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MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Bolivia said President Evo Morales’ plane was diverted on a flight from Russia and forced to land in Austria over suspicions that Edward Snowden might be on board, as several countries spurned the former U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Obama administration yesterday said it will not require employers to provide health insurance for their workers until 2015, delaying a key provision of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law by a year, to beyond the next election.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said today that Edward Snowden, the former U.S.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s armed forces handed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi a virtual ultimatum to share power yesterday, giving feuding politicians 48 hours to compromise or have the army impose its own road map for the country.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Two top managers of the scandal-plagued Vatican bank resigned yesterday following the arrest of a high-ranking cleric with close ties to the financial institution, in the latest of a string of embarrassments for the Holy See.

LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence yesterday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow to say he remains free to make new disclosures about US spying activity.

ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian government rights watchdog said it had credible reports the country’s own forces carried out extra-judicial killings, torture, rape and arbitrary detention in efforts to quell an Islamist insurgency in the northeast.

MUQDADIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mourning ceremony inside a Shi’ite mosque in Iraq late yesterday, killing at least 22 people, police said.

Washington, (Reuters) – Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, charged with leaking secret U.S.

PRESCOTT, Ariz.,  (Reuters) – An elite team of 19 firemen were killed on Sunday in one of deadliest U.S.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt was locked in a tense standoff yesterday after millions of protesters swarmed into the streets to demand the resignation of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and militants set the ruling Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters on fire.

(Jamaica Observer) Retired police officer and revered crime-fighter Reneto Adams wants the police force, which he served for 41 years, to be scrapped and replaced by another institution.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Delegations from over a dozen countries that are members of the Venezuelan-led oil alliance Petrocaribe agreed on Saturday to adopt a framework for promoting trade within the block.

(Trinidad Express) Acting chief executive of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) Robert Corbie has resigned with immediate effect from the cash-strapped national carrier.

PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said today the fate of former U.S.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Mass demonstrations across Egypt today may determine its future, two and half years after people power toppled a dictator they called Pharaoh and ushered in a democracy crippled by bitter divisions.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff’s approval rating sank by 27 percentage points in the last three weeks, a poll showed yesterday in the strongest evidence yet that the recent wave of street protests sweeping Brazil poses a serious threat to her likely re-election bid next year.

ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union at midnight tonight, a milestone that caps the Adriatic republic’s recovery from war but is tinged with anxiety over the state of the economy and the bloc it joins.

BERLIN (Reuters) – The United States has bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine yesterday, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged US spy programmes.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched a major offensive yesterday against rebels in Homs, a centre of the two-year-old uprising, in their latest drive to secure an axis connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean.