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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A Guatemalan judge yesterday restarted the genocide trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt following a two-week suspension due to a fight over who should oversee the case.

BONN, Germany (Reuters) – A US-led plan to let all countries set their own goals for fighting climate change is gaining grudging support at UN talks, even though the current level of pledges is far too low to limit rising temperatures substantially.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Wednesday she has sent lawmakers another proposal to earmark all oil royalties collected by the state for public education after Congress shelved an earlier effort.

HOUSTON (Reuters) – A man sparked a panic at a busy Houston airport terminal yesterday when he pulled out a gun and shot at the ceiling, then either shot himself or was killed by a security officer who confronted him.

WASHINGTON/WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A trip to New Zealand will put America’s chief prosecutor on the same soil as a flashy internet mogul who is fighting extradition to the United States on charges he assisted massive piracy of copyrighted movies and music.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles challenged President Nicolas Maduro’s narrow election victory before the Supreme Court on Thursday, prolonging what appears to be a futile effort to overturn last month’s vote.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is rethinking its opposition to arming the Syrian rebels, U.S.

KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – More than 60 miners were killed this week in Sudan’s Darfur region when the gold mine they were working in collapsed, a police spokesman said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twenty of the world’s most troubled countries have made progress in efforts that range from reducing poverty to improving the education of girls and cutting down on the deaths of women in childbirth, the World Bank said yesterday.

FRIA, Guinea (Reuters) – Failure by Guinea’s politicians to reach agreement for a long-delayed legislative poll is stirring up tribal violence, jeopardising economic gains and raising fears that the military could once again step in.

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled a US development agency from his country yesterday, marking the latest confrontation between Washington and a bloc of left-wing governments in Latin America.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – International Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi is determined to resign because he is fed up with the deadlock over how to end the country’s two-year civil war and believes his role has been compromised, UN diplomats said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Settlers at Virginia’s Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the US Smithsonian Institution reported yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – William Roache, the world’s longest serving soap actor according to Guinness World Records, was charged yesterday with two counts of rape against an underage girl, British prosecutors said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands will work more closely with Britain and other European countries to fight tax evasion, British finance minister George Osborne said today.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Fistfights broke out in Venezuela’s parliament yesterday, injuring a number of legislators during an angry session linked to the South American nation’s bitter election dispute.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama signalled yesterday he is no rush to respond quickly to Syria’s apparent use of chemical weapons, taking a cautious approach to the country’s civil war, mirroring the views of the American public, most lawmakers and some US allies.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran’s reformists was detained in Tehran in March, possibly as part of a crackdown on dissidents ahead of the June presidential election, sources familiar with the case told Reuters yesterday.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – The Arizona Senate yesterday approved a measure to make gold and silver legal currency in the state, in a response to what backers said was a lack of confidence in the international monetary system.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish government ministers agreed draft legislation yesterday to allow for limited access to abortion where a woman’s life is in danger, including the threat of suicide, a proposal that has already divided the country’s ruling coalition.