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BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders agreed yesterday a hard-fought accord on migration after more than nine hours of talks.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo fired the head of the country’s Electoral Commission yesterday for “misbehaviour and incompetence”, Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid said.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian miner Vale said yesterday it would pay 557.7 million reais ($144.42 million) in the second half of the year to restore the environment and communities damaged by a 2015 disaster at Samarco, a joint venture it has with BHP Billiton.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. House Republican allies of President Donald Trump shouted and attacked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein yesterday, alleging he was improperly withholding documents related to the FBI’s investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Australia triumphed yesterday in a major trade dispute over its pioneering “plain” tobacco packaging law, with World Trade Organization judges rejecting a complaint brought by Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras and Dominican Republic.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told the leaders of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador on Thursday to end an “exodus” of illegal immigrants to the United States, urging them to dissuade people from even considering entering the country unlawfully.

RIGA,  (Reuters) – Latvia’s central bank governor will face prosecution over alleged bribery after a four-month-long investigation that turned up the spotlight on the financial system of the euro zone member state.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – South Sudan’s president signed a peace agreement with rebels yesterday including a ceasefire to start in 72 hours, Sudan’s foreign minister said, but rebels rejected other parts of the deal.

JOS, Nigeria, (Reuters) – More than 200 people were killed over the weekend in violence in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, the state governor said, making it one of the bloodiest clashes in the months leading up to an election.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said yesterday he plans to retire after three decades as a pivotal vote on the highest U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Moscow and Washington struck a deal on Wednesday to hold a summit soon between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.

(Reuters) – Pennsylvania prosecutors yesterday charged an East Pittsburgh police officer with homicide in the shooting death last week of an unarmed black teenager, the latest in a string of U.S.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – A drawing of an Australasian cockatoo by a Roman Emperor has revealed trade routes between Southeast Asia and Europe were flourishing around 250 years earlier than previously thought, according to a paper published by the University of Melbourne.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday dealt a big blow to organized labor, ruling that non-members cannot be forced in certain states to pay fees to unions representing public employees such as teachers and police, shutting off a key union revenue source.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian police said last night the total value of items seized during raids at premises linked to former Prime Minister Najib Razak was 900 million ringgit to 1.1 billion ringgit.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and rejecting the argument that it represented unconstitutional religious discrimination.

(Reuters) – A federal court in California dismissed climate change lawsuits by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against five oil companies, saying the complaints required foreign and domestic policy decisions that were outside its purview.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Long-time foes Eritrea and Ethiopia “opened the door of peace” yesterday after the first high-level visit from Asmara to Addis Ababa in nearly two decades, raising hopes for an end to one of Africa’s most intractable military stand-offs.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australia is expected to pass new legislation today aimed at preventing interference by foreign governments, a move likely to further stoke tensions with major trading partner China.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was dealt a setback yesterday when a judge who had expressed some sympathy for Manafort’s argument that a special counsel lacked the authority to prosecute him, refused to dismiss the case.