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JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela remained in hospital for a third day today with a lung infection and his condition was “serious but stable”, unchanged from Saturday, the government said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Acrimony over the selection yesterday of Narendra Modi to head the opposition’s campaign in India’s coming election exposed rifts within his Hindu nationalist party.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s foreign minister, vowing not to give up “a single drop of water from the Nile”, said yesterday he would go to Addis Ababa to discuss a giant dam that Ethiopia has begun building in defiance of Cairo’s objections.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A 29-year-old contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency revealed top secret U.S.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif  (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed yesterday that North Korea must give up its nuclear weapons, during a two-day summit where Obama directly aired US concerns about Chinese cyber theft to his counterpart.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in a “serious but stable” condition yesterday after being taken to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection, the government said.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party yesterday ruled out early elections as tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators defied his call for an immediate end to protests.

BEIJING (Reuters) – A suicidal man started a fire on a bus in China that killed 47 people, state media said yesterday, a disaster that came just days after 120 people died in a fire at a poultry plant.

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – At least 25 people were killed and 70 wounded in clashes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday between protesters, eventually backed by government forces, and a militia operating with Defence Ministry approval, a doctor said.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping agreed on Friday to work together to try to resolve disputes over cyber security, a major irritant between the world’s top two economic powers.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – A suicidal man started a fire on a bus in China that killed 47 people, state media said on Saturday, a disaster that came just days after 120 people died in a fire at a poultry plant.

LONDON/NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Britain expressed regret yesterday for the abuse of Kenyans by colonial forces during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency and announced compensation for 5,228 survivors, but stopped short of apologising.

SAN JOSE, Calif.,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday staunchly defended the sweeping U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian police rounded up 300 people at a Muslim prayer room in Moscow yesterday after President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown on radical Islamists ahead of next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.

CHARLESTON, S.C.,  (Reuters) – Cyclone Andrea made its way up the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. employers stepped up hiring a bit in May in a show of economic resilience that suggests the Federal Reserve could begin to scale back its monetary stimulus later this year.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Thousands of Turks dug in yesterday for a weekend of anti-government demonstrations despite Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for an immediate end to the worst political unrest of his decade in power.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday called on Madagascar to restore democratic rule through free and fair elections, after the African nation’s government said it was postponing a presidential vote by a month to Aug.