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NEW DELHI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than four million people left off a draft list of citizens in northeast India yesterday have effectively been made stateless, campaigners said, likening them to the Rohingya minority driven out of Myanmar.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Counting began in Zimbabwe yesterday in the first election since the removal of former president Robert Mugabe, a watershed vote that could pull a pariah state back into the international fold and spark an economic revival.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, a senior U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to put the brakes on a lawsuit filed by young activists who have accused the U.S.

WELLINGTON/SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Just over a decade ago, deadly riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku’alofa, destroyed much of the small Pacific nation’s central business and government districts.

(Reuters) – CBS Corp’s board left Chief Executive Leslie Moonves in his post yesterday as it discussed sexual harassment claims against him and took steps to select an outside counsel to lead an independent investigation into the matter, the company said in a statement.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – International aid groups are failing to tackle “horror” sexual abuse and harassment in the charity sector, Britain’s aid watchdog said on Tuesday after the revelation of sexual misconduct by aid workers sparked global outrage this year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he would allow the federal government to shut down if Democrats do not fund his border wall and back immigration law changes, betting that maintaining a hard line will work in Republicans’ favor in November congressional elections.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Former president Robert Mugabe said he would vote for Zimbabwe’s opposition in today’s election, turning on one-time allies in the government ahead of the first vote since they ousted him in a de facto coup.

PHNOM PENH,  (Reuters) – Cambodia woke to another chapter of rule by strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday, a day after his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declared victory in a general election that rights groups said was neither free nor fair.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Efforts were underway yesterday to rescue several hundred trekkers stranded on Mount Rinjani on Indonesia’s Lombok Island, a day after a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist destination, a disaster agency official said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two High Court judges have accused Chief Justice Ivor Archie of abusing his power by issuing a press release via the Judiciary in response to a private matter he currently has before the Privy Council.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Half of Colombia’s cabinet ministers will be women when the new government takes office next month in a first for the country and a boost for global gender equality.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An international team of scientists has moved closer to creating artificial embryos after using mouse stem cells to make structures capable of taking a crucial step in the development of life.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s likely new Prime Minister Imran Khan opened coalition talks with at least one smaller party and independent politicians on Saturday, a spokesman said, after the announcement of full results of an election disputed by rivals.

LONDON (Reuters) – Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has accused the European Union of trying to cheat Britain out of the Brexit it voted for, according to extracts from a newspaper interview published late on Saturday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will stand its ground after U.S.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s ruling coalition government failed to win any of the five by-elections held this weekend, defeats widely seen as an indication that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces an uphill challenge to secure re-election.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Agriculture ministers from the G20 countries criticized protectionism in a joint statement on Saturday, and vowed to reform World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, but did not detail what steps they would take to improve the food trade system.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has engaged in a nonstop series of public appearances during his first 100 days in office, stopping everywhere across the island nation in an apparent bid to consolidate his leadership position.