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BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraq’s interior minister resigned yesterday and said a deputy would take over his responsibilities, a few days after the deadliest of many car bombings in Baghdad since the 2003 U.S.-led

YANGON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Khin Htar Kyu was in her late teens when she left her village in Wakema Township in Myanmar’s southern Ayeyarwady Region with a younger sister to find work in Yangon to help pay the debts of her farming family.

LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of the insurgent right-wing UK Independence Party said yesterday he was stepping down after realising his ambition to win a vote for Britain to leave the EU, the latest twist in a dramatic reshaping of the nation’s politics.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The family of the late Nelson Mandela is furious that a recording of the revered South African leader’s voice is being used by the main opposition party for campaigning in local government elections due to be held next month.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The death toll from a suicide bombing in a Baghdad shopping district rose above 175 yesterday, fueling calls for security forces to crack down on Islamic State sleeper cells blamed for one of the worst-ever single bombings in Iraq.

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new funding model for development programmes in India which gives private investors a return on their investment has helped get marginalised girls in Rajasthan into the classroom, its backers said.

HONG KONG/LONDON, (Reuters) – As an international tribunal prepares to rule on Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, officials in Washington, Tokyo and Southeast Asia are on tenterhooks.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Nearly 120 people were killed and 200 wounded in two bombings overnight in Baghdad, most of them in a busy shopping area as residents celebrated Ramadan, police and medical sources said yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Vote counting resumed yesterday in a dramatic Australian federal election but a winner is not expected to be announced for several days, raising the prospect of prolonged political and economic instability.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British finance minister George Osborne is planning to cut corporation tax to less than 15 percent in an attempt to offset the shock to investors of the country’s decision to leave the European Union, the Financial Times reported yesterday.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada is exploring the use of gender-neutral options on identity cards, Justin Trudeau told a television station yesterday as he became the first Canadian prime minister to march in a gay pride parade.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for three and a half hours yesterday as part of the probe into her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, her campaign said.

(Reuters) – Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, died yesterday.

DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Bangladesh, faced with the worst militant attack in its history, is probing deeper for possible ties between the men who murdered around 20 people in a restaurant and trans-national Islamist extremist groups, security officials said.

LONDON (Reuters) – British leadership contender Andrea Leadsom said the UK could pull out of the European Union as early as next year following last week’s referendum vote to leave the bloc.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Minister of Internal Security yesterday accused Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, of not doing enough to prevent incitement against Israel and said the social network was “sabotaging” Israeli police work.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Islamist militants shouting “Allahu Akbar” attacked an upscale cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, killing 20 foreigners inside, before police stormed the building today and rescued 13 hostages, officials said.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – It is the stuff of a disaster movie: an outbreak of yellow fever in Congo’s capital city, full of unvaccinated people mostly huddled together in slums with too few drains and the kind of sticky, fetid climate that mosquitoes love.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Justice Secretary Michael Gove pitched yesterday to be the prime minister to take Britain out of the EU, a day after he destroyed the chances of another frontrunner in what some colleagues called an act of treachery.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nearly 2,900 migrants have died trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea, making the first six months of 2016 the deadliest on record, according to figures published yesterday by an international migration group.