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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.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Catalan independence supporters clogged one of Barcelona’s main avenues on Saturday to demand the release of separatist leaders held in prison for their roles in the region’s banned drive to split from Spain.

DANANG, Vietnam, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed a joint statement on Syria today that said they saw no military solution to the conflict and a political one was needed, the Kremlin said.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Packed into a remote corner of a pavilion, just 13 U.S.

(Reuters) – Australia and Peru yesterday signed a free trade pact that will eliminate nearly all tariffs Australian exporters face in Peru in a boost for Australia’s sugar industry, farmers and mining services firms, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.

BEIRUT/PARIS,  (Reuters) – Hezbollah’s leader said yesterday that Saudi Arabia had declared war on Lebanon and his Iran-backed group, accusing Riyadh of detaining Saad al-Hariri and forcing him to resign as Lebanon’s prime minister to destabilise the country.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Chinese investors are stepping up their hunt for education assets overseas as more Chinese students seek access to Western educational resources at home or abroad.

DANANG, Vietnam, (Reuters) – Members of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreed to continue working on the proposed trade deal despite early Canadian resistance in talks that had raised new doubts about its survival, officials said.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India plans to use fire trucks to spray water over parts of its capital to combat toxic smog and dust that has triggered a pollution emergency, with conditions expected to worsen over the weekend.

  NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India plans to spray water over its capital, New Delhi, to try to combat toxic smog that has triggered a pollution emergency, officials said today, with conditions expected to get worse over the weekend.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition will resume efforts to hold dialogue, the third attempt in a year by the administration of President Nicolas Maduro and his adversaries to break up a bitter political stalemate.

(Reuters) – A woman has accused Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for the U.S.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping as “highly respected” on Friday as he left Beijing for Vietnam, ending a visit which Chinese media declared set a “new blueprint” for handling U.S.-China

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May should stop misleading voters and admit that Brexit can be avoided if Britain decides to unilaterally scrap divorce talks, the man who drafted Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will say today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. foreign service has seen its top ranks shrink under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to a letter written by the head of the union representing U.S.

TABATINGA, Brazil, (Reuters) – U.S. military personnel are taking part this week in the largest international army operation ever held deep in the Amazon jungle of northern Brazil, in a sign of closer U.S.-Brazil

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – North Korea and trade will likely top the agenda when U.S.

MANILA, (Reuters) – The outsourcing industry in the Philippines, which has dethroned India as the country with the most call centres in the world, is worried that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will eat into the $23 billion sector.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Police seized more than 12 tons of cocaine from Colombia’s top crime gang yesterday, the biggest haul ever in the nation’s long-running fight against drug trafficking, President Juan Manuel Santos said.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Syria’s army and its allies, spearheaded by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, captured Islamic State’s last stronghold in Syria on Wednesday, a commander in the alliance said, bringing the self-declared caliphate close to complete downfall.