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CHICAGO/KANSAS CITY  (Reuters) – The Oregon field in which a farmer found sprouts of unauthorized genetically modified wheat was never used to study altered varieties, a lawyer for the grower said on Tuesday.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – France said yesterday it had performed tests that proved President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had used nerve gas in Syria’s civil war, a “red line” that the United States and other countries have repeatedly said would demand a response.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A global network of private companies were blacklisted by the United States yesterday for providing revenue to the Iranian government’s leadership and helping it evade the pinch from international sanctions on Tehran’s nuclear program, the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Republican U.S. senator was under fire yesterday after blaming youthful hormones, at least in part, for sexual assaults in the military.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., (Reuters) – No subject is taboo for country singer LeAnn Rimes as she digs deep into her soul on her new album “Spitfire.”

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A Venezuelan state is testing a system to limit purchases of food and other staples, local media reported today, in a move that officials defended as necessary to stop contraband trade but opposition critics slammed as Cuban-style rationing.

PARIS/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Switzerland’s permanent representative at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, Stefan Flueckiger, has been arrested for drunk-driving by French police after a high-speed car chase, police sources said on Tuesday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Anti-government protesters responsible for Turkey’s worst riots in years are “arm-in-arm with terrorism”, Prime Minister Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said, in a defiant response to three days of unrest in dozens of cities across the country.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US State Department offered rewards yesterday of $3 million to $7 million for information leading to the location of “leaders of terrorist organizations” in West Africa, the first time it has used the rewards programme in the region.

SAN JOSE (Reuters) – China lent Central American ally Costa Rica nearly $400 million yesterday during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to a region where Beijing has traditionally vied with rival Taiwan for influence.

CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced five foreigners to death by hanging yesterday for smuggling drugs, an official said.

PARIS (Reuters) – The spokeswoman for Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election campaign last year won a primary election yesterday to become the conservative UMP party’s candidate for the 2014 Paris mayoral race.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will go back to the scene of her coronation today to mark a reign that has weathered six decades of social transformation and the end of her country’s global empire.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – China lent Central American ally Costa Rica nearly $400 million on Monday during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to a region where Beijing has traditionally vied with rival Taiwan for influence.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – A blaze at a locked poultry slaughterhouse in northeast China killed at least 119 people today with several still unaccounted for, officials and state media said, triggering online outrage in a country with a grim record on fire safety.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Turkey’s four biggest cities today and clashed with riot police firing tear gas on the third day of the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years.

(Reuters) – Three storm chasers were among 13 people killed by tornadoes that rampaged through central Oklahoma on Friday, underscoring the high risk of tracking tornadoes and forcing the media to rethink how they cover deadly twisters.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Three members of Britain’s upper house of parliament were suspended from their parties yesterday after media sting operations caught them apparently offering to use their influence for personal gain.

SAN FRANCISCO DE YARE, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles says President Nicolas Maduro’s government will “cave in” under the pressure of growing economic troubles, in-fighting and a belief by many Venezuelans that it stole the April election.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made a defiant call for an end to the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years yesterday as authorities arrested almost a thousand people in protests across the country.