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(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said today it will postpone enforcement of a new law that cracks down on offshore tax avoidance by Americans by six months until July 1, 2014, giving foreign banks more time to determine how to comply.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Heathrow airport said today it had closed both its runways after a fire aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi called for protests today, and Egyptians prayed there would be no repeat of clashes that killed more than 90 people in the last week and left the Arab world’s biggest nation bitterly divided.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported yesterday, sometimes followed months later by quakes big enough to destroy buildings.

DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – Ireland’s parliament voted yesterday to allow abortion under certain conditions for the first time, following months of polarising debate in the Catholic country including letters to the premier written in blood.

SANTA ANA, Calif.,  (Reuters) – A Saudi princess charged with bringing a Kenyan woman to the United States as a domestic servant and holding her against her will could face more charges, a California prosecutor who likened the case to “slavery” said yesterday.

BRASILIA/BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Latin American governments urged the United States yesterday to be more forthcoming in answering allegations of U.S.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, with his arm in a cast, accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded “not guilty” to committing the worst mass-casualty attack on U.S.

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec,  (Reuters) – The head of the company whose runaway oil-tanker train exploded and devastated a Quebec town faced cries of “murderer” from residents yesterday, and he said the train’s hand brakes were likely set improperly, causing the calamity.

(Reuters) – Lee Harvey Oswald had closer ties to Cuba’s intelligence agency in the months before his fatal shooting of John F.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s interim authorities, boosted by $8 billion in Gulf aid, start work on forming a cabinet yesterday, a week after the elected Islamist president was ousted by the army leading to a wave of violence in which at least 90 people were killed.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden will likely accept asylum in Venezuela to escape prosecution in the United States, said Glenn Greenwald, the U.S.

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec,  (Reuters) – Canadian police yesterday said they had opened a criminal investigation into the train explosion that likely killed 50 people in Lac-Megantic, and some 200 officers were scouring the town’s devastated center for clues.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s central bank has warned businesses to stop rejecting commemorative bank notes bearing the image of Eva Peron to mark the 60th anniversary of the iconic former first lady’s death.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s interim head of state has set a speedy timetable for elections to drag the Arab world’s biggest country from crisis, after the military ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last week sparked a wave of bloody protests.

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia yesterday demanded France, Portugal, Spain and Italy reveal who told them that former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was aboard President Evo Morales’ flight from Moscow last week.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden lived in plain sight for almost a decade and was once even pulled over for speeding but not apprehended, thanks to the incompetence of Pakistan’s intelligence and security services, an official report into his killing said yesterday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Brazilian government, under pressure to improve public health services, has dropped plans to import a contingent of Cuban doctors and is instead looking to hire physicians in Spain and Portugal, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed yesterday for forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel fighters in Syria to put down their weapons during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden lived in plain sight for almost a decade and was once even pulled over for speeding but not apprehended, thanks to the incompetence of Pakistan’s intelligence and security services, an official report into his killing said on Monday.