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CAIRO/ATHENS,  (Reuters) – An EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean yesterday in a crash that Egypt said may have been caused by a terrorist attack.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – San Francisco’s police chief, Greg Suhr, resigned under pressure from the city’s mayor yesterday, just hours after an officer’s fatal shooting a black woman sparked new outrage in a city whose storybook beauty has been overshadowed recently by high-profile police killings.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – A second girl who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on their school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok more than two years ago has been rescued, a spokesman for the Nigerian army said yesterday.

(Reuters) – – Television journalist Morley Safer, who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network’s “60 Minutes” show for 46 years, has died at age 84, a few days after his retirement, the network announced on Thursday.

ROME, (Reuters) – The United States has returned to Italy a rare copy of a letter Christopher Columbus wrote in 1493 describing his discovery of the Americas, after the document was stolen more than 25 years ago and replaced with a forgery.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – An EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean sea, Egypt’s national airline said.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized in Parliament yesterday after he rushed across the floor to hurry one legislator to his seat, was accused of elbowing another in the chest and got into a shouting match with an opposition leader.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A woman was fined and ordered to be deported from the United Arab Emirates for breaching her husband’s privacy by checking his cell phone to see if he was cheating on her, Gulf News reported yesterday.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, (Reuters) – A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first of more than 200 girls seized in a raid on their school in Chibok town to return from captivity in the insurgents’ forest lair, officials said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Streaming down from hilltop slums in the dead of night, hundreds of Venezuelans join an ever-growing line that circles the vast “Bicentennial” state-run supermarket.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has reached a deal with its main financier China to improve the conditions of an oil-for-loans deal, giving the OPEC member’s crisis-hit economy “oxygen” ahead of heavy debt payments, its top economic official said yesterday.

VATICAN (Reuters) – Pope Francis criticized Western powers for trying to export their own brand of democracy to countries such as Iraq and Libya without respecting indigenous political cultures, according to an interview published yesterday.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori said yesterday a report linking her and a senior aide to money laundering was “dirty” politics and an attempt to smear her three weeks before a closely-fought election.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The son of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, a year after his arrest in Haiti as part of a US Drug Enforcement Administration probe.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina was poised to win a second term easily yesterday, with early results showing his record of fast economic growth and social projects swayed voters despite accusations of graft.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, said in a televised interview yesterday that he hopes to reduce unemployment and bring economic and political calm to Latin America’s biggest country.

CONAKRY, (Reuters) – Guinea will take legal action against watchdog group Global Witness over a report that said Sable Mining Africa Ltd financed President Alpha Conde’s election campaign in 2010, the president said yesteday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian national police confiscated 8 tonnes of cocaine along the border with Panama, the government said yesterday, in what may be one of the largest seizures in the country in recent years.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces retook a hospital in Deir al-Zor after Islamic State attacked it yesterday following a dawn offensive by the militants on the besieged eastern Syrian city, a war monitor and state media said.

CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced 152 protesters yesterday to between two and five years in prison each after they demonstrated against a decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources and state media said.