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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa,  (Reuters) – A metal sculpture overlooks the ocean on South Africa’s southern coast, showing Nelson Mandela with his fist triumphantly thrust into the air and a sweeping line of diverse figures waiting to vote.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s leadership is resisting pressure from elements within the military for a more forceful response to an international court ruling against Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea, sources said, wary of provoking a clash with the United States.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday that Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and she questioned Republican rival Donald Trump’s overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Foreign Minister Jose Serra labeled the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency a “nightmare” and urged all Americans to vote for Democratic contender Hillary Clinton.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities over the weekend admonished the opposition-run National Assembly for reinstating three lawmakers banned over fraud accusations, heightening the power conflict in the crisis-hit OPEC nation.

(Reuters) – A gunman killed a woman and seriously wounded three others in Austin early yesterday when he shot into a crowd as people streamed out of nightclubs in the Texas capital’s downtown area, police said.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian lawmakers voted yesterday to dismiss Prime Minister Habib Essid from office during a no-confidence ballot in parliament, clearing the way for a new government that must push through delayed economic reforms.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s intelligence service said yesterday that the computer networks of 20 organizations, including state agencies and defence companies, have been infected with spyware in what it described as a targeted and coordinated attack.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – More than 500 people rallied in Canada’s capital yesterday to protest the death of a mentally ill black man following an arrest, marching against what they see as race-based police brutality in a country that prides itself for being tolerant.

KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday condemned the “devastating wave of terrorism” and war that has hit the world and urged a huge crowd of young people not to be indifferent to the suffering of others.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Voters in the Japanese capital head to the polls today and could elect their first woman governor, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city’s preparations to host the 2020 summer Olympic Games.

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Queen Sirikit, 83, has been treated for pneumonia at a hospital in Bangkok and is recovering, the Royal Household Bureau said in a statement yesterday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The state prosecutor’s office in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan said yesterday that nine people were found dead near Pemex pipelines in the municipality of Cuitzeo.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The United Nation Human Rights High Commission has called on Australia to give compensation to children abused in prison, after footage emerged of mistreatment.

HARRISBURG, Pa.,  (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took her newly energized White House bid on the road on Friday for a tour of crucial “Rust Belt” states Pennsylvania and Ohio, but the campaign’s focus was clouded by a newly disclosed cyber attack.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Chevron Corp posted its worst quarterly loss since 2001 on Friday and Exxon Mobil Corp reported a 59 percent slide in profit, as the long crude price rout and tumbling refining income inflicted pain across the energy sector.

ANKARA/ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan condemned Western countries yesterday for failing to show solidarity with Turkey over the recent failed coup, saying those who worried over the fate of coup supporters instead of Turkish democracy could not be friends of Ankara.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the former chief executive of investment bank Grupo BTG Pactual SA will stand trial for obstruction of justice, documents from a federal court in Brasilia showed yesterday.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania’s President John Magufuli said yesterday he would crack down on troublemakers “without mercy”, a day after the opposition called for anti-government demonstrations on Sept.

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday Americans faced challenges at home and abroad that demand steady leadership and a collective spirit, and attacked Republican Donald Trump for sowing fear and divisiveness.