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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama notified the U.S. Congress yesterday that he plans to drop Burundi from the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade benefits programme as of Jan.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico will struggle to meet its deadline next year to have a new system of oral trials operating nationwide, the U.S.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – An arbitration court in the Netherlands ruled yesterday that it has jurisdiction to hear some territorial claims the Philippines has filed against China over disputed areas in the South China Sea.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., (Reuters) – An engine on a passenger jet bound for Caracas, Venezuela, burst into flames while taxiing for takeoff at a Florida airport yesterday, forcing frightened passengers to exit the plane using inflatable emergency slides.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. and Chinese navies held high-level talks yesterday after a U.S.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A Venezuelan state prosecutor who helped put prominent opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez behind bars said he apologized to the jailed man’s parents by phone this week after fleeing the country to avoid pressing the government’s trumped-up case.

BERLIN, N.H., (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she believes the U.S.

(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court today rejected Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford’s bid to overturn his conviction and 110-year prison sentence for running what federal prosecutors called a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors will take new testimony from federal security officials to determine what part they played during the disappearance of 43 students training to be teachers last year, which battered the government’s image at home and abroad.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s government, tarnished by a conflict-of-interest row over its links to public contractors, said on Wednesday it would follow new global transparency standards in awarding bids for a $13 billion airport.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – The easing of family planning restrictions in China to allow all couples to have two children will benefit around 100 million families, a professor told the official China Daily yesterday.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of the strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said today, a move aimed at alleviating demographic restraints on the economy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A high-tech U.S. military blimp designed to detect a missile attack came loose yesterday and wreaked havoc as it floated from Maryland into Pennsylvania, dragging more than a mile of cable and knocking out power to thousands.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal financial crime in a hush-money case stemming from allegations of sexual misconduct, marking the dramatic downfall of a once powerful politician.

LONDON, (Reuters) – It has long been seen as the lesser chamber, an anachronism from Britain’s past, but the country’s unelected upper house of parliament briefly reclaimed its long-lost pre-eminence this week when it rejected the government’s welfare reforms.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Basking in the glory of a landslide in Guatemala’s presidential election, a former comedian with no government experience has some unorthodox policy plans: he will tag teachers with GPS trackers to ensure attendance and give poor kids smartphones.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – An 85-year-old international jewelry thief was back behind bars yesterday, charged with stealing a pair of $690 earrings from an Atlanta store in the latest caper of her decades-long career as a jet-setting burglar with sparkling taste.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s opposition challenger in next month’s presidential run-off vote, said yesterday he wanted to find common ground with defeated candidate Sergio Massa and that the two camps were in touch with each other.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Heard the one about the lord, the gangster and the prime minister’s wife?

LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian court sentenced a Catholic priest to 35 years in prison yesterday for repeatedly raping a boy in the school where he was chaplain – one of the few times Peru has jailed clergy accused of sex abuse.