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OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian police have arrested and charged two 15-year-old girls for allegedly running a prostitution ring in Ottawa that offered girls aged 13 to 17 to adult clients.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Sade fans have had to learn to be very patient.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States extended exemptions from its tough, new sanctions on Iran’s oil trade to seven more economies yesterday, leaving China the last remaining major importer exposed to possible penalties at the end of the month.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it was withdrawing its team of negotiators from Pakistan without securing a long-sought deal on supply routes for the war in Afghanistan, publicly exposing a diplomatic stalemate and deeply strained relations that appear at risk of deteriorating further.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto is entering the last three weeks of the election race in a favorable position after navigating a second televised debate without major mishap, pollsters said yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez led his biggest rally since he was diagnosed with cancer a year ago, seeking to stage a show of strength yesterday as he heads into a re-election campaign to extend his 13 years of socialist rule.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday appealed a judge’s decision to allow to move forward a civil lawsuit brought against him by a hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault.

(Reuters) British Prime Minister David Cameron left his eight-year-old daughter Nancy at this pub on Sunday following a mix-up with his wife.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans flooded downtown Caracas yesterday to support opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in the biggest rally to date of his campaign to unseat cancer-stricken socialist President Hugo Chavez.

ISLAMABAD/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, (Reuters) – When al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi arrived in northwest Pakistan several years ago, he commanded so much respect that even some of the world’s most dangerous militants held him in awe.

SITTWE, Myanmar, (Reuters) – Northwest Myanmar was tense yesterday after sectarian violence engulfed its largest city at the weekend, with Reuters witnessing rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torching houses and police firing into the air to disperse crowds.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Pratibha Patil wakes to the sound of trumpets and horse-backed riders in the cobbled courtyard of her magnificent palace in New Delhi, she walks on a treadmill, prays at her private temple and prepares for a long, hollow day.

MAIDUGURI/JOS, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – Islamist militants attacked two churches in Nigeria yesterday, spraying the congregation of one with bullets, killing at least one person, and blowing up a car in a suicide bombing at the other, wounding 41, witnesses and police said.

(Reuters) – A former Indian army officer wanted for murder in India apparently shot and killed his wife and two of his children at his California home before committing suicide, police said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge sentenced Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke yesterday to 23 years in prison, ending a long struggle by U.S.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The smell of burnt flesh hung in the air and body parts lay scattered around the deserted Syrian hamlet of Mazraat al-Qubeir yesterday, U.N.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran failed at talks yesterday to unblock a probe into suspected atom bomb research by the Islamic state, a setback dimming any chances for success in higher-level negotiations between Tehran and major powers later this month.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron and his finance minister George Osborne will face accusations they bent government policy to support media baron Rupert Murdoch when they appear at a high-profile inquiry into press ethics next week.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Outgoing World Bank chief Robert Zoellick yesterday called for a new partnership in the Americas, criticizing the United States for insufficient leadership on trade and saying that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s political influence is waning.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine was honored with the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award on T hursday night for roles in movies including “Terms of Endearment,” “Steel Magnolias” and “Postcards from the Edge.”