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GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Europe’s trade negotiator blamed China yesterday for scuppering a global environmental trade deal by submitting impossible late demands at World Trade Organization talks aimed at scrapping import tariffs on exports worth more than $1 trillion.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi vowed to resign after suffering a crushing defeat yesterday in a referendum on constitutional reform, tipping the euzo zone’s third-largest economy into political turmoil.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela will introduce six new notes and three new coins starting in mid-December to help alleviate practical problems in doing business with the world’s most inflationary currency, according to the central bank.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake U.S.

SANTIAGO, Cuba,  (Reuters) – Fidel Castro’s ashes were encased in a large granite boulder yesterday, in a ceremony that capped nine days of public mourning in Cuba that aimed to literally set in stone the legacy for one of the 20th century’s most influential figures.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U.S.

BANJUL (Reuters) – The winner of Gambia’s presidential election told Reuters yesterday he was keen to form a new cabinet to get cracking with reforms, a day after veteran leader Yahya Jammeh stunned the tiny West African nation by conceding defeat.

SANTIAGO, Cuba (Reuters) – President Raul Castro led tens of thousands of Cubans yesterday in a pledge to defend the socialist legacy of his brother Fidel Castro, who died last week aged 90 and will be interred in the city where they launched the Cuban Revolution.

OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) – A fire that erupted during a dance party in a warehouse in Oakland, California, killed at least nine people and left about two dozen missing, raising fears the death toll would rise, authorities said yesterday.

BANJUL, (Reuters) – Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who once vowed to rule the tiny West African nation for “a billion years”, said he had accepted his shock election defeat yesterday, 22 years after seizing power in a coup.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The Dutch government yesterday backed a multi-year inquiry into the end of its colonial period in Indonesia in the 1940s, when troops from the Netherlands are accused of massacres in Southeast Asia’s largest nation.

SIMI VALLEY, Calif.,  (Reuters) – Norway yesterday urged U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to enunciate a clear and predictable policy on Russia as soon as possible, amid growing concerns in Oslo about increasing Russian military activities in the “High North” or Arctic region.

KARUKWAT, Demo-cratic Republic of Congo,  (Reuters) – Charity Mandulu said the executions began soon after government soldiers – around 100 of them mostly from South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s Dinka ethnic group – arrived in her home town of Tore Payam.

MONTERREY, Mexico, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s intervention to stop jobs at a plant in Indiana going to Mexico is typical of what happens in countries that Americans call “banana” republics, a senior Mexican state official said yesterday.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – One of the world’s biggest networks of hijacked computers, which is suspected of being used to attack online banking customers, has been taken down following police swoops in 10 countries, German police said yesterday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Engineering firm Odebrecht SA signed a roughly 6.7 billion real ($1.94 billion) leniency deal on Thursday with prosecutors in Brazil’s biggest graft case while nearly 80 employees of the company signed plea bargains, sources said.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka has torn up his United States green card and renounced his American residency in protest at Donald Trump’s U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court indicted the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, yesterday for embezzlement, a ruling that is expected to fan growing tensions between the judiciary and Congress over corruption cases.

WILMINGTON, Del.,  (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has several options for disentangling himself from his business empire when he takes office next year, but legal experts say the only way fully to avoid conflicts of interest would be to sell his global holdings.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – OPEC agreed yesterday its first oil output cuts since 2008 after Saudi Arabia accepted “a big hit” on its production and dropped its demand on arch-rival Iran to slash output.