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(Reuters) -The two main leaders of Venezuela’s opposition are increasingly divided over looming U.S. actions targeting the country, even as a crackdown against opposition figures continues, politicians and analysts say. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has conducted at least 14 strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September, killing dozens of …

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GYEONGJU, South Korea/BEIJING (Reuters) -Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to visit China after meeting with President Xi Jinping on Friday, in an encounter that may have marked a turning point but offered no  breakthroughs on trade. Xi and Carney met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Gyeongju, South Korea, …

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By Abdulrhman Al-Ansi and Khaled Abdullah SANAA (Reuters) -Detained local United Nations staff will face trial on suspicion of links to an Israeli airstrike that assassinated top Houthi leaders in Yemen in August, the acting foreign minister of the Houthi government told Reuters. The prime minister of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi-run government and several other ministers …

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Families lined up at a morgue on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro to identify relatives killed in Brazil’s deadliest ever police raids, and funerals began to take place for four police officers who died taking part in the operation. Authorities have said at least 121 people, including the officers, died in …

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By Dave Sherwood PORT-AU-PRINCE/KINGSTON/HAVANA (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa’s confirmed death toll climbed to 49 on Thursday, according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the northern Caribbean and picking up speed as it headed past Bermuda in the North Atlantic. Authorities in Haiti, which was not directly hit but nevertheless suffered days of torrential …

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LIMA (Reuters) -Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru’s late former President Alberto Fujimori, said on Thursday she will run for president in the April election, days after Peru’s constitutional court dismissed a money-laundering case against her. Fujimori ran in Peru’s three most recent presidential elections, finishing in each as the runner-up. Her last bid was …

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