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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.

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more of chemical compounds that can cause health problems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Police in Rio de Janeiro said yesterday they are certain a 16-year-old girl was gang raped earlier this month, but added that it will be hard to prove her allegation that she was assaulted by more than 30 men.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) – The director of the Cincinnati Zoo insisted yesterday that a three-foot (one-metre) barrier around the gorilla enclosure was adequate, even though a 4-year-old boy was able to climb over it and fall in, forcing zookeepers to shoot the ape dead after it grabbed him and dragged him around.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect yesterday of reviving a 2002 Arab peace initiative that offers Israel diplomatic recognition from Arab countries in return for a statehood deal with the Palestinians.

LUSAKA (Reuters) – Africa is unlikely to fall into the type of unsustainable debt trap seen in the 1990s despite a spike in borrowing and widening budget deficits, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said yesterday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The French government and CGT union yesterday dug in their heels amid a wave of strikes and angry street protests against labour reforms, but there were fresh phone contacts between the two sides.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Rio de Janeiro police swarmed two slums yesterday searching for suspects in the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old Brazilian girl who said more than 30 men assaulted her, a case that shocked the nation set to host the Olympics in August.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A judge, called a “hater” by Donald Trump for his handling of a lawsuit related to the businessman’s Trump University real estate school, has unsealed documents related to the case.

QUETTA/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – The brother of a man killed alongside Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a U.S.

ISE-SHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – In Japan, ostensibly to cover Prime Minister David Cameron’s talks with other G7 leaders, travelling reporters had other things on their minds — mainly next month’s vote on whether Britain should ditch its membership of the European Union.

KABUL (Reuters) – The world community has yet to find an adequate response to cultural destruction as shown by the deliberate wrecking of ancient sites in Syria and Mali by Islamist radicals, the head of the UN’s cultural organization said.