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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. regulators today gave the go-ahead to Exxon Mobil XOM.N’s

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Hundreds of helmeted police muscled their way into a central plaza of the University of California at Los Angeles early today to dismantle a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the previous night by pro-Israel supporters.

 (Reuters) – The death toll from the collapse of an expressway section in China’s Guangdong province that caused vehicles to tumble down a slope has risen to 48, with rescue work hampered by mudslides, state media reported today.

ASHDOD, Israel, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday he has still not seen a plan for Israel’s planned offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that would protect civilians, repeating that Washington could not support such an assault.

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Mounting tensions on U.S. campuses boiled over yesterday when pro-Israel supporters attacked an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA, hours after police arrested activists who occupied a building at Columbia University and cleared a tent city from its campus.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Public employees in Venezuela will receive $130 per month in bonuses, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday, amid demands by workers for salary increases and months ahead of presidential elections in which Maduro is seeking a third term.

(Reuters) – For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining, a reliable source of home-grown food will be a must.

(Reuters) – Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said in court yesterday, a week after the state’s highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters)  – Turkish riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse May Day demonstrators trying to reach Istanbul’s main Taksim Square today, and Turkish media said dozens of protesters were detained.President

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York City police officers entered the grounds of Columbia University last  night to arrest and disperse pro-Palestinian protesters who took over a campus building nearly 24 hours earlier and have occupied a tent camp at the Ivy League school for nearly two weeks.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – The leader of Canada’s main opposition party was ejected from the House of Commons yesterday after he called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “a wacko”, in the latest clash between two men set to fight an election next year.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution wrapped up early today without agreement on a proposal to consider sustainable plastic production limits.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday it viewed the reported role of the Indian intelligence service in two assassination plots in Canada and the United States as a serious matter.

RIYADH,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday urged Hamas to swiftly accept an Israeli proposal for a truce in the Gaza war and the release of Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian militant group.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Columbia University yesterday began suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who refused to dismantle a protest camp on the New York City campus after the Ivy League school declared a stalemate in talks seeking to end the polarizing demonstration.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday blasted a Cuban court’s decision to sentence a group of protesters to as many as 15 years in jail, calling the recent judgment “unconscionable” and “outrageous.”

MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – Jose Mujica, Uruguay’s former president and one of Latin America’s best-known leaders, announced a cancer diagnosis yetserday that doctors say will be challenging to treat.

(Reuters) – Four law enforcement officers were shot to death and four others were wounded yesterday in a gun battle that erupted while they were serving a fugitive arrest warrant at a house in Charlotte, North Carolina, authorities said.

OTTAWA, 9 (Reuters) – With the world still divided over how ambitious its first plastics treaty should be, countries are considering launching a series of smaller meetings before a hoped-for agreement in December.

LONDON  (Reuters) – Scotland’s leader Humza Yousaf resigned today, further opening the door to the UK opposition Labour Party regaining ground in its former Scottish heartlands during a national election expected to be held later this year.