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GENEVA, (Reuters) – An estimated two million Venezuelans could join the ranks of migrants and refugees next year, swelling the total to 5.3 million as the country’s meltdown continues, the United Nations said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday moved to end speculation that he was having a hard time finding a new chief of staff, naming his budget chief Mick Mulvaney to the top post on a temporary basis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States plans to counter the rapidly expanding Chinese and Russian economic and political influence in Africa, U.S.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court rejected petitions yesterday seeking an investigation of fighter jet deal worth about $8.7 billion with France’s Dassault Aviation , handing a political victory to the ruling party months before a general election.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will resign from his post, his son said yesterday, in a move that will force President Maithripala Sirisena to appoint a replacement to avert a possible government shutdown on Jan 1.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested more immigrants who were in the United States illegally in the fiscal year through Sept.

ITAGUAI, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday launched the first of five attack submarines built with French technology in a 35 billion-real ($8.9 billion) program planned to end in 2029 with delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate delivered a rare double rebuke to President Donald Trump on Saudi Arabia yesterday, voting to end U.S.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The head of the U.N. agency for HIV and AIDS is stepping down in June, six months before his term ends, after an independent panel said that his “defective leadership” tolerated “a culture of harassment, including sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power”.

MOJAVE, Calif., (Reuters) – A Virgin Galactic rocket plane reached space yesterday  and returned safely to the California desert, capping years of testing to become the first U.S.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – European Union leaders assured Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday that the Brexit treaty she agreed last month but is struggling to get through UK parliament should not bind Britain forever to EU rules.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaraguan lawmakers yesterday blocked five non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that had been critical of President Daniel Ortega from formally operating, after previously blocking five others, including a prominent human rights group.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – When Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Urjit Patel abruptly resigned on Monday, it stunned many people in government and business circles.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – New gangs are muscling into cocaine markets in Europe, setting up smuggling networks straight from producers in Latin America to consumers, a business which used to be dominated by the mafia, the Lisbon-based EU drugs agency said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Russian woman pleaded guilty in a U.S.

RIMBO, Sweden,  (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties agreed yesterday to cease fighting for the Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah and withdraw their troops, the first significant breakthrough for U.N.-led

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court yestreday ruled President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament ahead of its term as illegal, in a setback for the embattled leader in his face off with an elected premier.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – The Panama Canal Authority said on Wednesday that an arbitration tribunal has ordered the construction consortium behind the waterway’s expansion to pay back nearly $848 million to the canal authority.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament ahead of its term as illegal, in a setback for the embattled leader in his face off with an elected premier.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a confidence vote by the Conservative Party yesterday, but a mutiny by more than a third of her lawmakers indicated parliament was heading towards deadlock over Brexit.