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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.

ADDIS ABABA,  (Reuters) – A museum in Britain has agreed to return a ruler’s locks of hair cut from his corpse by a British soldier more than 150 years ago, Ethiopia said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – Ray Kelvin resigned as chief executive of British retailer Ted Baker on Monday, seeking to allow the fashion brand he founded to move on from misconduct allegations stemming from his habit of hugging colleagues.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – As Special Counsel Robert Mueller has pursued his investigation into Moscow’s role in the 2016 U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The House Judiciary Committee will seek documents from more than 60 people and organizations as it begins investigations into possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by President Donald Trump, the panel’s chairman said yesterday.

(Reuters) – At least fourteen people, some of them children, died after a tornado swept through Lee County, Alabama yesterday, destroying numerous homes and leaving a death toll that could rise as rescuers sift through the rubble, Sheriff Jay Jones said.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, facing mass protests over his 20 years in power, will run in April’s elections, his campaign manager said yesterday, with Ennahar TV saying he had offered to step down after a year if re-elected.

CARACAS/SALINAS, Ecuador,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said yesterday he would return home to lead new protests against President Nicolas Maduro on Monday, running the risk authorities arrest him given that he flouted a travel ban to leave the country last week.

CAMPO NOVO DE RONDONIA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Ten days after Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took office, dozens of men entered protected indigenous land in a remote corner of the Amazon, hacking a pathway beneath the jungle canopy.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Britain launched a global “period poverty” fund and taskforce today to help all women and girls access sanitary products by 2050 and to tackle the stigma around menstruation.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA is dismissing Chief Executive Fabio Schvartsman, as well as several other high-ranking employees, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters yesterday, after one of its mining dams burst in January killing hundreds.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday that North Korea had a bright economic future if the two countries made a deal, but did not have any economic future with nuclear weapons.

ALGIERS/GENEVA, (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has changed his campaign manager for an April election in which he is expected to seek a fifth term, state news agency APS said yesterday.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s main opposition party leader Sadiq al-Mahdi yesterday called on President Omar al-Bashir to step down and sit with the opposition to agree on details of a transitional process to end the nation’s crisis, a statement from his party said.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people in cities across Algeria called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to leave office yesterday in the country’s biggest anti-government demonstrations since the Arab Spring eight years ago.

SEOUL/HANOI,  (Reuters) – South Korea will work with the United States and North Korea to help them reach a denuclearisation deal, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said yesterday, a day after a U.S.-North