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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday authorized an inquiry into China’s alleged theft of intellectual property in the first direct trade measure by his administration against Beijing, but one that is unlikely to prompt near-term change.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights panel urged the United States yesterday to end widespread detention of would-be immigrants including asylum-seekers, saying the practice has “grown exponentially” and violates international law.

GORAKHPUR, India, (Reuters) – Indian health authorities yesterday delivered oxygen to a public hospital where 63 people have died of encephalitis in recent days, nearly half of them children, as it ran out of medical supplies because of unpaid bills, triggering public outrage.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – All of an estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living in India are illegal immigrants, even those registered with the U.N.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today “establishing discipline and accountability in the environmental review and permitting process for infrastructure projects,” the White House said in a statement yesterday.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va./WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump denounced neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan as criminals and thugs on Monday, bowing to mounting political pressure to condemn such groups explicitly after a white-nationalist rally turned deadly in Virginia.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada laid down a tough line ahead of talks on modernizing NAFTA yesterday, suggesting it could walk away if the United States pushed to remove a key dispute-settlement mechanism in the trade deal.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A Mexican federal police officer who captured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in northwest Mexico last year was moved for his own safety to a posting at the Mexican embassy in Washington, DC, according to two Mexican law enforcement sources.

  (Reuters) – Merck & Co Inc Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier resigned from U.S.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s remarks condemning violence at a white nationalist rally were meant to include the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, the White House said yesterday, a day after he was criticized across the political spectrum for not explicitly denouncing white supremacists.

(Reuters) – Heather Heyer came to downtown Charlottesville with her friends to make a stand against white nationalists who converged on the Virginia college town to demand the city keep a statue honoring a Confederate war hero, her boss said on Sunday.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – The head of an Indian hospital where dozens of children died in recent days has been suspended, as officials traded blame over cash shortfalls that led to supplies of medical oxygen being cut.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities will investigate on Sunday the violence stemming from a white nationalist rally a day earlier that killed one person, injured more than 30, and challenged U.S.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) – At least one person died and 30 were injured in a day of violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Virginia yesterday, with the state’s governor blaming the neo-Nazis for sparking the violence and demanding that they go home.

BEDMINSTER, N.J./BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping said there needs to be a peaceful resolution to the North Korean nuclear issue, and in a telephone call with US President Donald Trump he urged all sides to avoid words or action that raise tensions.

NAIROBI/KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenyan police have killed at least 11 people in a crackdown on protests as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta erupted in the western city of Kisumu and slums surrounding the capital, officials and witnesses said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump tomorrow will order his top trade adviser to determine whether to investigate Chinese trade practices that force US firms operating in China to turn over intellectual property, senior administration officials said yesterday.

CARACAS/LIMA (Reuters) – After months of attacking Venezuela’s unpopular President Nicolas Maduro, Latin America came out strongly against US threats of military action against the crisis-hit nation.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and 34 others injured in Charlottesville, Virginia today when white nationalists protesting plans to remove the statue of a Confederate general clashed with counter-demonstrators and a car plowed into a crowd, officials said.

BEDMINSTER, N.J., (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday threatened military intervention in Venezuela, a surprise escalation of Washington’s response to Venezuela’s political crisis that Caracas disparaged as “craziness.”