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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Israeli politicians and more than 370,000 Britons urged their governments yesterday to bar Donald Trump from their countries after the Republican presidential front-runner said Muslims should be denied entry into the United States.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A week and a half of talks produced a slimmer but still-troubled version of a climate deal yesterday, with negotiators from 195 countries divided over how far to go in curbing global temperature rises – and how to pay for it.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – Dozens of people were killed in fighting at the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar after an overnight attack by Taliban insurgents while a key district in neighbouring Helmand province fell to the insurgents, officials said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition yesterday urged leftist President Nicolas Maduro to stop making excuses for his candidates’ defeat in legislative elections and instead urgently tackle food shortages and free jailed politicians.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his plan to the World War Two detainment of Japanese-Americans and others in dismissing growing outrage from around the world.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. and Cuban officials outlined multibillion-dollar claims against their respective countries yesterday as they took up the issue of settling old legal grievances that helped drive the former adversaries apart for half a century.

CARACAS (Reuters) – In a side room of an affluent Caracas hotel, the wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez locked hands with the spouses of other detained politicians on Sunday night as they waited for the results of Venezuela’s legislative elections.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump yesterday called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States in the most dramatic response by a candidate yet to last week’s shooting spree by two Muslims who the FBI said were radicalized.

LONDON (Reuters) – Massive use of antibiotics in farming poses a critical threat to global public health and should be reduced dramatically to an internationally-agreed target, according to a British government-commissioned review.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition trounced the ruling Socialists yesterday to win the legislature for the first time in 16 years and gain a long-sought platform to challenge President Nicolas Maduro’s rule of the OPEC nation.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed yesterday to hunt down anyone plotting militant attacks against the United States as he sought to reassure Americans after a deadly California shooting rampage that has raised new questions about U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders said their coalition won control of the legislature from the ruling Socialists for the first time in 16 years yesterday, though there was no confirmation from the national electoral board.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s far-right National Front pulled off a historic win yesterday, topping the vote in the first round of regional elections, in a breakthrough that shakes up the country’s political landscape before 2017 presidential elections.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered an unexpected message yesterday to the several hundred people gathered at a Baptist church in Georgia for his Bible lesson – his latest brain scan showed no sign of cancer.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif (Reuters) – Islamic State said yesterday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in California which US authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism were followers of the militant group.

N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Four female suicide bombers attacked the Chadian island of Koulfoua on Lake Chad yesterday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 130 in an attack blamed by security sources on militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

LONDON (Reuters) – A man with a knife stabbed another in an east London metro station yesterday evening, reportedly screaming “this is for Syria”, before police used a stun gun on the attacker and detained him.

PARIS (Reuters) – Global climate change talks in Paris moved into a new, tougher phase yesterday as negotiators agreed on a draft accord, albeit one that still leaves hundreds of points of dispute for ministers to resolve next week.

(Reuters, Chattanooga, Tennessee) – The United Auto Workers union won its first organizing vote at a foreign-owned auto assembly plant in the U.S.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif./ WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating the massacre of 14 people in California by a married couple armed with assault rifles as an “act of terrorism,” officials said yesterday, noting the wife was believed to have pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State.