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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Venezuela  is courting a deeper economic collapse and hyperinflation that could spark an exodus of its people into neighbouring countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday.

LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – When Ines Chou was planning her “Golden Week” holiday, it was Britain’s history and heritage rather than its high street shops that lured her to the country.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump scrambled to prevent his campaign from falling apart early on Saturday with a hastily prepared video statement expressing regret for making lewd comments about women.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came under fire from his own party yesterday after a bombshell 2005 recording came to light in which he boasted in vulgar terms about trying to have sex with an unidentified married woman and groping women, saying “when you’re a star, they let you do it.”

MANILA (Reuters) – US-Philippines ties are going through “bumps on the road” and the Philippine military could manage if treaty ally the United States were to withdraw aid, the defence minister said yesterday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has built up its forces in Syria since a ceasefire collapsed in late September, sending in troops, planes and advanced missile systems, a Reuters analysis of publicly available tracking data shows.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday announced the creation of peace prize in honour of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, and said he was awarding it to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

OSLO/BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist rebels, a surprise choice and a show of support after Colombians rejected a peace accord last Sunday.

BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Rebels holed up in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, President Bashar al-Assad said yesterday, vowing to press on with the assault on Syria’s largest city and recapture full control of the country.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Americans were swindled out of tens of millions of dollars in an alleged tax scam that was run for about a year from call centres on the outskirts of Mumbai, a senior investigator said yesterday, predicting more arrests on top of the 70 made so far.

LONDON (Reuters) – Officials from the US government’s health research agency are to be questioned by a congressional committee about why taxpayers are funding a World Health Organization cancer agency facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Girls between the ages of five and 14 are spending 40 per cent more time on unpaid domestic chores than boys their age, missing out on chances to learn and enjoy their childhood, according to a report today ahead of International Day of the Girl.

(Reuters) – The fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday, intensifying as it barreled towards the southeast U.S.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia further curtailed its cooperation with the United States in nuclear energy yesterday, suspending a research agreement and terminating one on uranium conversion, two days after the Kremlin shelved a plutonium pact with Washington.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The world is swimming in a record $152 trillion in debt, the IMF said yesterday, even as the institution encourages some countries to spend more to boost flagging growth if they can afford it.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI has arrested a National Security Agency contractor on charges of stealing highly classified information and is investigating possible links to a recent leak of secret hacking tools used to break into the computers of adversaries such as Russia and China, US officials said yesterday.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police have requested formal corruption charges against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a case involving contracts obtained by building and engineering conglomerate Odebrecht in Angola, a source said yesterday.

MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reu-ters) – For decades, jobs at  Vene-zuela’s state-run oil giant PDVSA were coveted for above average salaries, generous benefits and cheap credit that brought home ownership and vacationing abroad within reach for many workers.

Farmville, Va.,(Reuters) – U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “small and bullying leader” on Tuesday and condemned his actions in Syria, taking a harder line than Donald Trump at a contentious debate with Democratic rival Tim Kaine.

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte yesterday told US President Barack Obama to “go to hell” and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers.