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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.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – An election analysis conducted in the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project shows that the race has tightened considerably over the past few weeks, with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump projected to win Florida, an essential battleground state, if the election were held today.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – The European Union has the capacity to absorb a million refugees a year, and could force through new asylum rules by majority voting if consensus cannot be reached, Sweden’s migration minister said in an interview yesterday.

(Reuters Health) – Slowing the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” may take more than just curbing overuse of antibiotics or eliminating antimicrobial chemicals from household products like soap and cosmetics, a new study suggests.

CAP HAITIEN, Haiti, (Reuters) – Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fainted on stage at an election rally yesterday after his blood sugar levels fell, but was otherwise fine, a party official said.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The head of Canada’s statistics agency resigned in a surprising move yesterday over concerns that the agency’s independence is being compromised, making him the second top statistician to quit in recent years.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday dismissed corruption charges against him as a fabrication and said he was being framed to stop him from running for the presidency in two years’ time.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – A self-confessed hitman testified yesterday that President Rodrigo Duterte personally issued assassination orders while mayor of a city where activists say hundreds of summary executions took place.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, one of the leaders of the “birther” movement that questioned President Barack Obama’s U.S.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos yesterday acknowledged the state’s responsibility in the killing of thousands of members of a leftist political party three decades ago and pledged to prevent such assassinations again.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada can improve its anti-money laundering rules regime, an international group that monitors the worldwide laundering of illicit cash said yesterday, calling into question the effectiveness of the country’s financial intelligence agency.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) said yesterday it would start focusing on crimes linked to environmental destruction, the illegal exploitation of natural resources and unlawful dispossession of land in a move hailed by land rights activists.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A Guatemalan judge has barred a son and brother of President Jimmy Morales from leaving the country pending an investigation into their role in a case centering on irregular payments, the attorney general’s office said yesterday.

CURITIBA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors charged ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday with being the “boss” of a vast corruption scheme at state oil company Petrobras, in a major blow to the leftist hero’s hopes of a political comeback.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed distaste for both U.S.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump yesterday moved to show their medical fitness for the White House as Clinton released a letter from her doctor declaring her fit for the presidency and Trump taped a TV-segment about his well-being.