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KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities yesterday scrambled to find the families of hundreds of men and boys freed from a purported school where some had been kept in chains, tortured and allegedly sexually abused.

LONDON (Reuters) – The government of London said it had referred Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Britain’s police watchdog for potential investigation over allegations of misconduct involving a U.S.

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors are investigating the wife of Eni’s chief executive as part of a wider probe into allegations of corruption involving the oil and gas major in Congo Republic, a prosecution document seen by Reuters showed.

RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it would issue fines for 19 offences related to public decency, such as immodest dress and public displays of affection, as the Muslim kingdom opens up to foreign tourists.

(Reuters) – Spider-Man, the popular web-slinging superhero currently played by actor Tom Holland, will headline a new movie in 2021 and appear in a future Marvel Studios film under a deal announced Friday by Sony Corp and Walt Disney Co.

(Reuters) – Among people with diabetes who develop high blood pressure, those who delay getting it under control may be more likely to have heart attacks and strokes than their counterparts who manage it promptly, a recent study suggests.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to set aside a plan that would make more people vulnerable to expedited deportation until a court can rule on the matter.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who are pursuing an impeachment inquiry against Presi-dent Donald Trump forged ahead with their probe yesterday, issuing a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents concerning contact with the Ukrainian government.

CHESEREX, Switzerland, (Reuters) – A collection of luxury cars confiscated by Geneva authorities from a son of the president of Equatorial Guinea is estimated to fetch 18.5 million Swiss francs ($18.67 million) this weekend, Bonhams auction house said yesterday.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed yesterday to set up an international fact-finding mission to document violations in Venezuela, including torture and thousands of summary executions.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – An oil spill has contaminated beaches and coastline across eight Brazilian states, the country’s environment agency said yesterday, although authorities are still stumped as to its origin.

SAN JUAN,  (Reuters) – Puerto Rico would reduce a major portion of its debt by more than 60% under a long-awaited restructuring proposal the bankrupt U.S.

KADUNA, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – More than 300 captives, most of them children and many in chains, have been rescued from a building in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, a police spokesman said yesterday.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As top designers wrapped up London Fashion Week and made their way to Paris to grab the world’s attention with their lavish creations, a group of artists in London were making their own fashion statement, in a bid to become invisible.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to set up an international fact-finding mission to document violations in Venezuela, including torture and thousands of summary executions.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A whistleblower report released yesterday said President Donald Trump not only abused his office in attempting to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S.

(Reuters) – The Trump administration said yesterday it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, the lowest number in the history of the modern refugee program.

NEW YORK,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – United States officials yesterday called on all nations to stop using Cuba’s medical missions, which send doctors around the world, saying that Cuba refused to pay the medical staff and held them against their will.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Former President Jacques Chirac, a political chameleon who dominated French politics for decades and strived to make France’s voice heard in Europe and beyond, died yesterday at the age of 86.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama said yesterday that an analysis of a vast oil spill along the country’s northeastern beaches showed the spilled crude did not originate in the country.