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HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said on Tuesday it was granting pardons to 787 convicts in response to Pope Francis’ Holy Year call to all heads of state for acts of clemency.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said yesterday there were preliminary grounds to believe US forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan and at secret detention facilities elsewhere in 2003 and 2004.

OTTAWA/MONTREAL (Reuters) – A Canadian airliner with 54 passengers on board had to swerve to avoid an unmanned flying object near Toronto early yesterday, slightly injuring two cabin crew, in the most serious case of its kind in Canada, officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump is in for a quick wake-up call and will have to adjust his temperament when he confronts the realities of his new job on January 20, President Barack Obama said yesterday.

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) – The world is set to notch up a new heat record in 2016 after a sizzling 2015 as global warming stokes more floods and rising sea levels, the UN weather agency said yesterday at climate change talks overshadowed by Donald Trump’s election win.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump yesterday picked Reince Priebus, a Washington insider who heads the Republican National Committee, as White House chief of staff, signaling a willingness to work with Congress to advance his agenda when he takes office in January.

MARRAKESH, Morocco, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States would become “a kind of rogue country” if it pulls out of an international agreement to combat global warming, leaving the world more vulnerable to droughts and other climate extremes, warned Mary Robinson, a former Irish president and human rights advocate.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake rocked New Zealand yesterday killing at least two people, damaging roads and buildings, and prompting a tsunami warning that sent thousands fleeing to higher ground.

SOFIA, (Reuters) – Bulgarian Socialist ally Rumen Radev, a Russia-friendly newcomer to politics, won yesterday’s presidential election by a wide margin, exit polls showed, prompting centre-right Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to pledge to resign.

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – An explosion claimed by militant group Islamic State ripped through a Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores, officials said.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors said they have evidence to convict ex-president Ollanta Humala of money laundering, accusing him of taking illicit funds from Venezuela and Brazilian construction companies, the attorney general’s office said Friday.

  NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES(Reuters) – Chanting “Not my president” and “Love trumps hate,” thousands of demonstrators took the streets in cities across the United States yesterday to protest against President-elect Donald Trump, who they say threatens their civil and human rights.

WASHINGTON/MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) – Donald Trump is seeking quick ways of withdrawing from a global agreement to limit climate change, a source on his transition team said, defying widening international backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – The skin on five-year-old Doaa’s legs, arms and neck is blackened and hard even weeks after the attack.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Anger was rising across India yesterday as banks struggled to dispense cash after the government withdrew large denomination notes in a shock move aimed at uncovering billions of dollars of unaccounted wealth hidden from the taxman.

(Reuters Health) – Studies on the long-term effects of habitual barefoot walking or running are scarce, and there is only limited evidence for more foot problems and no evidence for higher injury rates among people who are often barefoot, according to a new review.

By John Lloyd John Lloyd co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is senior research fellow.

HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and Marxist guerillas said yesterday they agreed on a revised peace deal to end a 52-year war, six weeks after the original was narrowly rejected in a referendum amid objections it was too favorable to the rebels.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton blamed FBI director James Comey for her stunning defeat in Tuesday’s presidential election in a conference call with her top campaign funders on Saturday, according to two participants on the call.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump began laying the groundwork yesterday to take office on Jan.