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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.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Eleven members of a family were found dead in India’s capital yesterday, most of them hanging from the ceiling of their home, blindfolded, gagged and with hands tied behind the back, with police unable to offer any concrete explanation about what happened.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Simone Veil, a former magistrate and Holocaust survivor best known in France for legalising abortion in the 1970s, died on Friday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of protesters marched in cities across the United States on Saturday to demand the Trump administration reverse an immigration crackdown that has separated children from parents at the U.S-Mexico

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Bavaria’s premier welcomed deals on migration brought back from Brussels by Angela Merkel, giving the clearest signal yet that his party was prepared to back down in a standoff with the German chancellor that has risked bringing down her government.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – China has lent Pakistan $1 billion to boost the South Asian country’s plummeting foreign currency reserves, two sources in Pakistan’s finance ministry told Reuters, amid growing speculation of another International Monetary Fund bailout.

 OTTAWA/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Canada struck back at the Trump administration yesterday over U.S.

YANGON/COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Rohingya refugees returning to Myanmar will have no explicit guarantees of citizenship or freedom of movement throughout the country, under a secret agreement between the government and the United Nations seen by Reuters.

ANNAPOLIS, Md.,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of people gathered yesterday evening to remember the five people gunned down at a community newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland, one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S.

BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – Islamist militants armed with rockets and explosives raided the headquarters of an African military taskforce in central Mali, leaving at least six people dead yesterday, a spokesman for the force said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government said in a court filing on Friday that it has the right to detain children and parents caught crossing the U.S.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, apologised on Friday for paying its China Editor Carrie Gracie less than male editors elsewhere, saying it was committed to the principle of equal pay.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he plans to announce his nominee to replace retiring U.S.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged Latin American countries yesterday to help isolate crisis-stricken Venezuela, an ideological adversary of Washington that is struggling under a severe and prolonged economic crisis.