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BANGKOK,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Farmers and fishermen in western India have welcomed a U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Lawyers for the Bodo community in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, which was devastated by two major oil spills a decade ago, went to court in London yesterday to fend off what they said was an attempt by Shell to kill off their litigation.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Critics at home and abroad yesterday denounced the re-election of Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro as a farce cementing autocracy, while the U.S.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday condemned Nicaragua’s response to weeks of protests against President Daniel Ortega, criticizing a crackdown that resulted in rights abuses including torture and possibly even murder.

HAVANA/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The death toll in one of Cuba’s worst air disasters rose to 111 yesterday while Mexico suspended the operations of the Mexican company that had leased the 39-year old Boeing 737 to Cuba’s flagship airline.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Washington and Beijing both claimed victory on Monday as the world’s two largest economies stepped back from the brink of a global trade war and agreed to hold further talks to boost U.S.

BURUNDI,  (Reuters) – Voters in Burundi have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, the electoral commission said yesterday, ushering in changes that could let the president stay in power to 2034.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, have struck a deal to produce films and series for Netflix Inc, the streaming service said on Monday, giving the former first couple a powerful and unprecedented platform to shape their post-White House legacy.

WASHINGTON/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday demanded Iran make sweeping changes — from dropping its nuclear program to pulling out of the Syrian civil war — or face severe economic sanctions as the Trump administration hardened its approach to Tehran.

CARACAS, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s leftist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term yesterday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a dictatorship.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese state media yesterday praised a significant dialling back of trade tension with the United States, saying China had stood its ground and the two countries had huge potential for win-win business cooperation.

SANTA FE, Texas,  (Reuters) – A teenaged boy who shot and killed eight students and two teachers in Texas had been spurned by one of his victims after making aggressive advances, her mother told the Los Angeles Times.

PAHOA, Hawaii,  (Reuters) – Hawaii residents coping with Kilauea’s volcanic eruption faced a potentially deadly new hazard on Sunday as authorities warned that lava flows reaching the Pacific Ocean could produce noxious clouds of acid fumes, steam and tiny, glass-like particles.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – In early 2015, as Malaysians were protesting over government plans to introduce a consumption tax, the then first lady was complaining about the rising costs of her hairdresser.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China has agreed to take measures to boost imports from the United States to reduce America’s trade deficit, the two countries said yesterday, although without mentioning the $200 billion target the White House had touted earlier.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysians have avidly watched the public humiliation of former leader Najib Razak and his wife, as police hunting evidence of graft loaded five trucks with luxury items, including dozens of Birkin handbags, some costing as much as a sportscar.

CANNES, France,  (Reuters) – Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or at Cannes yesterday for “Shoplifters”, a critically acclaimed family drama with unguessable plot twists.

SANTA FE, Texas, (Reuters) – The 17-year-old student who authorities said killed 10 people when he opened fire in an art class in his Houston-area high school appeared “weirdly nonemotional” on the morning after the rampage, one of his lawyers said on Saturday.

WINDSOR, England,  (Reuters) – Britian’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle sealed their marriage with a kiss after a dazzling ceremony before a global audience of millions in a medieval chapel packed with royalty and celebrities.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed soon after taking off from Havana in what appeared to be Cuba’s worst air disaster in nearly 30 years, and there were only three survivors, officials and state media said yesterday.