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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – North Korea and the United States on Saturday sparred over an agreement reached at a landmark summit in June for the Asian country to end its nuclear program, as Washington called for maintaining sanctions pressure against Pyongyang, which in turn said it was alarmed by U.S.

HARARE (Reuters) – Twenty-seven members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) appeared in a Zimbabwe court facing public violence charges on Saturday after six people were killed in post-election protests that were met by a military crackdown.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Sporadic protests broke out in several cities in Iran for a fifth night on Saturday, a day after demonstrators attacked a Shi’ite seminary, according to Iranian news agencies and social media, as Iranians brace for a return of U.S.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged yesterday to provide nearly $300 million in new security funding for Southeast Asia, as China forges ahead with plans to bolster its engagement in the region.

 (Reuters) – Two of Mother Nature’s most potentially devastating forces – a major hurricane and an erupting volcano – appear headed for a close encounter on Hawaii’s Big Island next week, weather forecasters said yesterday.

BEIJING/SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – China proposed retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad will be the Brazilian leftist Workers Party’s presidential candidate if jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is barred from running in the October vote, a party source said yesterday.

HARARE, (Reuters) – President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged Zimbabweans to unite yesterday after he was declared the first elected head of state since Robert Mugabe’s removal from power, but the opposition leader insisted he had won and pledged to challenge the result.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.,  (Reuters) – An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted in trial testimony yesterday that she helped backdate documents and falsify financial records at Manafort and his business partner’s request to reduce his tax burden and help him qualify for loans.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Democratic National Committee warned party candidates running in November elections not to use devices made by Chinese telecommunications companies ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies because they pose a security risk, a Democratic source said yesterday.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former spy chief installed after Robert Mugabe’s removal in a coup in November, was elected yesterday after a poll marred by the deaths of six people in an army crackdown on opposition protests.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) yesterday approved the creation of a working group to seek a peaceful solution to the violent protests that have roiled Nicaragua since April, leaving more than 300 people dead.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security team said yesterday that Russia is behind “pervasive” attempts to interfere in upcoming U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Apple Inc yesterday became the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s all-powerful Constituent Assembly yesterday voted to legalize money exchange operations to relax the strict currency controls imposed by the social government that have throttled the oil-rich nation’s economy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation yesterday to impose stiff new sanctions on Russia and combat cyber crime, the latest effort by lawmakers to punish Moscow over interference in U.S.

DETROIT/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – California and 18 other U.S. states promised yesterday to fight a Trump administration proposal to weaken fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks and force states into line, arguing the United States has an obligation to protect the environment for future generations.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe police said three people were killed in Harare yesterday as soldiers dispersed stone-throwing opposition supporters who accused the ruling party of trying to rig Monday’s presidential election.

BRASILIA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s Workers Party has reached a neutrality pact with the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) that will end their rivalries in several states in Brazil’s general election in October.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump appealed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end an investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from his fellow Republicans in Congress who said the probe must go on.