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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled a Muslim instant divorce law unconstitutional, a landmark victory for Muslim women who have spent decades arguing that it violated their right to equality.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States suggested yesterday it could cut U.S.

(Emily Parker is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and policy advisor in the U.S.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s government said yesterday that from October Venezuelans wishing to enter the country would need a visa, accusing the administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of undermining democracy at home and security abroad.

  NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court today ruled a controversial Muslim instant divorce law unconstitutional, a landmark victory for Muslim women who had long argued that it violated their right to equality.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela is preparing an international summit to rally support for an all-powerful lawmaking body, whose recent creation drew widespread foreign condemnation as a power grab by leftist President Nicolas Maduro.

SUBIRATS, Spain, (Reuters) – Spanish police yesterday shot dead an Islamist militant who killed 13 people with a van in Barcelona last week, ending a five-day manhunt for the perpetrator of Spain’s deadliest attack in over a decade.

(Reuters) – Comedian Jerry Lewis died of end-stage heart disease when he passed away at his home at age 91 in Las Vegas on Sunday, Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump opened the door to an increase in U.S.

MAPUTO, (Reuters) – Mozambique’s government plans to set up a sovereign investment fund where taxes paid on sales of the country’s minerals will be used to finance development projects, state-run AIM news agency said on Monday quoting the finance minister.

THIRUTHURAIPOONDI, India, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For Nel Jayaraman, the realisation that hybrid seeds, chemical fertilisers and pesticides were making farmers more vulnerable to extreme weather came slowly.

SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy announced yesterday a fleet-wide probe and plans for temporary halts in operations to focus on safety, as it searched for 10 sailors missing after the fourth major accident in the U.S.

  CHARLESTON, S.C./SHERIDAN, Oregon, (Reuters) – As millions of awestruck Americans cast their gaze skyward on Monday at the extraordinary sight of a total solar eclipse, one Connecticut man had his eyes set firmly on a different prize.

HONG KONG/SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – A money laundering probe at Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the latest in a slew of scandals denting the reputation of Australian banks as simple, reliable lenders at the forefront in the battle against financial crime.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe returned from South Africa early yesterday, state media reported, after a 20-year-old model accused her of assault in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room.

  SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Ten sailors are missing after a U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Jerry Lewis, the high prince of low-brow comedy on stage and in film as well as a fund-raising powerhouse with his annual Labor Day telethon, died on Sunday at the age of 91, his family said.

  HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe returned from South Africa early today, state media reported, after a 20-year-old model accused her of assault in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Boston yesterday to protest a “free speech” rally featuring far-right speakers a week after a woman was killed at a Virginia white-supremacist demonstration.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in December, the White House announced yesterday, after several honorees said they would boycott a White House reception before the show.