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(Reuters) – The United Nations’ top human rights official urged Angola’s government yesterday to reduce the huge disparities between rich and poor that have developed in the oil-rich country despite considerable progress since the end of a 27-year civil war in 2002.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A Mexican woman known as the “Queen of the Pacific” has pleaded guilty in a US federal court in Miami to a drug trafficking charge and admitted she provided money to a former Colombian drug lord to help him avoid arrest.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The two bombs that went off at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 264, were detonated with the kind of remote device used to control a toy car, US investigators told a House of Representatives panel yesterday.

DHAKA (Reuters) – The number of people killed by the collapse of a building in Bangladesh’s capital rose to 147 overnight and the death toll could climb further because many people are still trapped inside, Dhaka’s district police chief told Reuters today.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian lawmakers yesterday rejected a polarising bill to allow same-sex marriage in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation, as hundreds of people took to the streets to demonstrate for and against the measure.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has developed a hand-held device capable of identifying counterfeit or substandard malaria drugs and has signed a letter of intent with Corning Inc to manufacture the product.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – One of two men accused in an alleged al Qaeda-backed plan to derail a passenger train in Canada appeared in court today and disputed the authority of Canadian law to judge him, saying the criminal code was not a holy book.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian lawmakers today rejected a polarizing bill to allow same-sex marriage in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation, as hundreds of people took to the streets to demonstrate for and against the measure.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – An eight-storey block housing garment factories and a shopping centre collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said.

PROVIDENCE, RI (Reuters) – Katherine Russell has tried to stay out of sight in the five days since her husband, one of the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing, was killed in a shootout with police.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will build a second, larger aircraft carrier capable of carrying more fighter jets, the official Xinhua news service reported late yesterday, quoting a senior officer with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Federal Police have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of the international hacking group LulzSec, the collective that claimed responsibility for infiltrating and shutting down the CIA website.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Giant US agribusiness firm Cargill Inc confirmed that four workers died late Sunday at its grain delivery facility in Canarana, Brazil, when a silo containing soybeans collapsed.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court ruled today that a legal immigrant is not subject to mandatory deportation after being convicted of possessing a small amount of marijuana.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Prosecutors charged Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombings in an impromptu hearing yesterday in his hospital room, accusing him of crimes that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Thomson Reuters has dismissed Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor of Reuters.com

AMMAN (Reuters) – At least 109 people have been documented as killed and up to 400 more are likely to have died in an almost week-long offensive by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a rebellious Damascus suburb, opposition activists said.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday that he is no longer considering running for a shorter term of two years in 2014 and told lawmakers it was too early to consider an extension of presidential terms to six years.

MASINLOC, Philippines (Reuters) – For decades, fishermen along the northwestern Philippine coast treated the teeming fishing grounds of the Scarborough Shoal as their backyard, less than a day’s boat ride away.

MANAGUA (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police said yesterday they had arrested a US man on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list suspected of child pornography offences, and handed him over to US officials for extradition.