics like straws, bags and cutlery by early 2021 to reduce non-recyclable waste and protect the world’s oceans, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats yesterday struck a rare deal in their wide-ranging probes of President Donald Trump, with the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A helicopter crashed onto the fog-shrouded roof of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper yesterday, killing the pilot and unnerving a city still scarred by memories of the Sept.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was arrested on corruption charges yesterday in a blow to the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party over what media said was an investigation into false bank accounts and money laundering.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua said yesterday it released 50 political prisoners under a new law that frees people arrested amid a year of anti-government protests while also protecting police and others who violently clamped down on the demonstrations.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A helicopter made a crash landing onto the roof of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper today, killing at least one person and sending a plume of smoke skyward from the top of the building, which was shrouded in fog.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was arrested on corruption charges today in a blow to the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party over what media said was an investigation into false bank accounts and money laundering.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong was plunged into a fresh political crisis yesterday after more than half a million people took to the streets to thwart a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China to face trial.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump defended his administration’s deal with Mexico against criticism that there were no major new commitments to stem a flow of Central American migrants crossing into the United States, and said yesterday more details would soon be released.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s Congress approved a sweeping amnesty law during a Saturday session that will offer protection to police and others who took part in a violent clampdown on anti-government protesters over the past year.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – A campaign of civil disobedience to demand civilian rule left the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum largely deserted as the working week began yesterday, while a 20-year-old man was shot dead in Omdurman, witnesses and opposition medics said.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Several hundred thousand people jammed Hong Kong’s streets today in the biggest rally for years to thwart a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China to face trial.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday predicted Mexico would strongly enforce a new deal under which it agreed to expand a controversial asylum program and boost security on its southern border to stem Central American migrants trying to reach the United States.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov was placed under two months’ house arrest in Moscow yesterday while he is investigated for drug peddling, as a court rejected a request from investigators to hold him in custody.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian government has confiscated three properties from a Chinese national after a joint money-laundering investigation with China, police said yesterday.

SANTIAGO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Chile’s new climate change plan, unveiled by President Sebastian Pinera last week, puts the host of this year’s U.N.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico avoided the most extreme immigration concession sought by U.S.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico struck a deal yesterday to avert a tariff war, with Mexico agreeing to rapidly expand a controversial asylum programme and deploy security forces to stem the flow of illegal Central American migrants.

NEW YORK,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday he would contribute $500 million toward closing coal-fired power plants across the United States, in a clash with White House effort to revive a fossil fuel blamed for climate change.