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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.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia has found the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Cartagena and is thought to be laden with emeralds and gold and silver coins, President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Police raided the headquarters of Argentina’s media regulator yesterday, prompting the watchdog’s head to accuse President-elect Mauricio Macri of involvement in what he called a “mafia plot” designed to force his resignation.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA, (Reuters) – Several hundred Turkish soldiers have been deployed to provide training for Iraqi troops in an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is under Islamic State control, a Turkish security source told Reuters yesterday.

WASHINGTON/SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear Puerto Rico’s bid to reinstate a law that would allow restructuring of the debt-burdened U.S.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., (Reuters) – One of the two people accused of killing 14 at a holiday party in California posted an online statement pledging allegiance to a leader of the Islamic State militant group, CNN reported today, citing U.S.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded two today, Egyptian security officials said.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., (Reuters) – The couple suspected of killing 14 people at a holiday party in California amassed thousands of rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs, authorities said yesterday as they sought clues to the pair’s motives and whether they had links to Islamist militants.

CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – The Indian military evacuated more than 2,000 residents stranded in the southern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday as the death toll from flooding rose to 269 after the heaviest cloudburst in over a century.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Polarized Venezuela heads to the polls this weekend with a punishing recession forecast to rock the ruling Socialists and propel an optimistic opposition to its first legislative majority in 16 years.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential chief of staff traded barbs with the speaker of the lower house of Congress yesterday as President Dilma Rousseff’s government marshaled its defense for the impeachment proceedings launched against her on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. military will let women serve in all combat roles, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said yesterday in a historic move striking down gender barriers in the armed forces.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., (Reuters) – A man and a woman suspected of taking part in a shooting attack that killed 14 people and wounded 17 at a Southern California social services agency yesterday died in a shootout with police hours later, authorities said.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – The U.N. atomic watchdog yesterday issued a report strongly suggesting Tehran had a nuclear weapons programme for years, but, in a sign of the shift in ties since Tehran’s deal with major powers in July, Washington said it was not concerned.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament voted yesterday to launch bombing raids against Islamic State in Syria, supporting Prime Minister David Cameron’s case that the country needs to help destroy militants who are “plotting to kill us”.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will let divorced women and widows manage family affairs without approval from a man or a court order, a state-aligned newspaper said on Wednesday, a major step to lift some of the legal powers men hold over female relatives.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Constitutional Court blocked a Catalan secession drive yesterday, deepening confrontation and adding to political uncertainty in Spain before this month’s national election.