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DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran has reached a deal to buy 100 planes from U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats pushing for gun curbs after the latest mass shooting in the United States are co-opting a Republican mantra to build public support and defang opposition: it’s time to get tough on national security.

LUANDA (Reuters) – Human rights activist Rafael Marques has asked Angola’s Attorney General to revoke the appointment of Isabel dos Santos as head of Sonangol, accusing the president of acting unconstitutionally by putting his daughter in charge of the state energy firm.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Over 4,000 people marched in Hong Kong yesterday to protest against China’s detention of five booksellers whose shop published gossipy books about Chinese leaders, including President Xi Jinping.

DENVER (Reuters) – A mother fought off a mountain lion that attacked her five-year-old son while he was playing with his older brother outside his home in western Colorado on Friday, the local sheriff said.

SANTA BARBARA – (Reuters) – A wildfire fed by parched land and high winds spread in Southern California yesterday, prompting hundreds of people to evacuate their homes as the blaze formed destructive columns of flames known as fire tornadoes.

LONDON (Reuters) – When asked his name in a London court yesterday, the man charged with the murder of British lawmaker Jo Cox said: “My name is death to traitors, freedom for Britain”.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Some Republican senators tried yesterday to craft a compromise bill to impose limited gun restrictions in the face of pressure from Democrats and public rage over the Orlando mass shooting, the deadliest in modern U.S.

ORLANDO, Fla.,  (Reuters) – From pulpits in Orlando and beyond, church leaders are reckoning with religious views often hostile to homosexuality after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub, with some wondering if they are contributing to breeding contempt.

FALLUJA/BAGHDAD, Iraq,  (Reuters) – Iraqi forces yesterday entered the centre of Falluja, the Iraqi city longest held by Islamic State, nearly four weeks after the start of a U.S.-backed

(Reuters) – British police said yesterday they had charged a man in the slaying of lawmaker Jo Cox, and said the suspect appeared to have acted alone.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he accepted the United States was probably still the world’s sole superpower and he was ready to work with whoever won the presidency, but didn’t want to be told how to live by Americans.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo could descend into a cycle of electoral violence similar to that seen in Burundi and presidential and legislative polls due in November are likely to be delayed, the United Nations warned yesterday.

(Reuters) – A Venezuelan businessman pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges stemming from what the U.S.

BIRSTALL, England, (Reuters) – A British member of parliament was shot dead in the street yesterday, causing deep shock across Britain and the suspension of campaigning for next week’s referendum on the country’s EU membership.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s tourism minister resigned yesterday, less than two months before the country hosts the Olympics, as the government of interim President Michel Temer lost its third minister in a month to a sweeping graft probe of state oil company Petrobras.

ORLANDO, Fla.,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday met survivors of a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed and said the United States must act to control gun violence and fight what he called homegrown terrorism.

LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian prosecutor said yesterday that late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and two Brazilian construction companies may have bankrolled President Ollanta Humala’s campaigns before he took office in 2011.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s center-right President Mauricio Macri is taking down portraits and closing museums and other tributes to his left-leaning predecessors, getting rid of their cultural legacies as well as their populist economic policies.

ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. investigators have questioned the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the FBI said on Wednesday, and a law enforcement source said she could face criminal charges if there is evidence of any wrongdoing.