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MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The head of the Mexican army will not permit international experts to interrogate his troops over allegations they may have been involved in the apparent massacre of 43 students last year, and rejects any suggestion they may have been involved.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, (Reuters) – Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases including malaria and elephantiasis won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday.

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp unveiled yesterday its first laptop, a line of Lumia smartphones, a new Surface Pro tablet and an updated version of its wearable fitness tracker, Microsoft Band, all running on Windows 10, its latest operating system.

SYDNEY/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Early industry reaction to a long-sought trade agreement reached between 12 Pacific Rim countries on Monday amounted to faint praise that it could have been worse and umbrage that the United States appeared to be the biggest winner.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, (Reuters) – A Japanese and a Canadian scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics yesterday for discovering that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos have mass, opening a new window onto the fundamental nature of the universe.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The United States and NATO denounced Russia yesterday for violating Turkish airspace and Ankara threatened to respond, reporting two incursions in two days and raising the prospect of direct confrontation between the former Cold War adversaries.

(Reuters) – A pilot fell ill and died on an American Airlines flight headed to Boston from Phoenix yesterday and the copilot landed the plane safely in Syracuse, New York, airline and police officials said.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Authorities in Ivory Coast must put an end to what Amnesty International claims is a wave of arbitrary arrests and abuse targeting opposition supporters in the run-up to a presidential election later this month, the rights campaigner said yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Some 30 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk, deer and wolves, scientists said yesterday.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Finger-printing and registering all refugees reaching Europe would keep out Islamist militants bent on attacks, the European Commission’s deputy chief said yesterday in response to concerns raised in some EU countries.

ROISSY, France, (Reuters) – Air France managers fled a meeting today about mass job cuts after angry staff waving banners and flags stormed the room, according to Reuters journalists at the scene.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) yesterday demanded an independent international inquiry into a suspected U.S.

SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (Reuters) – Despair in the search for hundreds of people buried in a landslide that swallowed part of a Guatemalan town is so deep that some relatives feel lucky simply to have found the bodies of their loved ones.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of people living in extreme poverty is likely to fall for the first time below 10 percent of the world’s population in 2015, the World Bank said yesterday as it revised its benchmark for measuring the problem.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Search-and-rescue teams yesterday located debris appearing to belong to the cargo ship El Faro, which went missing in the eye of Hurricane Joaquin with 33 mostly American crew members aboard more than three days ago, the U.S.

LILLE/LONDON (Reuters) – About 200 migrants broke into the Channel Tunnel from France while several hundred others held up lorries near Calais port yesterday in renewed tension on the route for migrants trying to reach Britain.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican yesterday dismissed a Polish priest from his Holy See job after he came out as gay and called for changes in Catholic teachings against homosexual activity on the eve of a major Church meeting on the family.

KABUL (Reuters) – An air strike, probably carried out by US-led coalition forces, killed 19 staff and patients on Saturday, including three children, in a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, the aid group said.

ROSEBURG, Ore (Reuters) – The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college committed suicide after a shootout with police who were on the scene within five minutes and exchanged fire with him almost immediately, authorities said.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama warned Russia yesterday that its bombing campaign against Syrian rebels will suck Moscow into a “quagmire,” after a third straight day of air raids in support of President Bashar al-Assad.