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ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Six construction workers have been killed in an accident at Newmont’s Ahafo gold mine in Ghana, forcing the surface mine to suspend its operations, a local Newmont manager said yesterday.

BUDAPEST, Hungary,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a third straight term in power in Sunday elections after his anti-immigration campaign message secured a strong majority for his party in parliament, granting him two-thirds of seats based on preliminary results.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – A chemical attack on a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta has killed dozens of people, medical services reported, and Washington said the reports – if confirmed – would demand an immediate international response.

MUENSTER, Germany (Reuters) – A German man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant in the old city centre of Muenster in western Germany on Saturday, killing two of them before shooting himself dead, police and state officials said.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian rebel group accused government forces on Saturday of launching a deadly chemical attack on civilians in a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta, and a medical relief organisation said 35 people had been killed in chemical attacks on the area.

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund should be allowed to invest in unlisted renewable projects such as solar parks and wind farms, the ruling Conservative party voted on Saturday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican said on Saturday its police had arrested a monsignor who worked as a diplomat at its embassy in Washington and is suspected of possessing child pornography in the United States and Canada.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A fire that broke at in Trump Tower in New York on Saturday is out, US President Donald Trump said on Twitter, calling it a “very confined” blaze.

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defied a judge’s order to turn himself in to police on Friday and start serving a 12-year prison sentence for bribery that would likely end his hopes of regaining the presidency.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States imposed major sanctions yesterday against 24 Russians, striking at allies of President Vladimir Putin in one of Washington’s most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S.

DURBAN, South Africa,  (Reuters) – Former South African president Jacob Zuma appeared in court today to face corruption charges relating to a $2.5 billion arms deal, later telling a crowd he would be proven innocent in the long-running case that resurfaced after his fall from power.

MENDOZA, Argentina,  (Reuters) – As the trade dispute between the United States and China was gaining steam last month, a half-dozen Chinese dancers and a person in a panda bear suit paraded across a stage inside a hotel lobby in the heart of Argentina’s wine country.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he had instructed U.S.

LONDON/OSLO,  (Reuters) – Chinese solar power led a record 157 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity added worldwide last year, more than double the amount of new generation capacity from fossil fuels, a U.N.-backed

MANAMA,  (Reuters) – A new discovery off the coast of Bahrain is estimated to contain at least 80 billion barrels of tight oil, the kingdom’s biggest ever find, its oil minister said on Wednesday.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian court jailed Bollywood star Salman Khan for five years for poaching yesterday, lawyers said, a sentence likely to derail the career of one of the country’s most popular actors.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s critics call it his last act.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo defended his government’s approval of expanded military cooperation with the United States on Thursday, saying that it would enhance peace efforts in West Africa.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Thursday sharply rebuked Donald Trump over his plan to send National Guard troops to the border, joining with opponents to tell the U.S.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian court jailed Bollywood star Salman Khan for five years for poaching today, lawyers said, a sentence likely to derail the career of one of the country’s most popular actors.