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KINSHASA, (Reuters) – At least 44 people – including 37 demonstrators and six police officers – have been killed in protests over Congolese President Joseph Kabila’s perceived bid to extend his rule, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Convicted Philippine felons yesterday told a Congressional hearing they had bribed a former justice minister and fierce critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, dealing another blow to her efforts to investigate the country’s deadly war on drugs.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to run for re-election in 2018 and may impose tougher authoritarian rule to curb unrest over the slumping economy, the CIA’s top Russia analyst said yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday expressed regret for sexual abuse by U.N.

LINDEN, NJ (Reuters) – Police yesterday arrested an Afghanistan-born American who they suspect of detonating a bomb in the heart of New York City and planting other devices, capturing the 28-year-old in a dramatic gun battle that wounded him and two officers.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Congolese police yesterday clashed with protesters marching against what they claim is a bid by President Joseph Kabila to extend his mandate, killing at least 17 people and prompting a threat of further sanctions from the United States.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin cemented his supremacy over Russia’s political system when his ruling United Russia party took three quarters of the seats in parliament in a weekend election, paving the way for him to run for a fourth term as president.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a ground test of a new rocket engine to launch satellites, the North’s state media reported today, the latest in a rapid succession of missile-related tests this year by the isolated state.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. investigators yesterday were studying possible links between a pair of bombs detonated in New York City and New Jersey over the weekend, although no evidence had yet emerged tying the devices to known extremist groups.

MOSCOW/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Moscow stepped up its war of words with Washington yesterday, saying air strikes by a U.S.-led

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party suffered its second electoral blow in two weeks yesterday, slumping to its lowest level since 1990 in a Berlin state vote that rejected her open-door refugee policy.

SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – India accused Pakistan of being behind a separatist attack on an army base near their disputed frontier yesterday that killed 17 soldiers, in one of the most deadly attacks in Kashmir in a quarter-century-old insurgency.

MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that OPEC and non-OPEC countries were close to reaching a deal to stabilize oil markets and that he aimed for a deal to be announced this month.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Charmian Carr, beloved by fans for her role as the rebellious daughter, Liesl Von Trapp, in the Academy Award-winning film “The Sound of Music,” has died at the age of 73, her family said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, said he views former vice president Dick Cheney as a role model for the No.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – An explosion rocked the bustling Chelsea district of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people in what authorities described as a deliberate, criminal act, while saying investigators had found no evidence of a “terror connection.”

BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – US-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of Syrian soldiers yesterday, Russia and a monitoring group said, putting a US-Russian brokered ceasefire in jeopardy and prompting an emergency UN Security Council meeting.

MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela (Reuters) – Only a handful of leaders have travelled to a meeting of a large Cold War-era bloc in Venezuela this week, in an embarrassment for the crisis-hit socialist government.

YARI PLAINS, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels will continue their fight for social justice under a peace deal with the government, its top commander said yesterday at the opening of the group’s final congress as an armed group.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A 17-year-old has committed doctor-assisted suicide in Belgium, the first minor to do so under rules adopted in 2014 allowing euthanasia for people of all ages, the head of the national committee for euthanasia said yesterday.