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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday the United States would like to see Russia engage constructively with the international coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, rather than build up its own military presence there.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rising temperatures at the top of the world may be bad news for Arctic denizens like polar bears, but good news for the local mosquitoes, pesky bloodsuckers that prosper with warmer weather.

ROSZKE, Hungary/VIENNA (Reuters) – Two decades of frontier-free travel across Europe unravelled yesterday as countries re-established border controls in the face of an unprecedented influx of migrants, which broke the record for the most arrivals by land in a single day.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government announced spending cuts and tax increases totaling 65 billion reais ($16.9 billion) yesterday as it races to close a budget deficit that led to a downgrade of the country’s credit rating last week.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian Army aircraft hunting for militants in the desert mistakenly bombed a convoy of mostly Mexican tourists, killing 12 people and wounding 10, authorities said yesterday.

  Teacher who educated Afghan refugee girls wins UN prize LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A teacher who has dedicated her life to educating Afghan refugee girls, challenging cultural sexism by setting up classes in a makeshift tent, has won a special prize awarded by the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR).

OSLO (Reuters) – An anti-immigration party in Norway’s coalition government headed for its worst election result in 22 years in a local vote yesterday after its opposition to Syrian refugees put it out of step with many voters.

BERLIN/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Germany re-imposed border controls yesterday after Europe’s most powerful nation acknowledged it could scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s police and military killed 12 Egyptians and Mexicans and injured 10 when they accidentally shot at a Mexican tourist convoy whilst engaging militants in the country’s western desert, the ministry of interior said yesterday.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – When IRA-linked gunmen turned their fire on one other this summer they triggered a political crisis in Northern Ireland’s fragile government of pro-British unionists and republicans working for a united Ireland.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China unveiled details yesterday of how it would restructure its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including partial privatisation, as data pointed to a cooling in the world’s second-largest economy.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men in the United States and other Western countries to carry out attacks inside there and urged greater unity between militants.

BERLIN/NICKELSDORF, Austria (Reuters) – Austria’s chancellor criticised Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis yesterday, likening the country’s policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country.

LONDON (Reuters) – Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran left-winger who professes an admiration for Karl Marx, was elected leader of Britain’s opposition Labour party yesterday, a victory that may make a British EU exit more likely and which one former Labour prime minister has said could leave their party unelectable.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said yesterday that stormy winds knocked over the crane which collapsed onto one of Islam’s holiest shrines in Mecca and killed 107 people on Friday.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said yesterday.

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada will create an emergency relief fund by matching the donations of Canadians to assist refugees in conflict zones in the Middle East, the minister of international development said yesterday.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – At least 107 people were killed when a crane toppled over at Mecca’s Grand Mosque yesterday, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defence authority said, less than two weeks before Islam’s annual haj pilgrimage.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Singapore’s ruling party romped to a strong election victory yesterday and increased its share of the vote and seat tally as it brushed off an opposition challenge in the city state’s most hotly contested polls.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Fourteen junior judges in Ghana have appealed to the Supreme Court against their suspension pending an investigation into alleged acts of bribery captured on video by an investigative journalist, their lawyer said.