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SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian journalists could face jail for holding classified information, authorities and lawmakers said on Thursday, as police appeared to broaden the scope of their investigation after raids on two media organisations.

VANCOUVER, Canada,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Enacting the sweeping recommendations of a Canadian government report that called the deaths of indigenous women and girls a “genocide” will take work, commitment, courage and vision, the head of the inquiry said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Mexican and U.S. officials are set to resume talks in Washington today aimed at averting an imposition of tariffs on Mexican goods, with President Donald Trump saying “not enough” progress on ways to curb migration was made when the two sides met yesterday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The head of a Mexican-based church, which claims over 1 million followers worldwide, was ordered held on $50 million bail in a Los Angeles court yesterday on charges that included human trafficking, child pornography and rape of a minor.

(Reuters) – An Ohio doctor was charged with 25 counts of murder for administering high and sometimes fatal doses of opioid painkillers to dozens of very sick patients, prosecutors said yesterday.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Senegalese President Macky Sall said yesterday the government would find out the truth after a report alleged his brother Aliou Sall had been involved in fraud related to two major offshore gas blocks operated by BP .

(Reuters) – Major U.S. cruise operators said yesterday they will no longer sail to Cuba following the Trump administration’s ban on travel to the Caribbean island, angering travelers and prompting worries about trip cancellations and company earnings.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Days after this year’s “Mass Games” debuted before North Korea’s top leadership, the huge pageant has been put on hold after leader Kim Jong Un expressed his dissatisfaction, foreign tour groups said today.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Trump administration banned cruises to Cuba under new restrictions on U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, once a close aide to President Donald Trump, has agreed to turn over documents related to his 2016 election campaign to congressional investigators, a top Democratic lawmaker said yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, according to data from an early-warning satellite system, as experts pointed to activity by illegal loggers encouraged by the easing of environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro received the diplomatic credentials of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido’s envoy to Brazil, formally recognizing her as the ambassador of the neighbouring country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump waded into Britain’s political crisis yesterday by telephoning Boris Johnson, the Brexit-supporting favourite to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government is gearing up to investigate whether Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google misuse their massive market power, sources told Reuters yesterday, setting up what could be an unprecedented, wide-ranging probe of some of the world’s largest companies.

(BBC) The BBC yesterday morning exposed how oil giant BP promised as much as $10 billion to one of the world’s most notorious businessmen, in exchange for a stake in much coveted natural gas fields off the coast of Senegal.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump and Queen Elizabeth hailed the bonds between the United States and the United Kingdom on Monday after the U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) said yesterday it canceled all previous agreements with the main opposition coalition and called for snap elections following deadly violence in the capital Khartoum after security forces moved to disperse the main protest camp outside the Defense Ministry.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s decision to repeal decrees that have sparked violent demonstrations against his government in recent days failed to stop protesters from returning to the streets on Monday.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Protesters burned and looted some 30 shipping containers marked with the logo of the Dole Food Company in Honduras yesterday, a military official said, in the second attack on symbols of U.S.

BELLINZONA, Switzerland,  (Reuters) – The United States is prepared to engage with Iran without pre-conditions about its nuclear programme but needs to see the country behaving like “a normal nation”, U.S.