World

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – In a report last week detailing sub-Saharan Africa’s dire economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund singled out Senegal as a rare bright spot.

AIN ISSA, Syria,  (Reuters) – U.S.-backed rebels said today they were launching an operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Venezuela is going through a “very ugly” situation and there could be bloodshed ahead if talks between the government and opposition fail, a papal envoy told an Argentine newspaper after his visit to Venezuela this week.

WILMINGTON, NC/MIAMI (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton traded barbs as they entered the last three days of campaigning in the US presidential election with competing events yesterday in Florida, a swing state that could prove decisive in Tuesday’s vote.

SEOUL (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of South Koreans protested in central Seoul yesterday in one the largest demonstrations in the country’s capital for years, calling on embattled President Park Geun-hye to resign over a growing influence-peddling scandal.

LONDON (Reuters) – The head of Britain’s opposition Labour Party will try to block divorce talks with the European Union if the government does not agree to Labour’s Brexit demands, potentially leading to an early national election, a newspaper said yesterday.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey,  (Reuters) – Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of the country’s main pro-Kurdish opposition party in a terrorism investigation yesterday, drawing strong international condemnation of a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 5 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Friday, keeping her advantage in a national survey while races tighten in several swing states.

AL-HOCEIMA, Morocco, (Reuters) – Thousands of chanting, flag-waving Moroccans protested in a northern city yesterday, keeping up pressure on authorities a week after a fishmonger was crushed to death in a garbage truck in a confrontation with police.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. employers maintained a strong pace of hiring in October and boosted wages for workers, which could effectively seal the case for a December interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Two former associates of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were convicted yesterday for their roles in the “Bridgegate” lane closure scandal, following a six-week trial that served to further tarnish the Republican’s damaged reputation.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – African states launched a bid at the United Nations yesterday to halt the work of the first U.N.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British court ruled ysterday that the government needs parliamentary approval to start the process of leaving the European Union, potentially delaying Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans.

CONCORD, N.C./WINTERVILLE, N.C.,  (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton’s supporters nervously eyed opinion polls showing the Democrat with a tenuous lead over Republican rival Donald Trump yesterday as the White House candidates raced through vital battleground states in a late search for votes.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Jacob Zuma faces a no-confidence vote in parliament next week with his presidency mired in crisis, after investigators documented allegations of government corruption and thousands of people took to the streets to demand he resign.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s High Court ruled today that the British government requires parliamentary approval to trigger the process of exiting the European Union, complicating Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – South Africa’s anti-graft watchdog called for a judge to investigate allegations of influence peddling in President Jacob Zuma’s government, in a report released yesterday as thousands of protesters called for the president to step down.

PENSACOLA, Fla./ LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump attacked one another’s character as they pushed their closing arguments six days before the U.S.

DES MOINES, Iowa, (Reuters) – A man known to police for several run-ins with the law, most recently for waving a Confederate flag at a football game, was arrested as a suspect in the ambush killings of two Iowa officers shot in their patrol cars early yesterday, authorities said.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan said  yesterday that he expected a Supreme Court corruption investigation to topple Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and repeated his calls for Sharif to resign immediately.