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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

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – The Canadian government, as expected, yesterday approved extradition proceedings against the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, prompting a furious reaction from China.

WASHINGTON/ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday ramped up its attempt to dislodge Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power, imposing new sanctions and revoking visas of senior officials, while opposition leader Juan Guaido toured South America to drum up support.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Human rights advocates yesterday urged Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega to free 566 people still in custody that the opposition considers political prisoners following an initial release of detainees from a simmering political crisis.

(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators said on Friday a third cancer-causing toxin was found in some blood pressure pills recalled by India’s Hetero Labs Ltd a day earlier, adding to a global recall of commonly used drugs to treat hypertension.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered state oil company PDVSA’s office in Lisbon to be relocated to Moscow, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said today, a move she said was designed to help safeguard her country’s assets.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Dutch prosecutors are preparing criminal charges against Royal Dutch Shell over its $1.3 billion acquisition of Nigerian offshore oilfield OPL 245 in 2011.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – A second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un collapsed yesterday over sanctions, and the two sides gave conflicting accounts of what happened, raising questions about the future of their denuclearisation negotiations.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rica yesterday opened a major new container port on an island built off its Caribbean coast that could deliver a major boost to trade in the Central American country and increase competition for the Panama Canal.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Portugal has declared a day of mourning for victims of domestic violence after data showed attackers had murdered 11 women so far this year – the highest number in a decade.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Sudanese rallied yesterday in some of the most widespread protests of a two-month revolt against President Omar al-Bashir, as emergency courts tried hundreds late into the night and Bashir delegated his powers as head of the ruling party to its deputy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen was “fully cooperative” during closed-door testimony before a congressional committee investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S

HANOI, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he had walked away from a nuclear deal at his summit with Kim Jong Un in Vietnam today because of unacceptable demands from the North Korean leader to lift punishing U.S.-led

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen accused him of breaking the law while in office and said for the first time that Trump knew in advance about a WikiLeaks dump of stolen emails that hurt his 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton.