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SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Police in Costa Rica arrested seven men suspected of smuggling several tons of cocaine to the United States and Europe, authorities said yesterday, part of a crime ring linked to the Italian mafia allegedly run out of a New York pizzeria.

(Reuters) – The family of a crew member missing from the El Faro cargo ship is seeking $100 million in a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against the owners and captain of the ship that sank off the Bahamas in a hurricane two weeks ago.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma has suspended National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega, pending an inquiry into allegations of misconduct, his office said yesterday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran security forces seized 19 businesses and various properties belonging to the conglomerate Grupo Continental that U.S.

GILZE-RIJEN, Netherlands, (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded on Tuesday in its final report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch.

OUAGADOUGOU, (Reuters) – An autopsy has shown the remains of Burkina Faso’s ex-president Thomas Sankara, a leftist hero known as “Africa’s Che Guevara”, were riddled with bullets, strengthening assertions he was executed in a 1987 coup, a lawyer said yesterday.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said yesterday her opponents are trying to overthrow a democratically elected government by seeking to oust her without any material facts while spreading hatred and intolerance across Latin America’s largest country.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced yesterday the beginning of a process that could lead to a new constitution for the South American country, one of the center-left leader’s key electoral pledges.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Economist Angus Deaton has won the 2015 economics Nobel Prize for his work on consumption, poverty and welfare that has helped governments to improve policy through tools such as household surveys and tax changes.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Pan” walked the plank over the Columbus Day Weekend.

GILZE-RIJEN, Netherlands, (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded today in its final report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch.

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running civil war by intervening on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s government said yesterday Islamic State was the prime suspect in suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people in Ankara, but opponents vented anger at President Tayyip Erdogan at funerals, universities and courthouses.

LONDON (Reuters) – US prices for the world’s 20 top-selling medicines are, on average, three times higher than in Britain, according to an analysis carried out for Reuters.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin turned 63 this week with his now traditional display of sporting prowess, and an announcement that Russian naval vessels had launched a wave of missiles against Islamic State in Syria.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa plans to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC), a deputy minister said yesterday, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan’s president earlier this year.

MINSK, (Reuters) – Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth term in office by a landslide yesterday in an election that could see an easing of relations with the West and raise questions about his ties to Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

ANKARA (Reuters) – At least 95 people were killed when two suspected suicide bombers struck a rally of pro-Kurdish and labour activists outside Ankara’s main train station just weeks before elections, in the worst attack of its kind on Turkish soil.

BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it had stepped up its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, while local observers said several of the air strikes had hit areas in western Syria where the hardline group has little presence.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Department of Defense will seek to make “condolence payments” to families of victims of a US air strike that mistakenly hit a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 22 people, the Pentagon said yesterday.