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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has dived into a spirited debate about graffiti in Brazil’s biggest city, drawing a pointed response yesteresday from Sao Paulo’s mayor, who called the company “opportunist” and challenged it to make a public donation.

WASHINGTON (Reu-ters) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an order to undo Obama-era climate change regulations, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry and calling into question US support for an international deal to fight global warming.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The top six of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party have approved the removal of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, ANN7 television reported on Tuesday, citing sources.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA (Reuters) – A Florida man killed his girlfriend and wounded five others, including her two young sons and a high school student during a shooting spree with an AK-47 rifle yesterday, police said.

TURBACO, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When fighting in Colombia forced Everlides Almanza to abandon her farm, she ended up in a slum near the coastal city of Cartagena where with only some plastic tarpaulin to shelter her, she longed for a new home.

  CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday called for the suspension of an Organization of American States meeting intended to air regional concerns over the OPEC nation’s economic crisis and democratic standards.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry said yesterday it had ordered three more food processing facilities to suspend production amid an investigation into alleged corruption of inspectors and unsanitary conditions in the world’s biggest meat producer.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should consider restricting visas for senior officials from African and other states which refuse to take back illegal immigrants from Europe, Germany’s interior minister said yesterday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia’s incursion into Ukraine disclosed yesterday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, during the 2016 election campaign.

MOSCOW/YEKATERINBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – Police detained hundreds of protesters across Russia yesterday, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against corruption and demand the resignation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

BELFAST,  (Reuters) – Northern Ireland could be set for a fresh election or a return to direct British rule of the province after the two main parties in negotiations to form a new government said yesterday that talks had run their course without success.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexicans who help build U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned border wall would be acting immorally and should be deemed traitors, the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico said yesterday, turning up the heat on a simmering dispute over the project.

(Reuters) – Two teenage girls wearing leggings were barred from boarding a United Airlines flight yesterday because they did not meet a dress code for special pass travelers, a company spokesman said amid a furor on social media.

LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of people marched through London yesterday to protest against Britain leaving the European Union, just four days before Prime Minister Theresa May launches the start of the formal divorce process from the bloc it joined 44 years ago.

DUBAI (Reuters) – A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group’s enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for “high treason” yesterday.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran  yesterday denied US accusations that its fast-attack boats were “harassing” warships at the mouth of the Gulf, and said Wash-ington would be responsible for any clashes in the key oil shipping route.

LONDON (Reuters) – Once the preserve of rich oil exporters or nations with trade surpluses, like Norway, Kuwait and Singapore, an unlikely new breed of sovereign wealth fund is emerging – in countries with large deficits and deep debt.

WASHINGTON/CALGARY, Alberta,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration approved TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL pipeline yesterday, cheering the oil industry and angering environmentalists even as further hurdles for the controversial project loom.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday refused to overturn the conviction of two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady on charges that they tried to carry out a multimillion-dollar drug deal to help their family stay in power.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump suffered a stunning political setback yesterday in a Congress controlled by his own party when Republican leaders pulled legislation to overhaul the U.S.