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SYDNEY, (Reuters) – A major rift opened up in Australia’s coalition government on Friday as Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce refused to resign over an affair with a staff member, and blasted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s condemnation of his behaviour as “inept”.

PARKLAND, Fla.,  (Reuters) – A 19-year-old gunman returned to the Florida high school where he had once been expelled for disciplinary problems and opened fire with an assault-style rifle yesterday, killing 17 people and injuring more than a dozen others before he was arrested, authorities said.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Jacob Zuma resigned as President of South Africa yesterday, reluctantly heeding orders by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to bring an end to his nine scandal-plagued years in power.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Heavily armed South African police raided the luxury home of the Gupta family today as part of a probe into allegations the three brothers had corrupt links to President Jacob Zuma, who has been ordered by the ruling ANC to quit as head of state.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli police yesterday recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, opening the way for what could be the biggest challenge yet to the right-wing leader’s political survival.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra resigned yesterday after admitting that he had lied about attending a meeting in 2006 at which he said Russian President Vladimir Putin had outlined a strategy for building a greater Russia.

The Andrew Holnessled Cabinet has reacted to the island’s judges, who on Monday raised serious concern about separation of powers following statements by the Prime Minister about the appointment of Bryan Sykes as acting chief justice.

PRETORIA/JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s African National Con-gress party executive committee has decided to “recall,” or remove, President Jacob Zuma as head of state, a senior ANC source told Reuters yesterday, after a 13-hour meeting of the party’s top leadership.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed slashing of funds for diplomacy and foreign aid faced immediate resistance in Congress yesterday, as some of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats in opposing cuts to what they see as essential “soft power” spending in the face of global threats.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil will not block Venezuelans from entering the country through the border in the northern state of Roraima, but has launched a task force to organize the flow and provide resources for cities and states dealing with the refugees.

(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors yesterday announced charges against five former Venezuelan officials accused of soliciting bribes in exchange for helping vendors win favorable treatment from state oil company PDVSA, the latest case to stem from a $1 billion graft probe.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil will not block Venezuelans from entering the country through the border in the northern state of Roraima, but has launched a task force to organize the flow and provide resources for cities and states dealing with the refugees.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The ANC will decide President Jacob Zuma’s fate at a special meeting today, the party’s new chief said, in what could be the most serious bid yet to unseat a leader damaged by corruption allegations.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, (Reuters) – North Korea has emerged as the early favourite to grab one of the Winter Olympics’ most important medals: the diplomatic gold.

LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistani human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir, who faced death threats by fighting for unpopular causes and was jailed in the 1980s for her pro-democracy work during military rule, died on Sunday in Lahore.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York’s attorney general sued the Weinstein Company and Harvey Weinstein yesterday alleging years of sexual harassment and misconduct by the movie producer, in a move that could jeopardize talks on a potential sale of the studio.

SEOUL/PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in for talks in Pyongyang, South Korean officials said on Saturday, setting the stage for the first meeting of Korean leaders in more than 10 years.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luis Barroso asked on Saturday for the head of the Federal Police to clarify comments he made in a Reuters interview published a day earlier regarding an investigation of President Michel Temer.

(Reuters) – A Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar prompted a demand from Washington for a credible probe into the bloodshed there and calls for the release of two journalists who were arrested while working on the report.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea is unable to pay its share of the 2018 UN budgets because of international sanctions on its foreign exchange bank and has asked a senior UN official for help, the country’s UN mission said in a statement.