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PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities said yesterday they had arrested 28 people in southern Bolivar state for looting and disorder over Christmas in the latest unrest during a severe economic crisis.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government will declare Venezuela’s chargé d’affaires persona non-grata, stripping him of his diplomatic status, Brazil’s foreign affairs ministry told Reuters on yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Federal agents discovered four preserved fetuses in the Detroit warehouse of a man who sold human body parts, confidential photographs reviewed by Reuters show.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny yesterday cleared the first hurdle towards taking part in next year’s presidential election, even though the central election commission has previously ruled him ineligible to run.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China’s corruption watchdog yesterday urged its state-owned enterprises (SOE) to guard against the risk of corruption in their overseas entities, saying it was a key task of every company’s Communist Party cell.

(Variety.com) – Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is showing plenty of force at mulitplexes worldwide with $745.4 million globally as of Sunday.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Syrian army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave near a strategic border area with Israel and Lebanon in a new expansion of Tehran’s influence in the war-torn country.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will pay tribute to her husband Prince Philip in her Christmas message, and praise his “support and unique sense of humour”.

CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico has this year registered its highest murder total since modern records began, according to official data, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto’s pledge to get gang violence under control with presidential elections due in 2018.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s leftist government prepared to release some 80 jailed anti-government activists yesterday, and threatened to expel envoys from Canada and Brazil after criticism over rights.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has issued new guidelines for immigration judges that remove some instructions for how to protect unaccompanied juveniles appearing in their courtrooms.

UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea yesterday for its Nov.

NEW YORK/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Bitcoin plunged by 30 percent to below $12,000 yesterday as investors dumped the cryptocurrency after its sharp rise to a peak close to $20,000 prompted warnings by experts of a bubble.

WASHINGTON/TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The United States on Friday backed the re-election of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez despite widespread misgivings about the vote count, prompting the opposition candidate to describe his bid for the presidency as a “lost cause.”

(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court yesterday said President Donald Trump’s hotly contested travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries should not be applied to people with strong U.S.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pulled off a surprise victory against the opposition’s bid to force him from power as a graft scandal rocks Latin America, with a motion in Congress falling eight votes short of the 87 needed to oust him.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – More than 120 countries defied President Donald Trump yesterday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress yesterday averted a government shutdown just one day before federal funding was due to expire, sending President Donald Trump a bill to provide just enough money to keep agencies operating through Jan.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Catalonia’s separatists look set to regain power in the wealthy Spanish region after local elections on Thursday, deepening the nation’s political crisis in a sharp rebuke to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and European Union leaders who backed him.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.N. independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar called on Wednesday for stronger international pressure to be exerted on Myanmar’s military commanders after being barred from visiting the country for the rest of her tenure.