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SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – A judge in El Salvador has reopened the case of a massacre allegedly carried out by soldiers in 1981 that is considered the worst atrocity committed during the country’s brutal civil war, a lawyer involved in the matter said on Saturday.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Police in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region fired teargas and warning shots on Sunday to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival, triggering a stampede that the opposition party said killed at least 50 people.

ALEPPO (Reuters) – Russian warplanes and their Syrian government allies battered rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo yesterday, and rebels and aid workers accused them of destroying one of the city’s main hospitals and killing at least two patients.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will promise to make Britain “a sovereign and independent country” by repealing the act that took it into what is now the European Union next year, she told the Sunday Times newspaper.

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – An overwhelming majority of Hungarians are expected to reject the European Union’s migrant quotas in a referendum today, which should boost Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s standing at home and embolden him in his battles with Brussels.

PARIS (Reuters) – Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told French daily Le Monde.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Pope Francis warned yesterday of a “global war” against traditional marriage and the family, saying both were under attack from gender theory and divorce.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler yesterday and said he would “be happy” to exterminate 3 million drug users and peddlers in the country.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Democrat Hillary Clinton has a 5 percentage point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the U.S.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew surged in power yesterday to become the Caribbean’s first major hurricane in four years as it moved towards Jamaica and Cuba with winds of up to 150 miles per hour (240 kph) powerful enough to wreck houses, forecasters said.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The U.N. Human Rights Council yesterday appointed its first independent investigator to help protect homosexual and transgender people worldwide from violence and discrimination.

(Reuters) – The chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court was effectively ousted yesterday by a judicial panel that found he unethically resisted U.S.

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Indian officials said elite troops crossed into Pakistan-ruled Kashmir yesterday and killed suspected militants preparing to infiltrate and carry out attacks on major cities, in a surprise raid that raised tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals.

REYKJAVIK, (Reuters) – A party that hangs a skull-and-crossbones flag at its HQ, and promises to clean up corruption, grant asylum to Edward Snowden and accept the bitcoin virtual currency, could be on course to form the next Icelandic government.

HOBOKEN, N.J.,  (Reuters) – A commuter train plowed into a station in New Jersey at the height of Thursday’s morning rush hour, killing a woman on the platform and injuring more than 100 people as it brought down part of the roof and scattered debris over the concourse.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers called yesterday for Wells Fargo & Co chief John Stumpf to resign and a top House Democrat demanded the bank be broken up because it is too big to manage.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers expressed doubts yesterday about Sept. 11 legislation they forced on President Barack Obama, saying the new law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia could be narrowed to ease concerns about its effect on Americans abroad.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Denmark’s government said yesterday it had paid some $900,000 for access to Panama Papers documents to help it identify hundreds of suspected Danish tax cheats.

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – India said today it had conducted “surgical strikes” on suspected militants preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-ruled Kashmir, making its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Congress yesterday overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation allowing relatives of the victims of the Sept.