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ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turkey has given recordings related to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi to Germany, France and Britain, President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, seeking to maintain international pressure on Riyadh over the Saudi journalist’s death.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament, worsening an already major political crisis, has drawn criticism from Western powers, including the United States and the European Union.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban artists and international rights activists are pushing the government to revise legislation due to take effect in December that they fear will hamper creativity and increase censorship on the Communist-run island.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved parliament last night and called a general election for Jan.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats are considering legal action over President Donald Trump’s appointment of a new acting attorney general, congressional sources said yesterday, as some outside experts called the move unconstitutional.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in Montana has blocked construction of the Keystone XL pipeline designed to carry heavy crude oil from Canada to the United States, drawing praise yesterday from environmental groups and a rebuke from President Donald Trump.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Jo Johnson, the younger brother of Boris, resigned from British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government yesterday, calling in a withering critique for another referendum to avoid her Brexit plans unleashing Britain’s greatest crisis since World War Two.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday effectively suspended the granting of asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved the nation’s parliament today with effect from midnight, two sources told Reuters, in a move that will likely worsen an already deep political crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats yesterday demanded emergency hearings in the U.S.

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration unveiled new rules yesterday to sharply limit migrant asylum claims by barring individuals who cross the U.S.

(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court in California ruled yesterday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue a programme begun under former President Barack Obama that protects hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who were brought into the country as children.

PHNOM PENH, (Reuters) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen defended yesterday the promotion of his three sons to senior positions in government and the military, citing their education and qualifications.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., (Reuters) – A U.S. Marine Corps veteran opened fire on a crowd of mostly college students and young adults dancing at a crowded country and western bar in a suburb of Los Angeles late yesterday, killing 12 people including a sheriff’s deputy.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump forced out his attorney general on Wednesday and threatened to fight back if Democrats use their new majority in the U.S.

(Reuters) – Chile returned a planeload of Haitian immigrants to their native country yesterday in the first in a series of “humanitarian flights” criticised by migrant groups as “forced deportations.”

BRASÍLIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro faced the first setback in his plans to reduce the country’s massive deficit yesterday, as the Senate approved a 16 percent pay rise for the judiciary against his wishes.

(Reuters) – The pool of potential jurors for the U.S. drug trafficking trial of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman continued to shrink on Tuesday, with two people who expressed fears about their safety and one self-described “fan” of the defendant cut from the running.

(Reuters) – Democrats struck early in the battle for the U.S.

(Reuters) – Thousands of mostly Honduran migrants traveling through Mexico gathered in the capital on Tuesday after a 1,000 mile (1,600 km) journey, with a handful saying President Donald Trump’s hostility had deterred them from continuing to the United States.