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(Reuters) – A federal appeals court yesterday ruled that the U.S.

BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – Military experts from Africa, the United Nations and Europe have drawn up preliminary plans to recapture northern Mali from al Qaeda-linked rebels, African officials said yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin fired Russia’s defence minister over corruption allegations yesterday, the latest twist in an unfolding saga of power, money and suspected adultery at the heart of the Kremlin.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney engaged in frantic get-out-the-vote efforts and made final pleas to voters in a sprint through battleground states that will determine who wins their agonizingly close White House race today.

RIVERSIDE, Calif (Reuters) – A psychologist testifying in the murder trial of a California boy who at age 10 killed his neo-Nazi father told a court yesterday that the young defendant suffered mental issues from a “long history” of physical, emotional and likely sexual abuse.

(Reuters) – The mother of a 2-year-old boy who died after falling into a pit of African wild dogs at the Pittsburgh Zoo stood him on a railing before he fell and was attacked by 11 dogs, police said yesterday.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party will this month unveil its new top leadership team, expected to again be an all-male cast of politicians whose instincts are to move cautiously on reform.

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered an investigation yesterday into the way claims of child abuse in Wales were examined after a victim said an unidentified Conser-vative Party figure had abused children in social care in the 1970s.

KABUANGA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo sought yesterday to prevent the killing of a Congolese soldier in a border clash from causing an escalation of already tense relations, officials said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman yesterday launched an investigation into post-storm price gouging after consumers flooded his office with complaints about jacked-up prices for everything from gasoline to hotel rooms.

LONDON (Reuters) – British celebrity Sharon Osbourne has had a double mastectomy after discovering she was carrying a gene that increased the risk of her developing breast cancer, she told Hello!

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A housing crisis loomed in New York City as victims of superstorm Sandy struggled without heat in near-freezing temperatures yesterday and nearly 1 million people in neighboring New Jersey remained without power.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party has launched an internal inquiry into allegations made by The New York Times that the family of Premier Wen Jiabao accumulated at least $2.7 billion in “hidden riches”, the South China Morning Post said today.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – An autopsy on late President Turgut Ozal, who led Turkey out of military rule in the 1980s and whose body was exhumed last month, will reveal he was poisoned, his son believes, calling for a full investigation of the “dark years” two decades ago when he died.

CONCORD, N.H.,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney sprinted to an unpredictable finish in the last 48 hours of a close White House race yesterday, trying to turn out supporters and woo undecided voters in a handful of toss-up states.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday sought to ease the fuel crunch that hit the Northeast after Hurricane Sandy, saying it would buy fuel, provide emergency responders with diesel from national reserves, and allow foreign tankers in the Gulf of Mexico to bring fuel to the region.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – The fragmented Syrian opposition will attempt once again this weekend to forge a common policy to gain international respect, obtain weapons and, most importantly, topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a formerly imprisoned dissident said.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations’ most senior human rights official urged China yesterday to address deep-rooted frustrations that have led to desperate forms of protest by Tibetans, including some 60 self-immolations since March 2011.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. employers stepped up hiring in October and a small increase in the jobless rate was due to more workers restarting their job hunts, a hopeful sign for a lackluster economy that has been a drag on President Barack Obama’s re-election bid.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – While superstorm Sandy sent most people running for shelter wherever they could find it, bird enthusiasts rushed outdoors as soon as possible to scan the skies for birds that usually don’t visit these parts.