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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.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Any talks to renew the North American Free Trade Agreement would involve all three member nations, a top Canadian official said yesterday, dampening speculation the United States might seek to sit down with Canada first and then Mexico.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The US military is “not in Iraq to seize anybody’s oil”, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said, distancing himself from remarks by President Donald Trump, as he held talks with Iraqi leaders yesterday.

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government has drafted a law to allow authorities to tap into the phone and computer data of asylum-seekers if there are doubts about their nationalities – an unusual move in a country where data protection is sacred.

OSLO, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Norway has joined an international initiative to raise millions of dollars to replace shortfalls left by US President Donald Trump’s ban on US-funded groups worldwide providing information on abortion.

  GENEVA/KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo must investigate credible reports of atrocities including summary executions by the armed forces, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein said yesterday.

MOSCOW/PODGORICA,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin today rejected “irresponsible” allegations by Montenegro that Russia was involved in a plot to assassinate its prime minister Milo Djukanovic.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri used some of his harshest language yet against Venezuela’s socialist government in comments to Spanish media published yesterday ahead of his trip to Madrid.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba said on Friday the United States had deported 117 migrants back to the island nation since ending its policy granting automatic residency to almost every Cuban who reached US soil as part of the normalization of relations.