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  NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Four men were found guilty yesterday of the fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi, a crime that shook India to its core and forced Indians to confront the issue of rampant sexual violence in a society undergoing wrenching change.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Four men were found guilty today of the fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi, a crime that shook India to its core and forced Indians to confront the issue of rampant sexual violence in a society undergoing wrenching change.

WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama said yesterday he saw a possible breakthrough in the crisis with Syria after Russia proposed that its ally Damascus hand over its chemical weapons for destruction, which could avert planned US military strikes.

OLYMPIA, Wash (Reuters) – A US adoptive mother accused of starving her 13-year-old Ethiopian-born daughter and locking her outside in the cold, where she died from exposure, was found guilty of homicide yesterday in Washington state.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has tightened control of crossings from the Sinai peninsula and continued assaults on militants after an Islamist group based there said it tried to kill the interior minister in Cairo last week, the state news agency reported yesterday.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – At least 43 people were killed and dozens injured yesterday when a bus went off a cliff on a hairpin bend in rural Guatemala, tumbling some 200 meters (660 feet) into a river at the bottom of a ravine, officials said.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday he will do everything in his power to prevent Nicaragua’s “expansionist” ambitions over domestic territory and called an international court ruling that gave waters to Nicaragua inapplicable.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The US government tapped into computer networks of companies including Google Inc and Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, according to leaked US documents aired by Globo, Brazil’s biggest television network.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Thirty-five people were killed and 40 more were injured when their bus careered off a mountain in central Guatemala and into a river at the bottom of a ravine, emergency services said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – White House efforts to convince the U.S. Congress to back military action against Syria are not only failing, they seem to be stiffening the opposition.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s centre-right opposition, promising tax cuts, privatisation and a smaller government, is set for a sweeping election win on Monday, ousting a Labour-led government accused of wasting a once-in-a-lifetime economic boom.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – An ally of President Vladimir Putin was heading for victory in a Moscow mayoral election yesterday but opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s unexpectedly strong showing could alarm the Kremlin and fuel Russia’s flagging protest movement.

VILNIUS/PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union blamed the Syrian government yesterday for an Aug.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Tunisians took to the streets yesterday to renew their demands that the Islamist-led government step down and end a political deadlock threatening the North African country’s fledgling democracy.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s farm leaders agreed yesterday to end a three-week protest that had turned violent, caused food shortages and put pressure on President Juan Manuel Santos just a few months before he must decide whether to seek a second term in office.

VILNIUS, (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Saturday the EU’s 28 nations agreed that available information seemed to show strong evidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical attack on civilians in August.

SYDNEY/CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia’s conservative leader Tony Abbott swept into office in national elections today as voters punished the outgoing Labor government for six years of turbulent rule and for failing to maximise the benefits of a now fading mining boom.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama resisted pressure yesterday to abandon plans for air strikes against Syria and enlisted the support of 10 fellow leaders for a “strong” response to a chemical weapons attack.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men ordered to leave a U.N.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A senior Bolivian police official, accused of flying to Miami in late August to extort $30,000 from a prominent businessman seeking asylum in the United States, will remain in jail until a bond hearing next week, a judge ordered on Friday.