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SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – A strong earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Central America shook the region yesterday just as a hurricane barreled into the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but there were no immediate reports of any quake damage.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – A suicide truck bomb killed about 100 people, most of them Iranian Shi’ite pilgrims, at a petrol station in the city of Hilla 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad yesterday, police and medical sources said.

 (Reuters) -India has overtaken California and now has the largest solar farm in one location in the world.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump yesterday named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic with little foreign policy experience, to be the next U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A loner obsessed with Nazis and extreme right-wing ideology was sentenced yesterday to spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering lawmaker Jo Cox in a frenzied street attack that stunned Britain a week before the European Union referendum.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency with less support from black and Hispanic voters than any president in at least 40 years, a Reuters review of polling data shows, highlighting deep national divisions that have fueled incidents of racial and political confrontation.

MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippines’ police chief broke down before a Senate inquiry yesterday and vowed to stand by President Rodrigo Duterte and his deadly war on drugs, after a narcotics kingpin testified to entrenched police involvement in the illicit trade.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma said yesterday an anti-corruption watchdog had no right to call for a judicial inquiry into alleged influence-peddling in his government, describing its report as unfair.

TOKYO/SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – An ambitious Asia-Pacific trade pact linking the United States and 11 countries lay in tatters yesterday after U.S.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – A new peace accord between Colombia’s government and Marxist FARC rebels will be signed tomorrow and sent to Congress for approval, President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday, bringing a formal end to the 52-year civil war ever closer.

(Reuters) – Some of Donald Trump’s strongest conservative supporters are voicing anger and disappointment at the president-elect’s comments yesterday that he might back off his campaign pledge of pursuing a prosecution of former rival Hillary Clinton.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Former Senator Delcídio do Amaral described as “surreal” the notion that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was not aware of a giant corruption scheme active during his tenure, in testimony on Monday marking the start of the trial against the man that ran Brazil from 2003 to 2010.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks extended their post-U.S. election rally yesterday with moderate gains that pushed the Dow above 19,000 and the three major indexes to record closing levels for a second straight day.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – It is no surprise that Democrats in the U.S.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – German archivists have found a letter written by U.S.

(Reuters) – Rapper Kanye West was reported yesterday to be undergoing a spiritual crisis after being hospitalized for exhaustion following the cancellation of the remainder of his U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Election tensions spilled onto Haiti’s streets yesterday with shots fired outside the presidential palace as various candidates claimed victory in a re-run vote in the impoverished Caribbean country.

TOKYO (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake rock-ed northern  Japan  today, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, generating a tsunami that hit the same region devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President-elect Donald Trump met with a stream of Cabinet hopefuls at his Manhattan office tower yesterday, but made no further announcements, keeping candidates and the public guessing about the shape of the administration that will take over on January 20.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The number of besieged Syrians has more than doubled over the past year to nearly one million, the United Nations aid chief told the Security Council yesterday, as the United States named 13 Syrian military commanders it accused of killing civilians.