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SAINT DENIS, France, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid yesterday that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris’s business district, days after a wave of attacks killed 129 across the French capital.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Islamic State’s official magazine carried a photo yesterday of a Schweppes soft drink can it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran authorities said yesterday they had intercepted six Syrian nationals traveling on doctored Greek passports in the past week, including five who had been trying to reach the United States.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – All drugs including cocaine, heroin and crystal meth will be legal in drug-scarred Mexico within 10 years, former Mexican President Vicente Fox believes, after a court ruling that he said makes the legalization of marijuana inevitable.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China – including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said yesterday.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An army of religious sisters who rescue victims of human trafficking by posing as prostitutes to infiltrate brothels and buying children being sold into slavery, is expanding to 140 countries, its chairman said yesterday.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s harsh religious tradition is seen by many outsiders – and some Saudi liberals – as a root cause of the international jihadist threat that has inflamed the Middle East for years and struck in Paris last week.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian miner Samarco said yesterday it is conducting real-time monitoring and emergency repairs on two of its tailings dams that suffered damage in the wake of the Nov.

KIGALI, (Reuters) – Rwanda’s senate yesterday unanimously ap-proved a draft constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to seek a third term in office, the head of the senate said, clearing the path for a referendum that is not expected to face much opposition.

BRUSSELS/PARIS, (Reuters) – French police had three opportunities to catch a Belgian suspect in the Paris attacks and each time let him go, a defence lawyer said yesterday, adding to the missed signals complicating efforts to track down those behind an onslaught in which 129 people were killed.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Congress yesterday upheld President Dilma Rousseff’s veto of a bill to raise judiciary employees’ wages, in a victory for the leftist leader as she tries to avert a fiscal meltdown and regain investors’ confidence.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tragedy struck early yesterday morning in Diego Martin as a two-year-old girl was shot and killed by gunmen.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Police raided the trading desk of Argentina’s central bank yesterday after a prosecutor accused the monetary regulator’s president of directing the bank to sell U.S.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – France invoked the European Union’s mutual assistance clause for the first time today, asking its partners for military help and other aid in missions in the Middle East and Africa after the Paris attacks.

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia yesterday to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State following the attacks across Paris, and announced a wave of measures to combat terrorism in France.

LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists seeking a cure for the AIDS virus have made an unexpected discovery with a drug designed to combat alcoholism which they say could be a critical part of a strategy to “wake up” and then kill dormant HIV hiding in the body.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday delayed his return home from South Korea as tension comes to a head between his supporters and those of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

PARIS/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria yesterday as police in Europe widened their investigations into coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta criticised foreign envoys yesterday, telling them the East African nation was “tired of interference”.

PARIS (Reuters) – French prosecutors said yesterday that three coordinated teams of gunmen and suicide bombers carried out a wave of attacks across Paris that killed 129 people in what President Francois Hollande called an “act of war” by Islamic State.