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LIMA, (Reuters) – Center-right economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a slight lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former president as early results came in from Peru’s presidential election yesterday.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Under King Salman, Saudi Arabia is expanding its confrontation with Iran well beyond the Middle East, no longer relying heavily on Western allies to smother Tehran’s ambitions outside the Arab world.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s excess industrial capacity will have a “corrosive” impact on its future growth and efficiency unless it is reduced, U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico Democratic primary yesterday, moving her a step closer to prevailing over her rival, Bernie Sanders, in the fight for her party’s presidential nomination.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former prime minister John Major yesterday accused the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union of fatuous and squalid claims on immigration and the cost of membership to dupe the public into voting out at this month’s referendum.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Venezuelan Presi-dent Nicolas Maduro called upon Latin America yesterday not to give in to “brutal pressure” from the United States to isolate his government, which is battling intensifying opposition at home and abroad.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – A top ally of Congolese President Joseph Kabila yesterday raised the possibility of a constitutional referendum to alter the number of terms he can serve, defying opponents and western powers who insist Kabila should leave office this year.

NIAMEY (Reuters) – Thirty soldiers from Niger and two from Nigeria were killed in a Boko Haram attack by “hundreds of assailants” on Friday on the southeastern town of Bosso close to the border with Nigeria, the Niger defence ministry said yesterday.

AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army pushed into Raqqa province, home to the de facto capital of Islamic State, after a major Russian-backed offensive against the militants, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s legal team lodged a formal complaint in Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday against the National Assembly’s opposition leaders for allegedly “usurping” his role in international affairs.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Now a court in Senegal has convicted Chad’s former dictator of crimes against humanity to the applause of global justice advocates, could a pan-African court try a sitting African leader who violates human rights?

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.