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GENOA, Italy,  (Reuters) – Firefighters searched into the night yesterday for survivors and bodies amid the rubble of a motorway bridge that collapsed in the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing at least 26.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that Turkey would boycott electronic products from the United States, retaliating in a row with Washington that has helped drive the lira to record lows.

ITAÍ, Brazil, (Reuters) – Last year, Brazilian farmer Gustavo Lopes sized up his sugarcane plantation against his soybean fields.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday called former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a “dog,” and his campaign took legal action against her as the two former reality TV stars escalated their public feud.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Filip Liu, a 31-year-old software developer from Beijing, was travelling in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang when he was pulled to one side by police as he got off a bus.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader yesterday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer of unconditional talks to improve bilateral ties and he also accused the Iranian government of economic mismanagement in the face of reimposed U.S.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – A Kenyan court yesterday charged the heads of the agency that manages public land and of the state railway with fraud over land allocation for a new $3 billion train line linking the capital with East Africa’s biggest port.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – Turkey’s lira pulled back from a record low of 7.24 to the dollar on Monday after the central bank pledged to provide liquidity, but it remained under selling pressure and its meltdown caused further unease on global markets.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s Commerce Ministry said yesterday it will comprehensively assess a new U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s Constitutional Court yesterday ruled the appointment of the chief prosecutor, who was given his job after former president Jacob Zuma removed his predecessor, was invalid and ordered that he be replaced within 90 days.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s heavily subsidized domestic gasoline prices should rise to international levels to avoid billions of dollars in annual losses due to fuel smuggling, President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised address yesterday.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – China rejected yesterday allegations raised by a U.N.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he kept former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on staff because she praised him even as she failed to do her job, the latest insult in the two former reality television stars’ public battle.

TAOS, N.M.,  (Reuters) – A 3-year-old boy found buried at a New Mexico desert compound died in a ritual to “cast out demonic spirits,” but his extended family believed he would “return as Jesus” to identify “corrupt” targets for them to attack, prosecutors said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk  yesterday tweeted that he would work with buyout firm Silver Lake and investment bank Goldman Sachs as financial advisers on a proposal to take private the electric car maker.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – A Kenyan court today charged the heads of the agency that manages public land and of the state railway with fraud over land allocation for a new $3 billion train line linking the capital with East Africa’s biggest port.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A white nationalist rally in the heart of Washington drew two dozen demonstrators and thousands of chanting counter-protesters yesterday, the one-year anniversary of racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia is seeking to repossess a $35 million private jet owned by financier Low Taek Jho as part of investigations into a multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday.

THAME, England,  (Reuters) – Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson returned from his summer holiday to face both criticism and support over his remarks about burqas, amid deepening divisions in Britain’s ruling Conservative Party yesterday.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turkey has drafted a economic action plan and will start implementing it this morning to ease investor concerns, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said yesterday, after the lira plunged to a new record low in early Asia Pacific trade.