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GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Three dozen countries, including all 28 EU members, called on Saudi Arabia yesterday to release 10 activists and cooperate with a U.N.-led

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States has indicted the daughter of the late president of Uzbekistan on corruption charges for allegedly using her official position to solicit more than $865 million in bribes from three telecommunications companies, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. Appeals Court ruled yesterday that immigrants ordered deported by U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department indicted Mozambique’s former finance minister, along with eight executives, officials and investment bankers, over their alleged roles in a $2 billion fraud and money laundering scheme, the department said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A major power outage hit crisis-stricken Venezuela yesterday, according to Reuters witnesses, a problem the government of President Nicolas Maduro quickly blamed on “sabotage” at a hydroelectric dam that provides much of the country’s power.Electricity

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Three dozen countries, including all 28 EU members, called on Saudi Arabia on Thursday to release 10 activists and cooperate with a U.N.-led

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – A former top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denied yesterday inappropriately pressuring a Cabinet member to help a major company as Trudeau planned to address a scandal that is threatening his prospects in an October election.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A lavishly detailed 445-page report by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr released by the U.S.

WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump looked set to open a new front in his trade wars with a plan to end preferential trade treatment for India that allows duty-free entry for up to $5.6 billion worth of its exports to the United States.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shows every sign of trying to battle his way through the biggest crisis of his tenure even as opinion polls show he stands a real chance of losing power in an election this October.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is considering imposing new sanctions on Venezuela to increase pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government to give up power, U.S.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan said yesterday it had begun a crackdown on Islamist militant groups, detaining 44 members of banned organizations including close relatives of the leader of a group blamed for a deadly bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir last month.

MONROVIA,  (Reuters) – The son of Liberia’s ex-president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, an ex-central bank governor and current bank official were charged with economic sabotage late on Monday after investigations uncovered evidence of possible malpractice by the regulator.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Some radio stations in Canada and the Netherlands stopped playing Michael Jackson’s music and fans bombarded Oprah Winfrey with hateful messages after the broadcast of a documentary about alleged child abuse by the late singer.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – New Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital city in 2018, two groups monitoring air pollution said on Tuesday in a study of the amount of fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 in 61 capital cities around the world.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – In a serious blow to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a second member of his Cabinet resigned yesterday, saying she had lost confidence in how the government had dealt with an escalating political scandal.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress unleashed an unexpectedly sweeping series of demands in their investigations of President Donald Trump yesterday, seeking information about his communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin and documents from 81 sources in an obstruction probe.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slammed opposition parties for demanding evidence about last week’s military strike inside Pakistan, and support for him is rising, pollsters say, despite the questions about how successful it was.

CARACAS, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido returned to his country yesterday after flouting a court-imposed travel ban by touring Latin American countries to boost support for his campaign to tighten regional pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.

BEAUREGARD, Ala.,  (Reuters) – Alabama residents and rescue teams yesterday sifted through the splintered remnants of homes torn apart by a string of tornadoes that killed at least 23 people, including three children, in the deadliest burst of twisters to hit the United States since 2013.