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KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was charged with treason late on Friday for declaring himself president and challenging the election victory of veteran leader Yoweri Museveni, officials from both camps said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, who is leading the “Out” campaign ahead of Britain’s European Union membership referendum, said in an interview that the bloc was following the path of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon by trying to create a European superstate.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency yesterday due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Mobs in Venezuela have stolen flour, chicken and even underwear this week as looting increases across the crisis-hit OPEC nation where many basic products have run short.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Hezbollah’s top military commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in a blast at a base near Damascus airport, the Lebanese Shi’ite group said yesterday, one of the biggest blows to its leadership the Iranian-backed organisation has ever sustained.

DAKAR, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer called on his country to rally behind his government of “national salvation,” hours after the Senate voted to suspend and put on trial his leftist predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, for breaking budget laws.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went on a charm offensive yesterday to try to win the party establishment’s support for his insurgent candidacy, but top Republican Paul Ryan stopped short of endorsing him.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate voted today to put leftist President Dilma Rousseff on trial in a historic decision brought on by a deep recession and a corruption scandal that will now confront her successor, Vice President Michel Temer.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev., (Reuters) – A car-sized sled powered by electromagnets rocketed to more than 100 miles (160 kph) an hour through the Nevada desert on Wednesday in what the Los Angeles company developing the technology said was the first successful test of a futurist transit system called hyperloop.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday denied any wrongdoing after being been named in the Panama Papers as a former director of a British Virgin Islands company set up to exploit a Siberian gold prospect.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the West Virginia primary yesterday, slowing her march toward the party’s nomination.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States signaled yesterday it will work with the apparent victor of the Philippines presidential election, Rodrigo Duterte, despite allegations of human rights abuses in the city he has led for over two decades.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – A German court yesterday rejected a request by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for a preliminary injunction preventing the head of German publisher Axel Springer repeating a derogatory term.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth yesterday that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – A university in Thailand has caught a group of students using smart watches and cameras concealed in glasses to cheat during entrance exams, forcing the cancellation of the tests for others.

HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Taiwanese group has intervened in the Philippines’ international court case against China’s claims in the South China Sea, pressing Taipei’s position that Taiwan is entitled to a swathe of the disputed waterway as an economic zone.

BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian government forces and their allies fought insurgents near Aleppo yesterday and jets conducted raids around a nearby town seized by Islamist rebels, a monitoring group said, as Syria’s military said a ceasefire in Aleppo would be extended by 48 hours starting today.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – A judicial probe of possible corruption during Argentina’s last government is also threatening the new administration as some of President Mauricio Macri’s own allies face investigation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, suggested yesterday he would make an exception for London’s newly elected Muslim  mayor, the New York Times reported.