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(Reuters) – In the same week that comedian Bill Cosby was arrested on sexual assault charges, his wife, Camille Cosby, learned she must testify in a civil case against the entertainer filed by seven women who said he defamed them, court documents said.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi’ite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members today, signalling it would not tolerate attacks by either sunni jihadists or minority shi’ites seeking equality, but stirring sectarian anger across the region.

MUNICH, (Reuters) – Germany received a tip hours before midnight that named militants from Iraq and Syria were planning attacks in Munich but police have been unable to find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist or are in the country, the Munich police chief said today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Civil lawsuits accusing Bill Cosby of sex abuse and defamation could do major damage to the entertainer’s wealth, regardless of how a criminal prosecution plays out, lawyers who have handled similar cases said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Towns in Tennessee and southern Illinois prepared yesterday to cope with potential flooding after rain-swollen rivers washed out hundreds of structures in Missouri, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma and forced thousands to flee their homes.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s anti-graft agency said yesterday it had sent two reports to the attorney-general’s office about its probes into the transfer of huge sums of money into Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bank accounts and the affairs of state fund 1MDB.

KIGALI, (Reuters) – Rwandan President Paul Kagame announced yesterday his intention to seek a third term in 2017, confirming a decision that was widely expected following the approval of constitutional changes that could allow him to stay in office for years to come.

LOS ANGELES/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The Texas teenager derided for his “affluenza” defense in a deadly drunken-driving case won a weeks-long in delay in extradition from Mexico, while his mother was in a Los Angeles jail on Thursday after being deported.

(Reuters) – Wall Street dropped yesterday, leaving the S&P 500 marginally lower for a year marked by record highs as well as a major selloff.

NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – Bill Cosby was charged yesterday with sexually assaulting a woman after plying her with drugs and alcohol in 2004, marking the only criminal case against the once-beloved performer whose father-figure persona has been tainted by dozens of misconduct accusations.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Rivers and the sea ran red in parts of Malaysia this week after two days of heavy rain brought an increase in run-off from the booming and largely unregulated bauxite mining industry.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s policy chief apologised yesterday after a newly released memo from 30 years ago revealed he had blamed poor morals in the black community for riots and said any investment would be wasted on discos and drugs.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Rain-swollen rivers in the U.S. Midwest forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents, threatened crops and livestock and left scores of buildings underwater yesterday after days of extreme weather in which 24 people died.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge identified the former president of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, as one of several alleged co-conspirators in a bribery scheme that helped SAP to sell millions of dollars in software to Panama, according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s planned cuts in spending and energy subsidies signal that the world’s largest crude exporter is bracing for a prolonged period of low oil prices.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s top court slashed former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s prison sentence to 18 months from six years yesterday after overturning the main count in his 2014 bribery conviction.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when “owners” of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – A surge of El Salvador gang violence this year has pushed up homicides in the country by about 70 percent from 2014, making it a top contender to overtake Honduras as the world’s most murderous nation.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Central American countries have agreed a pilot scheme to allow thousands of Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica to continue their journey toward the United States, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said on Monday.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As drought continues to cripple its hydropower plants, Tanzania is struggling to produce enough electricity – and is moving toward using more fossil fuels to make up the shortfall.