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TORONTO/BEIJING, (Reuters) – The CFO of China’s Huawei Technolo-gies Co Ltd argued that she should be released on bail while awaiting an extradition hearing, citing her longstanding ties to Canada, properties she owns in Vancouver and fears for her health while incarcerated, court documents showed yesterday.

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – Ten opposition parties in Tanzania say proposed amendments to a law governing political parties would criminalise their activities.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said his government’s last-minute changes to policies that went into effect on Friday following widespread criticism showed it listens to the people and were not a setback.

Lima,  (Reuters) – Peruvians showed strong support in a referendum yesterday for political and judicial reforms introduced by the new President Martin Vizcarra to target corruption in one of Latin America’s most promising economies, according to an exit poll.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to delay Tuesday’s key parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal and head to Brussels next week to demand better terms from the European Union, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

BEIJING/OTTAWA, (Reuters) – China warned Canada yesterday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer, calling the case “extremely nasty.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will leave his job at the end of the year, U.S.

KATOWICE, Poland, (Reuters) – Half-way through talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal, negotiators haggled over how to share the cost of curbing global warming and struggled to bridge deep political divides.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Friday gave investors additional time to divest their holdings in three sanctioned Russian companies, saying they would have until Jan.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors said yesterday President Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer to make illegal hush payments to two women ahead of the 2016 election, and also detailed a previously unknown attempt by a Russian to help the Trump campaign.

VANCOUVER/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer faces U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court handed President Donald Trump a defeat yesterday when it refused to allow his order barring asylum for immigrants who enter the country illegally to take effect, while a court challenge proceeds.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Fourteen people including six hostages were killed early yesterday in a shootout between police and bank robbers attempting to blow up ATMs at two banks in a small town in northeastern Brazil, authorities said.

SAO PAULO/BRASÍLIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Michel Temer said yesterday he had reached an agreement with Roraima state Governor Suely Campos for a federal “intervention” in the state that borders Venezuela.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru wants about a dozen countries in the region to break diplomatic relations with Venezuela in the hope of pressuring President Nicolas Maduro and bringing down his government, Peru’s foreign minister said yesterday.

LUSAKA, (Reuters) – President Edgar Lungu can stand in presidential elections due in 2021, Zambia’s top court ruled on Friday, finding that he would not be breaching a constitutional two-term limit.

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump did not know about plans to arrest a top executive at Chinese telecoms giant Huawei in Canada, two U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell has concluded that a Nigerian oilfield sale where it suspects an executive took bribes was not linked to a separate court case in which he and Shell face corruption charges over a $1.1 billion offshore acquisition.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush was laid to rest at his presidential library in College Station, Texas, yesterday, following funeral services at his longtime church in Houston.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – A U.S. attempt to get the United Nations to condemn violence by Palestinian militant group Hamas for the first time failed yesterday because the draft resolution fell short of votes needed in the General Assembly.