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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.

(Reuters) – The United States plans to sell 58 million barrels of crude oil from its strategic petroleum reserve between 2018 and 2025 under a budget deal reached on Monday by the White House and lawmakers from both parties, Bloomberg reported.

KABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Rescuers today rushed to deliver relief aid to victims of a massive earthquake that hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 275 people over a wide swath of mostly mountainous terrain.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The US Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer close to China’s man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea today, US defense officials said, a move that could heighten tensions over the strategic waterway.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Roman Catholic leaders from around the world made an unprecedented joint appeal yesterday to a forthcoming UN conference on climate change to produce “a truly transformational” agreement to stem global warming.

(Reuters) Eating processed meat can cause bowel cancer in humans while red meat is a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Monday in findings that could sharpen debate over the merits of a meat-based diet.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania’s ruling party looked set to win presidential and parliamentary elections yesterday despite a challenge to its five decades in power from former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa, who has voiced concerns the poll may not be free or fair.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party, which an exit poll indicated as the decisive winner of yesterday’s parliamentary election, wants to tax banks’ assets at 0.39 percent from 2016, its leading economic expert Zbigniew Kuzmiuk said.

(Reuters) Maureen O’Hara, the flame-haired Irish-American actress known for playing feisty women in classics like “How Green Was My Valley” and “Miracle on 34th Street” as well as her on-screen chemistry with John Wayne, died on Saturday of natural causes at the age of 95, her manager said.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – It was a pre-Halloween massacre at the multiplexes.

AMMAN/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States yesterday proposed steps, including 24-hour video surveillance, to end weeks of violence over a Jerusalem site holy to Muslims and Jews.

SOFIA/RIGONCE, Slovenia (Reuters) – European leaders traded threats and reprimands yesterday as thousands more migrants and refugees streamed into the Balkans on the eve of European Union talks aimed at agreeing on urgent action to tackle the crisis.

CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan state prosecutor who helped lead charges against opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has fled the country and accused the socialist government of pressing him to use false evidence to unfairly condemn Lopez, local media reported.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said today it will go further in its attempts to tackle the gender pay gap by forcing large firms to publish details about the bonuses given to men and women.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Murder rates are soaring this year in many U.S.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma yesterday ruled out university fee increases next year after a week of angry protests by students across the country in the first signs of the post-apartheid ‘Born Free’ generation flexing its muscle.