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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country conducted a hydrogen bomb test as a self-defensive step against a US threat of nuclear war and had a sovereign right to do so without being criticised, state news agency KCNA reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – A Muslim advocacy group yesterday called on Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologize after a Muslim woman engaged in a silent protest was removed by security personnel and booed by the crowd at his rally in South Carolina on Friday night.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Armed men shot dead a police officer and a soldier in their car on the outskirts of Cairo yesterday, Egypt’s state news agency said, a day after suspected militants armed with knives wounded three European tourists in a Red Sea resort.

MAINZ/COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – Migrants who commit crimes should lose their right to asylum, German chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday, toughening her tone as crowds gathered in Cologne angered by mass assaults on women on New Year’s Eve.

LOS MOCHIS, Mexico, (Reuters) – For years the world’s most wanted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman used tunnels to smuggle billions of dollars worth of drugs into the United States and to evade capture – until Mexico’s government got wise to his game.

(Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed lower yesterday, ending a volatile week with their worst five-day start to a year ever, as sliding oil prices and lingering worries about the global economy offset upbeat U.S.

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress, outraged over the Obama administration’s pursuit of Central American migrant families for deportation, yesterday called for a halt and new protections for undocumented people from three crime-infested countries.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena marked his first year in office yesterday by pardoning a Tamil Tiger rebel convicted of plotting to murder him a decade ago.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s federal investigator yesterday arrested the founder of PACL Ltd over allegations the property company cheated investors of $6.8 billion, in what local media is calling the country’s biggest financial scandal.

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – A gunman claiming allegiance to Islamic State militants shot and seriously wounded a Philadelphia police officer, saying he ambushed his patrol car “in the name of Islam,” the city’s police commissioner said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Bahamian man pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he hacked into celebrities’ email accounts to steal unreleased movies and television scripts, personal information and sexually explicit videos that he then tried to sell.

MUNICH, (Reuters) – Heavy demand for the first edition of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to be printed in Germany since his death is taking its publisher by surprise, with orders received for almost four times the print run.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition wants to use its majority in the new congress to bring the central bank back under legislative control in a first measure to try to influence economic policy, lawmakers said.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China’s yuan firmed in early trade today after the central bank strengthened its official rate for the first time in nine trading days.

WASHINGTON/SEOUL, (Reuters) – The United States called on China yesterday to end “business as usual” with its ally North Korea after Pyongyang defied world powers by announcing it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – At least 47 people were killed yesterday when Libya’s worst bomb attack since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi hit a police training centre as hundreds of recruits gathered for a morning meeting.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A rare crested macaque that took a now internationally famous “selfie” cannot own the copyright to the photograph because he is not human, a U.S.

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – At least 65 people were killed today when one of Libya’s worst truck bombs in years exploded at a police training centre in the town of Zliten, local officials and hospital sources said.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro named a hardline sociologist yesterday to steer Venezuela’s economy during an acute recession that is battering the OPEC nation and has cost the ruling Socialists’ control of congress.

SEOUL/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – North Korea said it successfully tested a nuclear bomb yesterday, drawing threats of further sanctions even though the United States and weapons experts voiced doubts the device was as advanced as the isolated nation claimed.