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CHARLESTON, S.C.,  (Reuters) – White supremacist Dylann Roof deserves to die for the hate-fueled killings of nine black churchgoers at a Bible study meeting in a Charleston, South Carolina, a U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser working on trade and the Middle East, transition officials said yesterday, in a rare case of a close presidential family member taking a major job.

SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) – State-run Chinese tabloid Global Times warned US president-elect Donald Trump that China would “take revenge” if he reneged on the one-China policy, only hours after Taiwan’s president made a controversial stopover in Houston.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year, and will kill one third more people by 2030 than it does now, according to a study by the World Health Organization and the US National Cancer Institute published today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died yesterday at the age of 82, a big blow to moderates and reformists deprived now of their most influential supporter in the Islamic establishment.

MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraqi special forces battling Islamic State reached the eastern bank of the Tigris river in Mosul yesterday for the first time in a three-month, U.S-backed

BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Rogue soldiers allowed Ivory Coast’s defence minister and dozens of others to leave a house where they had been trapped yesterday when some mutineers appeared to reject aspects of a deal intended to end a two-day revolt, a Reuters witness said.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The chances of South African President Jacob Zuma’s ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, becoming the next leader of the African National Congress were given a boost yesterday with the endorsement of the ruling party’s women’s division.

RIYADH (Reuters) – The young   prince leading Saudi  Arabia’s drive for economic reform has laid out a three-pronged strategy to avoid a backlash from any religious conservatives opposed to his plan, according to remarks reported by Foreign Affairs magazine yesterday.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla (Reuters) – Police in Alaska last year took a handgun from the man accused of killing five people at Fort Lauderdale’s airport on Friday, but returned it to him last month after a medical evaluation found he was not mentally ill, authorities said.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – An American consular official was shot in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second largest city in the restive western state of Jalisco, but is now in stable condition, Mexican authorities said yesterday.

By Peter Van Buren President-elect Donald Trump is clearly antagonistic toward the mainstream media.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., (Reuters) – A gunman believed to be an Iraq war veteran opened fire at a baggage carousel at Fort Lauderdale’s international airport yesterday, killing five people before being taken into custody, officials and witnesses said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The top U.S. intelligence official said yesterday he was “even more resolute” in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats during the 2016 election campaign, rebuking persistent skepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about whether Moscow was involved.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition, still smarting from its failure to remove President Nicolas Maduro last year, installed a new congress head yesterday who demanded across-the-board elections and sought military help to end “dictatorship”.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A Haitian politician and former coup leader wanted for alleged drug trafficking and money laundering in the United States was arrested yesterday, a police source said, days before he was slated to take up a Senate seat.

MANAUS/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors yesterday demanded a multi-million dollar private prison contract in Amazonas state be axed due to signs of corruption as the government blamed mismanagement for the country’s bloodiest prison massacre in decades.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a 43 year-low last week, pointing to further tightening in the labor market.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka should bring in international prosecutors and judges to help investigate alleged atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009, a task force said yesterday in recommendations that were welcomed by the United Nations.