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BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Saad al-Hariri will return to Lebanon from Saudi Arabia within two days, he said yesterday, 10 days after his shock resignation as prime minister in a broadcast from Riyadh.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Soldiers deployed across the Zimbabwe capital Harare and seized the state broadcaster yesterday after 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party accused the head of the military of treason, prompting frenzied speculation of a coup.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – An anti-corruption court in Pakistan on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, media reported, after the veteran politician failed to turn up for several court hearings.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government gifted chocolates to creditors yesterday, but offered no firm proposals at a brief meeting in Caracas that left investors without a clear understanding of the government’s strategy to renegotiate $60 billion in debt.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s top general warned yesterday that the military would not hesitate to step in to end purges against former liberation war fighters in President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party after Emmerson Mnangagwa was stripped of his vice president’s post.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Russia, China, Egypt and Bolivia boycotted an informal public United Nations Security Council meeting on Venezuela yesterday organized by the United States, saying the 15-member body should not be involved in the situation.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who has refused to accept Saad Hariri’s resignation as prime minister unless Hariri returns from Saudi Arabia, welcomed comments from Hariri that he plans to come home soon, palace sources and visitors said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led a chorus of establishment Republicans yesterday urging Roy Moore, the party’s Senate candidate in Alabama, to quit the race as a fifth woman came forward with allegations Moore had sexual contact with teenage girls decades ago.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Iran said yesterday that rescue operations have ended in areas hit by a powerful weekend earthquake that killed at least 450 people and injured thousands of others, state television reported.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – An Australian senator announced plans to resign yesterday, the eighth lawmaker to become embroiled in a citizenship crisis that has already cost Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government its majority in parliament.

YANGON,  (Reuters) – Myanmar’s army released a report yesterday denying all allegations of rape and killings by security forces, having days earlier replaced the general in charge of the operation that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.

DUBLIN, (Reuters) – Irish musician and activist Bob Geldof called Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi “a hand maiden to genocide” on Monday as he returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest over his fellow recipient’s response to the repression of Rohingya Muslims.

BAGHDAD/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the region around the border between Iran and Iraq yesterday, killing at least 145 people state media in the two countries said, as rescuers searched for dozens trapped under rubble.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Saad al-Hariri warned yesterday Lebanon was at risk of Gulf Arab sanctions because of the Shi’ite group Hezbollah’s regional meddling and said he would return to Lebanon within days to affirm he had resigned as the country’s prime minister.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Two former top U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday they fear President Donald Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, after Trump said he believed Putin was sincere in denying Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British ministers rallied around Boris Johnson today, saying the foreign secretary was doing a “great job” and had no reason to resign over remarks that critics say may prompt Iran to extend the prison sentence of a jailed aid worker.

BEIRUT,(Reuters) – From the moment Saad al-Hariri’s plane touched down in Saudi Arabia on Friday Nov.

(Trinidad Express) Four years after the beating death of infant girl Kimora Roopnarine, the child’s stepfather has been charged with her murder.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Two East African presidents on Saturday condemned a decision by the International Criminal Court to open a war crimes investigation into Burundi, saying it undermined regional peace initiatives.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government has set a high-profile location near the presidential palace in Caracas for Monday’s hotly awaited meeting with investors to discuss renegotiating $60 billion in foreign debt.