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DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s alliance won Bangladesh’s election with a thumping majority, the country’s Election Commission said early today, giving her a third straight term following a vote that the opposition rejected as rigged.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government is willing to help investigate a plot to assassinate Colombian President Ivan Duque, in which three Venezuelan nationals arrested in Colombia may be suspects, foreign minister Jorge Arreaza said.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – The main opposition camps in Congo’s presidential election yesterday complained of widespread irregularities after a chaotic vote disrupted by long queues, broken voting machines and torrential rain.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection yesterday defended his agents’ handling of two sick children who died in their custody, saying they did everything they could to get medical help for them in difficult circumstances.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter yesterday that he had a “long and very good call” with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that a possible trade deal between the United States and China was progressing well.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s trade minister Liam Fox said there is a “50-50” chance that Brexit may be stopped if parliament rejects the government’s divorce deal with the European Union next month.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Reporters will be the guests of honour at the New Year’s Eve party in New York’s Times Square on Monday, in what organizers said was a celebration of press freedom after an unusually deadly year for journalists at U.S.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Voters in Democratic Republic of Congo head to the polls today for a presidential election that could lead to the country’s first democratic transfer of power but has been marred by campaign violence and chaotic preparations.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces have killed 40 suspected militants in three separate incidents in North Sinai and Giza, the Interior Ministry said yesterday, a day after a bombing on a Vietnamese tourist bus in Giza killed four people.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump threatened yesterday to close the southern U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Prosecutors on Thursday charged a disgraced Brazilian faith healer with rape and sexual assault, following his arrest after allegations from hundreds of women who said he had sexually abused them while seeking spiritual guidance or psychic healing from him.

FREETOWN (Reuters) – A former Sierra Leone defence minister and his deputy were arrested yesterday as part of a crackdown by President Julius Maada Bio’s administration on alleged graft by its predecessor, the country’s anti-corruption commissioner said.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cash-strapped Cuba plans fresh austerity measures and will pressure the sluggish bureaucracy to tighten its belt and cut red tape to address weak growth, falling export earnings and rising debt.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Once a month for the last decade, Pepe Casanas, a 78-year-old Cuban farmer, has hunted down a scorpion to sting himself with, vowing that the venom wards off his rheumatism pains.

HIVARGAON/MUJAHIDPUR, India,  (Reuters) – A spike in the price of onions has led to the ouster of governments in Indian elections in the past.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Russian aluminium company Rusal said on Friday that its board of directors has elected Jean-Pierre Thomas as its new chairman as part of an agreed restructuring in exchange for the lifting of U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar U.S.

NENTON, Guatemala/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Migrant children will receive more thorough medical checks after an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died in U.S.

(Reuters) – The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 1,000 points for the first time yesterday, leading a broad Wall Street rebound after a report that holiday sales were the strongest in years helped mollify concerns about the health of the economy.