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LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s public broadcaster came under fire yesterday for compromising over the song “Ding Dong!

SEOUL – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea that it would be a “huge mistake” to test-launch a medium-range missile and said the United States would never accept the reclusive country as a nuclear power.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Three armed men set fire to the printing machine of a Tamil-language newspaper that is critical of the Sri Lankan government, forcing the paper to halt printing, the editor said today.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government said today it foiled a plot to destabilize Sunday’s presidential election, the latest in a flurry of claims that the opposition has derided as crude attempts to distract voters from the country’s problems.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Tax dodging causes the European Union to lose around 1 trillion euros of income each year, the president of the European Council said today as he announced that EU leaders would discuss the issue at a summit next month.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China – typically the first step in making a flu vaccine – government-backed researchers had already begun testing a “seed” strain of the virus made from the genetic code posted on the Internet.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Pentagon spy agency report concluded for the first time that North Korea likely has a nuclear bomb that can be launched on a missile, but U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An immigration bill being written in the Senate aims to wipe out nearly all illegal crossings along the southwestern border with Mexico while maintaining a 13-year timetable for existing illegal residents to win citizenship, sources said on Wednesday.

SEOUL/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – South Korea said yesterday there was a “very high” probability that North Korea, after weeks of threats of war, would test-launch a medium-range missile at any time as a show of strength.

MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – Uruguay’s Congress passed a bill yesterday to allow same-sex marriages, making it the second country in predominantly Roman Catholic Latin America to do so.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China formally charged former railways minister Liu Zhijun with corruption and abuse of power yesterday, state media said, the latest step in a graft investigation into the scandal-plagued railways.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An immigration bill being written in the Senate aims to wipe out nearly all illegal crossings along the southwestern border with Mexico while maintaining a 13-year timetable for existing illegal residents to win citizenship, sources said on Wednesday.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – An eloquent farewell to flamboyant former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau catapulted his son Justin Trudeau into the public eye 13 years ago, as he riveted Canadians with his emotional “Je t’aime, papa” goodbye.

SEOUL – North Korea intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into “thermonuclear war”.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck close to Iran’s only nuclear power station today, killing 32 people and injuring 850 as it destroyed homes and devastated two small villages, Iranian media reported.

VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia,  (Reuters) – A veteran of the 1990s Balkan wars shot dead 13 people, including his mother, son and a two-year-old child in a dawn rampage through a small village in central Serbia today, authorities said.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into a “merciless, sacred, retaliatory war”.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Admirers of Margaret Thatcher today mourned the “Iron Lady” who as Britain’s longest serving prime minister in over a century pitched free-market capitalism as the only medicine for her country’s crippled economy and the crumbling Soviet bloc.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced a man to 10 months in jail yesterday after he tweeted details of the trial of his father and 93 other people accused of plotting to seize power in the Gulf Arab state, an Emirati activist said.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s caretaker president may have cooperated with the planners of a doomed cocaine-and-weapons smuggling scheme meant to arm Colombian rebels, according to U.S.