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ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – Paraguay yesterday recalled its ambassador to Caracas after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made disparaging remarks about Paraguay amidst a leadership dispute in South America’s Mercosur trade bloc.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Senate impeachment committee voted yesterday to put suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on trial in the full chamber for breaking budget laws, opening the way for her to be removed from office.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday urged Argentina to be patient with the slow pace of economic progress under its new government, and urged Venezuela to allow a vote this year on whether to recall President Nicolas Maduro.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling party was on track for its worst electoral performance since coming to power two decades ago, poised to lose control of a key metropolitan area in a reflection of rising anger over a stubbornly high jobless rate and a lack of basic services.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental regulator Ibama decided on Thursday to shelve the environmental license request for a hydroelectric dam on the Tapajos River in the Amazon, a project that had been opposed by indigenous tribes and conservation groups.

(Reuters) – The mayor of Stockton, California, was arrested yesterday on a felony eavesdropping charge stemming from a strip poker game he is accused of surreptitiously recording at a summer camp he hosts for disadvantaged inner-city children, prosecutors said.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed yesterday to choke off businesses linked to the U.S.-based

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. woman was killed and five other people injured by a man with suspected mental health issues who went on a rampage with a knife in central London.

BELIZE CITY, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Earl whipped Belize and Mexico’s Caribbean coast with wind and heavy rain, battering cars, disrupting transportation and forcing hundreds into shelters as it moved through Guatemala toward southeastern Mexico yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The World Bank approved new rules yesterday that aim to expand protections for people and the environment in projects financed by the bank while making it easier for borrowers to comply with its standards.

WASHINGTON/JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s White House campaign was in turmoil yesterday after he angered senior Republican Party leaders by criticizing a dead soldier’s family and refusing to back the re-election campaign of House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada launched a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women yesterday, a long-awaited look into the root causes of decades of violence that have led to more than a thousand deaths and attracted international criticism.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party took an early lead yesterday as vote counting continued in local government elections where it faces the risk of losing control of key cities for the first time since coming to power.

LONDON, (Reuters) – One woman was killed and five other people were injured by a man with a knife in central London in an attack which police said could be linked to terrorism.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – A Florida-based company won U.S. government permission on Wednesday to send a robotic lander to the moon next year, the firm’s founder said, marking the first time the United States has cleared a private space mission to fly beyond Earth’s orbit.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York state’s top prosecutor said yesterday his office has sent cease-and-desist letters to seven companies accused of deceptively marketing ineffective Zika-protection products amid growing concern over the mosquito-borne virus.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions in his party yesterday by denying two leading figures, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain, support in their re-election bids.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday named a military general accused of drug crimes by the United States as his new interior minister and removed from the cabinet his top economic official, who was viewed as a potential reformer.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Rome and Ankara traded barbs yesterday over an Italian investigation into accusations that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s son Bilal laundered money.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Florida will conduct an aerial insecticide spraying campaign at dawn today in an effort to kill mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, officials in Miami-Dade County said.