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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, in a complete reversal, said yesterday he would hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore in the latest twist in the high-stakes diplomacy over eliminating Pyonyang’s nuclear arms programme.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro went out on a limb to support a truckers strike that paralyzed Brazil and forced the government to reinstate costly fuel subsidies, and the strategy may have helped his chances of beating one of several pro-business reform candidates in October’s election.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spanish socialist Pedro Sanchez was catapulted to power yesterday, taking over as prime minister from veteran conservative Mariano Rajoy, who lost a no-confidence vote in the wake of a corruption scandal.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – A play that was banned by Robert Mugabe about a 1980s government crackdown in which rights groups say 20,000 civilians were killed has been performed in Zimbabwe for the first time.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday said it has dropped a long-running territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore by mutual consent.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Anti-corruption groups in Honduras yesterday condemned a decision by the country’s highest court to strike down a government arm created to work with the Organization of American States’ (OAS) anti-graft mission.

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Friday it will remove the ‘Trending’ topics feature that compiles popular news from its social network, as it seeks to ensure users see news from trustworthy and quality sources.

WASHINGTON/PARIS,  (Reuters) – Canada and Mexico retaliated against the U.S. decision yesterday to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and the European Union had its own reprisals ready to go, reigniting investor fears of a global trade war.

NEW YORK/ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday played down the chances of a quick deal to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons as a delegation from Pyongyang headed to meet him with a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, suggesting a proposed summit may be back on.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The aluminium empire of Russian magnate Oleg Deripaska is in close contact with the U.S.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed and more than 200 injured yesterday in one of the worst days of violence since protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega began more than a month ago, police said on Thursday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – High-ranking officials of the United States and North Korea met in New York late yesterday in the first of two days of talks about the future of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme and a possible summit between U.S.

KIEV/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A dissident Russian journalist reported murdered in Kiev yesterday dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday during a televised briefing by Ukrainian state security about the killing, which they then said they had faked.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel flew to Caracas yesterday for his first foreign trip as head of state, a show of solidarity for Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, whose controversial re-election this month has drawn condemnation in the West.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A 72-hour strike by Brazilian oil workers halted refineries and rigs yestreday, union leaders said, a new blow to President Michel Temer on the heels of a trucker protest that has strangled Latin America’s largest economy for over a week.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was indicted yesterday on charges of rape and a criminal sexual act, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, the first case to emerge from a slew of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s main business lobby yesterday urged President Daniel Ortega to hold early elections to steer the country out of weeks of deadly protests that have seriously undermined the former Marxist guerrilla leader’s long hold on power.

KIEV/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A dissident Russian journalist who was reported murdered in Kiev dramatically reappeared alive today in the middle of a televised briefing about his own killing by the Ukrainian state security service.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – More than 50 senior Taliban commanders were killed in an artillery strike on a meeting in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, a U.S.

(Reuters Health) – Hurricane Maria claimed the lives of 4,645 people in Puerto Rico last year and not the 64 long pegged by the island’s government as the official death toll, according to a survey of thousands of residents by a research team led by Harvard University.