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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady were sentenced to 18 years in prison yesterday following their convictions in New York on U.S.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The use of giant rats to sniff out the potentially deadly disease tuberculosis (TB) in Tanzania is set to nearly double by the end of the year due to successful detection rates, a charity who trains them said yesterday.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Muslim leaders yesterday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and called on the world to respond by recognising East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesian prosecutors charged a former parliament speaker yesterday in connection with a $170 million graft scandal after he held up proceedings for hours at the opening of his trial, saying he was ill.

BOSTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Climate activists said on Tuesday they would take a tough shareholder resolution off the table at Exxon Mobil Corp after the company agreed to provide new details about how climate change could affect its business.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition received a European Union prize for human rights yesterday and urged the world to keep a close eye on an upcoming presidential election where it aspires to end two decades of socialist rule in the OPEC nation.

BUENOS AIRES/WASHINGTON  (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization failed to reach any new agreements yesterday, ending a three-day ministerial conference in discord in the face of stinging U.S.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – A new study sheds light on how the mosquito-borne Zika virus causes a rare neurological condition, and the findings could have implications for companies working on Zika vaccines, U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans reached a deal on final tax legislation yesterday, clearing the way for final votes next week on a package that would slash the U.S.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., (Reuters) – Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a bleak assessment on the global fight against climate change to dozens of world leaders and company executives yesterday, telling them: “We are losing the battle”.

(Reuters) – Ottawa plans early next year to create an independent office to oversee Canadian mining, oil and gas companies’ activities abroad, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, a move that environmental and human rights groups have long demanded.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019, apart from certain gas projects in the poorest countries in exceptional circumstances, it said on Tuesday, drawing praise from environmental groups.

CHICAGO/LONDON,  (Reuters) – When French drugmaker Sanofi published the results of clinical trials of children given its dengue vaccine two years ago, the overall findings were that it protected against the world’s biggest and fastest growing mosquito-borne disease.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Warring sides must let more aid get through to 8.4 million people who are “a step away from famine” in Yemen, a senior U.N.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi man set off a homemade pipe bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York City commuter hub during the morning rush hour yesterday, officials said, immediately calling it an attempted terrorist attack.

(Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday urged a federal appeals court to issue an order blocking a lawsuit over climate change brought by a group of Oregon teenagers, warning that allowing it to go forward could lead to a constitutional crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department yesterday condemned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s threat to ban opposition parties from participating in next year’s presidential elections.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore touted his ties to President Donald Trump yesterday in the final stretch of an election campaign in Alabama in which Moore has battled accusations of sexual misconduct toward teenagers.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Three women who have accused U.S. President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct called on Monday for a congressional investigation into his behaviour amid a wave of similar accusations against prominent men in Hollywood, the media and politics.