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SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government yesterday issued a statement saying it recognised Venezuela’s Congressional leader, who opposes President Nicolas Maduro, as the rightful president of Venezuela.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday described Venezuela’s government under President Nicolas Maduro as illegitimate and said the United States would work with like-minded countries in Latin America to restore democracy there.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A partial U.S. government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives committee will look into a newspaper report that the FBI investigated whether President Donald Trump has been working on behalf of Russia, against U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he would not declare a national emergency “right now” to end a standoff over border security that has idled large swaths of the U.S.

 (Reuters) – A 13-year-old girl’s escape from a rural home, where she was held captive for three months by a 21-year-old Wisconsin man charged with murdering her parents, helped break the case and she should be treated as a hero, the local sheriff said on Friday.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – The runner-up in Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential election said yesterday he in fact won a landslide victory with more than 60 percent of votes and will file a formal fraud complaint.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he is planning changes to the H-1B programme that grants temporarily visas to highly educated immigrants who work in specialty occupations such as technology or medicine.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The leader of Venezuela’s opposition-led congress said on Friday he was prepared to assume the country’s presidency on an interim basis and call elections, just one day after leftist President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for a disputed second term.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Despite more than a year of international engagement and promises of economic reform by North Korea’s leaders, the human rights situation in the isolated country remains dire, a top U.N.

YANGON, (Reuters) – A Myanmar court on Friday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act, saying the defence had not provided sufficient evidence to show they were innocent.

NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two Indian cricketers have sparked outrage after a run of misogynist comments on prime television, prompting calls for gender sensitisation in a sport rife with sex scandal.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro started a second term yesterday, defying critics in the United States and Latin America who called him an illegitimate usurper of a nation where economic chaos has wrought a humanitarian crisis.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Argentines marched through Buenos Aires yesterday carrying torches, in the first of a series of planned protests against President Mauricio Macri’s austerity program and the soaring cost of public services.

MCALLEN, Texas/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Flanked by border agents who are going without paychecks during a government shutdown, U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin insisted yetserday that the Trump administration would keep tight control on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, despite last month’s decision to ease restrictions on the firms.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A small Native American tribe in Louisiana whose land has nearly vanished into the sea has moved a step closer to relocating its community further inland after authorities acquired new land for the move, part of a first-of-its-kind project.

WASHINGTON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Cuban programme that exports doctors around the world qualifies as human trafficking according to a resolution introduced in the U.S.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission yesterday declared opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi the winner of a disorganised and contentious Dec.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump stormed out of talks with Democratic congressional leaders yesterday over funding for a border wall with Mexico and reopening the government, complaining the meeting at the White House was “a total waste of time.”