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(Reuters) – Police in northwest Washington state today conducted a manhunt for a gunman who opened fire in a mall, killing four women and critically wounding a man, media said.

YARI PLAINS, Colombia,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebel group voted unanimously to approve a peace deal with the government yesterday, declaring an end to the five-decade war as it prepares to transition into a new political party.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Warplanes bombed Aleppo yesterday with what residents described as unprecedented ferocity after the Russian-backed Syrian army announced an offensive to fully capture Syria’s biggest city, killing off any hope of reviving a ceasefire.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil Supreme Court Judge Teori Zavascki approved a preliminary investigation into plea bargain deal allegations from former Transpetro head Sergio Machado that cite President Michel Temer and Senate President Renan Calheiros, among others, the court said yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Democrat Hillary Clinton had a four-percentage point advantage in support over Republican Donald Trump ahead of their first U.S.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s October presidential election will be important to easing poverty, acting President Jocelerme Privert told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, as the United States toughens its stance toward a wave of Haitian immigrants.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.,  (Reuters) – Protesters took to the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, for a fourth night yesterday, calling on law enforcement to “release the tapes” of the fatal police shooting of a black man, hours after the victim’s family released its own video.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – The Chilean government on Friday said it signed a US$100 million loan agreement with the Inter-American Development to help the South American nation fight corruption and improve transparency in both the public and private sectors.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Foes of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed yesterday to push for a recall referendum against him this year, defying the country’s election authority which said any vote to remove the unpopular socialist leader could not take place until early 2017.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, (Reuters) – Aboriginal tribes from Canada and the northern United States signed a treaty yesterday to jointly fight proposals to build more pipelines to carry crude from Alberta’s oil sands, saying further development would damage the environment.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian police arrested former Finance Minister Guido Mantega yesterday as a sweeping corruption investigation struck further at the heart of the Workers Party (PT) that ran the country for 13 years.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept 22 (Reuters) – The family of the North Carolina black man whose shooting death by police in triggered two nights of riots viewed video of the episode yesterday, but a lawyer for the family of Keith Scott said it was unclear if Scott was holding a gun when killed.

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said yesterday that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it believed was a state-sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to be the world’s biggest known cyber breach by far.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan yesterday pledged more than $3 billion toward a plan to “cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children’s lifetime.”

CHARLOTTE, N.C.,  (Reuters) – One person was shot dead yesterday in a second night of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials said, as police in riot gear fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a demonstration against the fatal police shooting of a black man who officers said had refused their orders to drop a handgun.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Michel Temer yesterday criticized a surprise move by Brazilian lawmakers, including some members of his party and even a cabinet minister, to wipe the slate clean on illegal donations they allegedly received.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s national election board said yesterday a referendum sought by the opposition to remove unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro could be held in early 2017 if enough signatures are gathered to request it.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand trial on corruption charges, a crusading federal judge ruled yesterday, adding more turbulence to the country’s political landscape.

UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – The United States believes two Russian aircraft attacked an aid convoy near Aleppo in a strike that shattered a one-week truce, U.S.

ELIZABETH, N.J., (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors yesterday charged the Afghan-born man arrested after weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey with four counts including use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.