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UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Venezuela complained yesterday that the United Nations Security Council was not respecting the views of its non-permanent members, after abstaining on a vote for at least the seventh time this year and saying it was shut out of negotiations.

GENEVA/LONDON, (Reuters) – The world’s first malaria vaccine is promising but should be used on a pilot basis before any wide-scale use, given its limited efficacy, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said yesterday.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, (Reuters) – Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms on record, struck Mexico’s Pacific coast yesterday with destructive winds that tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party has listed golf and gluttony as violations for the first time as it tightens its rules to stop officials from engaging in corrupt practices, while also turning an even sterner eye on sexual impropriety.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton passed a tough political test yesterday, calmly deflecting harsh Republican criticism of her handling of the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, during a testy 11-hour hearing in Congress.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The fatal shooting of a Guyana-born New York City police officer on Tuesday has turned a spotlight on a court-mandated drug treatment program that kept the accused killer out of jail as part of a national effort to find alternatives to prison for non-violent offenders.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South African riot police fired stun grenades yesterday at hundreds of protesting students who stormed the parliament precinct in Cape Town to try to disrupt the reading of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s interim budget.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to finance nuclear power stations in Britain, crowning a visit that Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will unleash a wave of investment from the world’s second largest economy.

BALLABHGARH, India, (Reuters) – Police in northern India have arrested four men over allegations that they burnt alive two low-caste children, an official said yesterday, a case that triggered a street protest and drew condemnation from an opposition leader.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremlin’s potential to help broker a political settlement to the crisis as he tried to show the West Russia has become a major player in the Middle East.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – The Texas boy arrested for bringing to school a homemade clock that was mistaken for a bomb is moving to Qatar, his family said on Tuesday, a few hours after he was at the White House for an astronomy night hosted by President Barack Obama.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unveiled more charges against a billionaire Macau real estate developer and three others accused of engaging in a bribery scheme involving a former president of the United Nations General Assembly.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s government will mount a new search in tandem with international experts for the remains of dozens of students training to be teachers who were abducted and apparently massacred a year ago, bowing to widespread domestic and international pressure.

MONTREAL/OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau, who came from behind to trounce his Conservative rivals and snatch a majority mandate, now has to deliver on pledges from tackling climate change to legalizing marijuana.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Large purchases of farmland can at times be cloaked in secrecy, but a new online database is aiming to shed light on such deals globally by publishing contracts between governments and investors, according to its organizers.

MONTREAL/CALGARY, (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to a stunning majority election victory yesterday toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa.

TRAPANI, ITALY (Reuters) – Germany, Turkey and Italy are set to keep their deployments in Afghanistan at current levels, senior NATO officials said yesterday after the US government decided to prolong its 14-year-old military presence there.

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The World Medical Association, representing more than ten million physicians, has adopted guidelines to treat transgender people in ways that respect their choices and rights and do not question their sexuality, the global group said.

BERKASOVO, SERBIA/LJUBLJANA (Reuters) The Balkans struggled with a growing backlog of migrants yesterday after Hungary sealed its southern border and Slovenia tried to impose a limit, leaving thousands stranded on cold, rain-drenched borders where tempers frayed.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Anti-slavery campaigners called today for a major increase in research and funding to treat the mental trauma suffered by survivors of slavery, including victims of sex trafficking and bonded labour.