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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama said yesterday progress needs to speed up against Islamic State militants, calling on allies to increase their military contributions to coalition efforts to destroy the group in Iraq and Syria.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – A bus carrying Argentine border patrol officers blew a tire and tumbled from a bridge into a dry river bed in the northern province of Salta yesterday, killing 43 and injuring eight, authorities said.

ROME (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign minister said Ankara’s patience with Russia “has a limit” after Moscow’s “exaggerated” reaction to a weekend naval incident between the two countries, an Italian newspaper reported yesterday.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The might of the law is the best way to end modern day slavery, by bringing strategic cases to court that can change company practice or government policy, experts seeking to stamp out the problem in corporate supply chains said today.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front did not win any region in French elections yesterday, in a setback to her hopes of being a serious presidential contender in 2017.

PARIS, (Reuters) – At the end of bargaining, when the last bracketed differences in diplomatic language were [glossed over], the global climate accord that emerged from two weeks of talks in Paris proved to be a very a la carte deal.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – President Jacob Zuma appointed Pravin Gordhan as finance minister yesterday, in a dramatic U-turn that gave South Africa its third finance chief in a week after a selling frenzy in the markets.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets yesterday to demand President Dilma Rousseff’s ouster, but the first nationwide protests since formal impeachment proceedings began were smaller than similar events earlier this year.

PARIS (Reuters) – The global climate summit in Paris agreed a landmark accord yesterday, setting the course for a historic transformation of the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming.

RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time yesterday in local council elections and also stood as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but by others as merely symbolic.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Nearly 90 people were killed during Friday’s clashes in the Burundian capital, the army said on Saturday, the worst outbreak of violence in Burundi since a failed coup in May.

CORONA, Calif (Reuters) – With tears in her eyes, Mohammad Halisi’s young daughter asked her father “Why are we bad?”

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday denied rumours he had an affair with the chairwoman of state-owned airline amid media speculation the relationship had led to the sacking of the finance minister.

(Reuters) – Chemical titans DuPont and Dow Chemical Co have agreed to combine in an all-stock merger valued at $130 billion in a first step towards breaking up into three separate businesses, a move that pleased activist investors and could trigger more consolidation.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked military sites in Burundi’s capital yesterday and 12 of the assailants were killed while 20 were arrested after heavy fighting, the army said.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said yesterday that an ambitious global climate deal was within reach, though political concessions were still required to get over some last hurdles.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives are pouring $1 billion into a non-profit aimed at creating artificial intelligence that augments humans’ capabilities, rather than making them obsolete.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump yesterday postponed his trip to Israel amid a controversy over his proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the United States.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – An Indian court yesterday overturned Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s conviction in a 13-year-old hit-and-run case, scrapping a lower court’s sentence of five years in jail for running over a homeless man.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma’s sacking of his respected finance minister in favour of a relative unknown has shocked investors and emboldened critics who say the 73-year-old is driving the economy to ruin.