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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday it was time to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights that Israel seized from Syria in 1967, marking a dramatic shift in U.S.

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Michel Temer was arrested today in an investigation of alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant, prosecutors said, threatening to delay debate over the government’s ambitious fiscal reforms.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A London museum has handed back locks of hair cut from the corpse of an Ethiopian emperor during a British invasion 150 years ago, after a campaign by activists seeking the return of hundreds of pieces of colonial plunder.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May made an impassioned appeal to British lawmakers to support her yesterday after the European Union said it could only grant her request to delay Brexit for three months if parliament next week backed her plans for leaving.

BEIRA, Mozambique,  (Reuters) – Aid workers rushed to save people trapped by floods around the Mozambican port city of Beira yesterday, after a powerful cyclone killed hundreds and left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio met yesterday with the Haitian president and members of parliament and discussed the formation of a new Cabinet following the ouster this week of Jean Henry Ceant as prime minister.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – The Nicaraguan government said yesterday it would release within 90 days all people arrested during several months of protests against President Daniel Ortega, as a step to restarting dialogue with opposition groups.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc plans to sell several tons of gold placed as collateral by Venezuela’s central bank on a $1.6 billion loan after the deadline for repurchasing them expired this month, sources said, a setback for President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to hold onto the country’s fast-shrinking reserves.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Executives at Vale SA , the world’s largest iron ore miner, quashed efforts by Brazilian authorities to audit one of its mining dams months before it collapsed and killed over 300 people, a state prosecutor said, according to the news website G1.

OTTAWA/TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained under pressure over a corruption scandal yesterday as a legislator quit his party’s caucus and a pre-election budget aimed at swaying key voters appeared to offer too little to stem the tide of negative news.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Amnesty International attacked the electric vehicle (EV) industry yesterday for selling itself as environmentally friendly while producing many of its batteries using polluting fossil fuels and unethically sourced minerals.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi had been arrested in London on behalf of the Indian authorities, British police said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Brazil’s new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro forged a bond over their shared brand of conservative and populist politics yesterday, with Trump pledging to give more U.S.

SEATTLE,  (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s commercial airplane division, facing its biggest crisis in years following deadly crashes of its flagship 737 MAX aircraft, has brought in a new vice president of engineering while dedicating another top executive to the aircraft investigations, a company email showed yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will ask the European Union to delay Brexit by at least three months after her plan to hold a third vote on her fraught divorce deal was thrown into disarray by a surprise intervention from the speaker of parliament.

(Reuters) – Preet Bharara, the ex-U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, has a piece of unsolicited advice for President Donald Trump: don’t meddle with investigations being pursued by his former office, especially one involving the Trump business or a family member.

MAPUTO/HARARE,  (Reuters) – The number of people killed in a powerful cyclone and flooding in Mozambique has risen above 200, more than doubling the country’s death toll from a storm that could rank as one of the worst weather-related disasters in the southern hemisphere.

(Reuters) – A U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer, a blow to the company eight months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different case.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – A Bangladesh court granted FIFA council member Mahfuza Akhter Kiron bail yesterday, her lawyer said, days after she was arrested on suspicion of defamation after saying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was neglecting football in the cricket-mad country.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – Thousands of students, university professors and health workers rallied in Algiers on Tuesday calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to quit, and a new group headed by activists and opposition figures told the army not to interfere.