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(Reuters) – Actor Michael Jace, best known for playing a policeman on the TV drama “The Shield,” was sentenced yesterday to 40 years to life for shooting his wife dead in front of the couple’s two children at their Los Angeles home, a court official said.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s elections council said yesterday it will begin a process of validating signatures of citizens seeking a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro, a small step in the opposition’s effort to remove a deeply unpopular leader.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump offered a message of ethnic harmony yesterday at a Christian evangelical conference as he sought to calm concern about his criticism of a Mexican-American judge.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Five Indian men were sentenced to life in prison yesterday for raping a Danish tourist in the heart of New Delhi’s tourist district in 2014, in a case that reignited worries about sexual violence against women in India.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and leftist FARC rebels agreed yesterday to a pilot project to replace illicit crops, mainly coca, as part of negotiations aimed at ending Latin America’s last and longest guerilla war, which is fueled in part by drug profits.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Keiko Fujimori conceded defeat yesterday to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Peru’s tightest presidential election in decades, but she warned that her rightwing populist party would be a force of opposition during his term.

MUMBAI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bollywood star Anil Kapoor today kick-started a campaign to highlight the plight of millions of children in India who are forced into work, adding that he hoped his celebrity status would influence and inspire others to stamp out the practice.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Dressed in Hogwarts robes and waving wands, eager fans got a first glimpse of the next instalment in the Harry Potter saga, giving a new London stage production glowing reviews.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Veteran Scottish rocker Rod Stewart received a knighthood in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours list yesterday as a weekend of events was launched to mark the official 90th birthday of Britain’s oldest and longest-reigning monarch.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Hollywood’s top stars such as Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford and J.J.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama formally endorsed Hillary Clinton’s White House bid yesterday and called for Democrats to unite behind her after a protracted battle with Bernie Sanders for the party nomination.

(Reuters) – California Attorney General Kamala Harris, the top vote-getter in the state’s U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday accused mining company Samarco, a joint venture between Vale SA and BHP Billiton, of willful misconduct in relation to a deadly dam burst last November, saying the company had ignored clear signs the dam was at risk of collapsing.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Following months of internal wrangling, the U.S. House of Representatives, yesterday passed legislation creating a federal control board to help Puerto Rico cope with crippling debt that is wreaking havoc throughout the island’s economy.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka acknowledged yesterday for the first time that some 65,000 people were missing from its 26-year-long war with Tamil Tiger rebels and a separate Marxist insurrection.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a closer security relationship between his country and the United States yesterday, in an address to the U.S.

KOLKATA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indian police have charged the suspected ringleader of an organ trafficking network accused of luring poor people to one of Delhi’s top hospitals to have their kidneys removed and sold, a police official said yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Dozens of people were wounded in Papua New Guinea yesterday after police opened fire on a student demonstration in the capital and riots erupted across the country, but officials said earlier reports of up to four dead were incorrect.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday banned media from publishing videos of lynchings, saying they create “anxiety and uncertainty” in a country ravaged by violent crime and an economic crisis.

AIROBI, (Reuters) – A nationwide blackout that hit Kenya on Tuesday was caused by a monkey tripping a transformer at a hydropower plant, leading to the loss of more than 180 megawatts from the grid, power producer Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) said.