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BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Gang violence is forcing thousands of Hondurans to leave their homes every month to seek safety in other neighbourhoods and provinces of the Central American nation, a problem that is invisible but growing, says the U.N.

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif., (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence and machine learning will create computers so sophisticated and godlike that humans will need to implant “neural laces” in their brains to keep up, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a crowd of tech leaders this week.

LUANDA,  (Reuters) – Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has appointed his billionaire businesswoman daughter Isabel as head of state energy firm Sonangol in a shake-up that cements his dynastic grip on power in a major African oil exporter.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil may help block Venezuela from taking the rotating presidency of the Mercosur trade group this month, a senior Brazilian official said yesterday, in a bid to prevent Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from strengthening his power.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting “We want food!”

BERLIN/ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkey recalled its ambassador to Germany yesterday in protest against a parliament resolution declaring the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a genocide at a time when Europe is looking for Ankara’s help in the migrant crisis.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Music superstar Prince, who was found dead in his home in a Minneapolis suburb in late April, died of an accidental, self-administered overdose of an opioid painkiller, the county medical examiner said in a death report yesterday.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador prosecutors yesterday asked Congress to allow the government to investigate the country’s ambassador to Germany for illegal arms sales during his time in the Defense Ministry.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lambasted Donald Trump’s foreign policy platform as “dangerously incoherent” in a speech yesterday that cast her Republican rival as both a frightening and laughable figure.

BODO/ABUJA, Nigeria,(Reuters) – Militants launched new attacks in the Niger Delta yesterday, vowing to bring Nigeria’s struggling oil industry to a total halt, and the president cancelled a long-awaited visit to the region.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government said yesterday that a move by the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) to censure the country for breaching democratic norms is an “imperialist” scheme to take the OPEC member’s oil.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzania has begun a nationwide programme to seize land left undeveloped by investors and return it to poor farmers, in a bid to quell conflicts between farmers, herders and developers.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – From pizzas and soups to deli meats, dips and hamburgers, Americans’ diets are often packed with salt.

CHENNAI, India,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At least 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every day, in what has become a multi million rupee industry controlled by human trafficking cartels, police and trafficking experts said.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) has called an urgent meeting to discuss whether Venezuela is violating basic democratic principles, paving the way for a vote that could suspend it from the regional diplomatic body.

HOUSTON/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Four tankers carrying over 2 million barrels of U.S.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not face punishment for manhandling a legislator and inadvertently elbowing another during a fracas in the House of Commons, parliamentarians decided yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti should abandon a flawed election and start from scratch, a commission set up to re-examine first round results said on Monday, a decision that could trigger protests and further delay the vote for the Caribbean country’s next president.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – People returning from areas where the Zika virus is found should follow safe sex practices or abstain from sex for at least eight weeks rather than just four, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – New York’s attorney general, who has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s education venture, Trump University, slammed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday for his attack on a U.S.