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SONOMA, Calif.,  (Reuters) – Fire officials reported further headway yesterday against devastating blazes in Northern California’s wine country but said the death toll of 34, already a record for the state, would likely climb higher with more than 250 people missing.

 (Reuters) – Las Vegas police presented a third version  yesterday of the timeline of events for the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself, saying they responded immediately to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S.

  BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal today upheld a High Court ruling to reinstate hundreds of corruption charges filed against Jacob Zuma before he became president.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday  signed an order to make it easier for Americans to buy bare-bones health insurance plans, using his presidential powers to undermine Obamacare after fellow Republicans in Congress failed to repeal the 2010 law.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Amazon Studios chief Roy Price was put on an immediate leave of absence yesterday, the company said, following allegations that he harassed a producer and ignored an actress’s claim of a sexual assault by producer Harvey Weinstein.

  CAIRO/GAZA  (Reuters) – Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah reached a deal over political reconciliation on Thursday after Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of the Gaza enclave the group has controlled for more than a decade.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump suggested challenging licenses for NBC and other broadcast news networks following reports by NBC News that his secretary of state had called him a “moron” after a discussion of the U.S.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya lurched deeper into political confusion yesterday as a court ruling and a parliamentary vote appeared to ease Uhuru Kenyatta’s path to a second term as president, a day after his chief rival quit an election they were to contest.

MADRID/BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy yesterday gave the Catalan government eight days to drop an independence bid, failing which he would suspend the Catalonia’s political autonomy and rule the region directly.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court on Wednesday ruled that a man is committing rape if he engages in sexual intercourse with his wife who is aged between 15 and 18, a landmark decision that will affect millions of child brides.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Bolivians marched through streets across the Andean country on Tuesday to protest a new bid by leftist President Evo Morales to clear the way for him to run for a fourth term in 2019.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Supreme Court said yesterday it would not investigate the country’s president for receiving a salary bonus that made him one of Latin America’s best-paid leaders.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korean hackers stole a large amount of classified military documents, including South Korea-U.S.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga withdrew yesterday from a court-ordered re-run of the presidential election due on Oct.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Catalonia’s leader balked at making a formal declaration of independence from Spain yesterday, calling for talks with Madrid over the region’s future in a gesture that eased fears of immediate unrest in the heart of the euro zone.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump asked Congress yesterday for a $4.9 billion loan to help the cash-strapped Puerto Rican government pay its bills as the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The New Yorker reported yesterday that 13 women have claimed that movie producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them, including three who told the magazine they had been raped.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican mogul Carlos Slim’s foundation will donate more than $105 million (1.978 billion pesos) to help the country recover from two large earthquakes in September, Slim announced yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Google has discovered Russian operatives spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on its YouTube, Gmail and Google Search products in an effort to meddle in the 2016 U.S.

(Reuters) – The Las Vegas gunman opened fire on a security guard six minutes before he rained down bullets on a crowd and killed 58 people, officials said yesterday in a change to the timeline of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S.