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BANJUL (Reuters) – The World Bank’s Vice President for Africa, Makhtar Diop, said on Saturday he had agreed to give Gambia $60 million in budget support after government allegations that former ruler Yahya Jammeh took tens of millions of dollars in public money, leaving it heavily indebted.

MATOBO, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said yesterday he would not impose his successor and that if the ruling ZANU-PF party felt he should retire, it would hold an extraordinary congress to choose a new leader.

 NATIONAL HARBOR, Md./WASHINGTON, Reuters) – P resident Donald Trump said he would make a massive budget request for one of the “greatest military buildups in American history” yesterday in a feisty, campaign-style speech extolling robust nationalism to eager conservative activists.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – An emboldened Mexico hardened its opposition to President Donald Trump yesterday by saying it would retaliate if the United States imposed a border tax and that it can afford to lose financial aid that might be pulled to pay for a border wall.

  (Reuters) – The shooting death of an Indian engineer and the wounding of another man in a possible hate crime at a Kansas bar has raised fears among members of the area’s fast-growing Indian-American community.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – The United States will request the extradition of former Guatemalan Vice President Roxana Baldetti and a former cabinet minister on drug trafficking charges, the U.S.

  LUANDA, (Reuters) – Angola said yesterday that Portugal’s decision to charge its Vice President Manuel Vicente with corruption and money laundering was a “serious attack” that threatened relations between the two states.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he wants to ensure the U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Pentagon-led plan to defeat Islamic State, due in draft form by Monday, will look beyond Iraq and Syria to include the threat from jihadists around the world fueling the conflict, America’s top general said yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian police said yesterday a preliminary report showed the murder of Kim Jong Nam was carried out with a highly toxic chemical known as VX nerve agent.

  MANILA, (Reuters) – A Philippines Senator and staunch critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs was arrested yesterday by law enforcement agents after charges were filed in court alleging she received money from drug dealers inside the country’s prisons.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico yesterday expressed “worry and irritation” about U.S.

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration yesterday revoked landmark guidance to public schools letting transgender students use the bathroom of their choice, reversing a signature initiative of former Democratic President Barack Obama.

CANNON BALL, N.D., (Reuters) – Several dozen demonstrators, the last holdouts from a mass protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, faced off against riot police yesterday as they defied a deadline to end their months-long occupation of an encampment on federal land.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House has pushed back the release of a new executive order to replace its directive suspending travel to the United States by citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries, a White House official said yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s High Court blocked the government’s attempt to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday, the latest blow to scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma from an assertive post-apartheid judicial system.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China, in an early test of U.S. President Donald Trump, is nearly finished building almost two dozen structures on artificial islands in the South China Sea that appear designed to house long-range surface-to-air missiles, two U.S.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Nearly 1.4 million children are at “imminent risk” of death in famines in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the U.N.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Amnesty International said yesterday U.S. President Donald Trump’s “poisonous” rhetoric on his way to winning the White House led a global trend towards increasingly divisive politics in 2016 that had made the world a “darker” place.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration plans to consider almost all illegal immigrants subject to deportation, but will leave protections in place for immigrants known as “dreamers” who entered the United States illegally as children, according to official guidelines released yesterday.