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LONDON (Reuters) – Oil and gas corporation BP plans to build a $25 million pilot plant to test new technology the energy company says will allow plastic bottles and food packaging to be recycled again and again.

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales  yesterday vowed to hold a run-off election if an audit of a vote count that gave him an outright win turns up evidence of fraud, as he sought to calm a sixth day of protests and international criticism over his disputed re-election to a fourth term.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A revelatory cache of fossils dug up in central Colorado details as never before the rise of mammals from the post-apocalyptic landscape after an asteroid smacked Earth 66 million years ago and annihilated three-quarters of all species including the dinosaurs.

VATICAN CIT (Reuters) – An assembly of Roman Catholic bishops from the Amazon yesterday proposed that married men in the remote area be allowed to be ordained priests, which could lead to a landmark change in the Church’s centuries-old discipline of celibacy.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales today vowed to hold a run-off election if an audit of a vote count that handed him an outright win finds evidence of fraud, as he sought to calm a sixth day of protests and international criticism over his disputed re-election to a fourth consecutive term.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – As many as a million Chileans protested yesterday in the capital Santiago in the biggest demonstrations yet since violence broke out a week ago over entrenched inequality in the South American nation.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday validated the legality of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and ordered his administration to hand over an unredacted copy of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s state security minister, Owen Ncube, over what it says is credible information of his involvement in “gross violations of human rights,” U.S.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – A mayor on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s list of local officials suspected to have drug links was killed by still unidentified gunmen yesterday, the latest high-profile killing in his war on drugs.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government said on Friday it would bar U.S.

 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge today validated the legality of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and ordered his administration to hand over an unredacted copy of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Boeing, acting without adequate oversight from U.S. regulators, failed to grasp risks in the design of cockpit software on its 737 MAX airliner, sowing the seeds for a Lion Air crash that also involved errors by airline workers and crew, Indonesian investigators found.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales rebuked a regional election observer mission yesterday for questioning the legitimacy of what he insisted was an outright win for him in the first round of a disputed election.

LONDON  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson called yesterday for a general election on Dec.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republicans yesterday pressed their campaign to discredit the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence yesterday accused China of curtailing “rights and liberties” in Hong Kong and blasted U.S.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – The Solomon Islands government says a contract signed by one of its provinces to lease the entire island of Tulagi to a Chinese company is unlawful and should be terminated.

STRASBOURG/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The European Parliament awarded its annual prize for the defence of human rights on Thursday to jailed ethnic Uighur economics professor Ilham Tohti, angering Beijing which called him a criminal and a terrorist.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – The state of Massachusetts sued Exxon Mobil Corp today, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors and consumers for decades about the role fossil fuels play in climate change.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London are believed to be Chinese nationals, police said on Thursday, as they questioned the driver detained on suspicion of murder.