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(Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales has undergone an operation for a “small tumor” that was detected during a routine check-up, he said yesterday in a Twitter post.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – One month after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano violently erupted, killing more than 100 people, the country’s disaster agency has raised the number of missing by more than two thirds to 332 people.

OSLO, (Reuters) – A Green Climate Fund (GCF) meant to channel billions of dollars to poor nations said it had had a “very difficult and disappointing” meeting ending yesterday, in a new setback after U.S.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – In a stunning fall from grace, Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged in court yesterday as part of an investigation into allegations of extensive corruption and misappropriation at a state fund he founded.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean judge yesterday ordered that ex-President Rafael Correa be jailed as part of a case involving the kidnapping of a lawmaker, setting up a showdown with the Belgium-based leftist politician who vowed to appeal and defy the orders.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday rescinded an extensive set of guidelines put in place under President Barack Obama that had called on colleges and universities to consider race as a way of promoting diversity.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Senate Intelligence Committee report released yesterday supports three U.S.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Eike Batista, the former mining and oil magnate who was once Brazil’s richest man, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for bribing Rio de Janeiro state’s disgraced ex-governor, according to a court document published on Tuesday.

NEW YORK/HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China’s embattled ZTE Corp has received a temporary reprieve from the U.S.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian anti-corruption agents arrested former Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday following a probe into how money went missing from a state fund he founded almost a decade ago and authorities said he would be charged in court on Wednesday.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives settled a row over migration that threatened to topple her fragile governing coalition late last evening after talks with her rebellious interior minister led him to drop his threat to resign.

CHIANG RAI, Thailand, (Reuters) – Twelve boys and their assistant soccer coach have been found alive by rescuers inside a Thai cave complex nine days after they went missing, Chiang Rai province’s governor said yesterday.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s next leader, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador discussed immigration, trade and security issues in a phone call yesterday, the two mavericks beginning a dialogue amid strained relations between the neighbours.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poor countries could have to pay up to $168 billion more in interest over the next decade as extreme weather events brought on by climate change affect their credit ratings, a study said yesterday.

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – Uganda has imposed a levy on social media access which it says will fund public services but has been widely resisted as oppressive and aimed at curbing government criticism.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The British government pledged to end gay conversion therapy yesterday as it set out plans to improve the lives of LGBT people after a national survey found many experienced discrimination and prejudice.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Leftist outsider Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won Mexico’s presidential election handily yesterday, exit polls showed, setting the stage for a government that will inherit tense relations with Washington and the scrutiny of nervous investors.

MUNICH/BERLIN,  (Reuters) – German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer offered his resignation to party colleagues late yesterday, party officials said, escalating a row over migration with Chancellor Angela Merkel that threatens her fragile government.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – A French gangster is on the run after being sprung from jail by heavily armed gunmen and escaping in a helicopter that landed in the prison grounds, the justice minister said yesterday.

ANKARA,  (Reuters) – Mounting pressure from the Trump administration combined with discontent among many Iranians at the state of the economy are rattling the Islamic Republic, with little sign that its leaders have the answers, officials and analysts say.