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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he was worried that any statements under oath he provides to Special Counsel Robert Mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him as part of the probe into Russia’s electoral interference.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis, facing sexual abuse crises in several countries, wrote an unprecedented letter to all Catholics yesterday, asking each one of them to help root out “this culture of death” and vowing there would be no more cover ups.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.N. rights chief said on Monday that U.S.

ROME,  (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed in southern Italy yesterday when they were hurled over rocks by a raging white-water creek in a deep mountain gorge that swelled suddenly after heavy rainfall upstream, officials said.

DENVER,  (Reuters) – A Colorado oil worker charged with murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters told investigators following his arrest that he killed his wife after she strangled the children, court documents showed yesterday.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan called yesterday for the rich to start paying taxes and said the country will begin an austerity drive to reduce debt, a campaign he will kick-start by selling his office’s fleet of bullet-proof cars.

SHENZHEN, China/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Larry Sloven arrived in southern China three decades ago, just as the region was taking off as the low-cost manufacturing centre of the world.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May could face trouble getting her Brexit deal approved by the British parliament before exit day unless she changes her proposals, the head of an influential group of pro-Brexit lawmakers said in an interview published yesterday.

KOROR, Palau, (Reuters) – Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is caught in an escalating diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he had “nothing to hide” from the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – One person died and five others were wounded in Uganda yesterday, police said, as security forces used teargas and live bullets to disperse a demonstration against the beating of arrested lawmakers in response to the stoning of a presidential convoy.

KOCHI, India (Reuters) – India deployed thousands of soldiers and dozens of helicopters to rescue people marooned by the worst floods in a century in the southern state of Kerala, where the death toll of 186 people as of Saturday could rise fast as rains continue.

MESEBERG, Germany (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, as well as Iran and a gas pipeline project that has drawn U.S.

ACCRA/GENEVA (Reuters) – Former U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan died on Saturday at the age of 80, his foundation said, after decades of championing efforts to try to end protracted conflicts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

ACCRA/GENEVA (Reuters) – Leaders around the world paid tribute to former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan, who died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of Saturday aged 80.

ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Saturday hailed the late former U.N.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Former cricket star Imran Khan was sworn-in as prime minister of Pakistan on Saturday, taking on the challenge of forming a coalition to govern as a currency crisis looms over the turbulent, nuclear-armed South Asian country.

ACCRA/GENEVA (Reuters) – Former U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan died on Saturday at the age of 80, his foundation said, after decades of championing efforts to try to end protracted conflicts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro announced yesterday a single exchange rate pegged to his socialist government’s petro cryptocurrency, effectively devaluing by 96 percent in a move economists said would fan hyperinflation in the chaotic country.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Committee, a panel of independent experts, yesterday said it had requested that the Brazilian government allow imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to exercise his political rights as a presidential candidate.