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BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany urged other developed countries yesterday to support a plan it is finalising to bolster the economies of Africa, create jobs and slow the flow of migrants from the continent to Europe.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Protesters demonstrating against the election of Donald Trump gathered in several U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition and the government of President Nicolas Maduro engaged in a new round of talks last evening as part of a Vatican-backed dialogue process meant to ease a political standoff amid the spiraling economic crisis.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president poses risks for the relationship between the European Union and the United States, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma is concerned about “unwarranted public attacks” on him by former anti-corruption watchdog Thuli Madonsela, his office said on Friday.

BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania, (Reuters) – The unraveling of the coalition that was supposed to carry Hillary Clinton to the White House had a lot to do with voters like Jim McAndrew in counties like Northampton, Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy rests in part on a foundation of unilateral actions that his successor Donald Trump could reverse with the stroke of a pen.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – A week after his tank division punched through Islamic State defences on the southeast edge of Mosul, an Iraqi army colonel says the fight to drive the militants out of their urban stronghold is turning into a nightmare.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma survived a no-confidence vote yesterday, after the anti-graft watchdog called in a report for a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling in the government.

(Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump put aside the celebrations and focused yesterday on his 73-day transition to the White House as rival Hillary Clinton promised to bury the bitterness of their long presidential race and work to unify a divided country.

NEW YORK/LONDON, (Reuters) – Two days ago, pollsters and statisticians gave Hillary Clinton odds of between 75 and 99 percent of winning the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Both chambers of the U.S. Congress are projected to remain under Republican control when they convene on Jan.

MANAGUA (Reuters) – After clinching a third straight term by a landslide, Nicaragua’s president faces headwinds from an economic crisis in financial ally Venezuela and increasingly rocky relations with top trading partner the United States.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich/SCRANTON, Pa (Reuters) – The US presidential campaign neared its end yesterday in the same angry tone it began, with Republican Donald Trump calling Democrat Hillary Clinton a “phony” and Clinton accusing him of splitting the country, as a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed Clinton with a strong chance of winning.

(Reuters) – Blunt-spoken Janet Reno, who served eight years as the first woman US attorney general and authorized the deadly 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian cult compound in Texas just weeks into the job, died yesterday at age 78.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman shoved an unsuspecting traveler off a New York City subway platform into the path of an approaching train yesterday afternoon, killing the victim instantly as bystanders watched in horror, police said.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega powered toward his third consecutive term as president of the poor Central American country yesterday, as voters cheered years of solid growth and overlooked criticisms he is installing a family dynasty.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI said yesterday it stood by its earlier finding that no criminal charges were warranted against Democrat Hillary Clinton for using a private email server for government work, lifting a cloud over her presidential campaign two days before the U.S.

AIN ISSA, Syria, (Reuters) – A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian armed groups has launched an operation to retake the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State in Syria, the group said yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Flooding killed 10 people in Haiti over the weekend, an Interior Ministry official said yesterday, as the Caribbean country faced more woes while still reeling from a hurricane last month.