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Amnesty says Trump's 'poisonous' rhetoric makes world a darker place

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses at the Dr. Ben Carson exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, U.S., February 21, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

By Nathalie Kantaris Diaz

22/02/2017

PARIS (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump's "poisonous" rhetoric on his way to winning the White House led a global trend towards increasingly divisive politics in 2016 that had made the world a "darker" place.

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Ecuador presidential election goes to runoff between leftist, ex-banker

Guillermo Lasso, presidential candidate from the CREO party, greets supporters outside the electoral council headquarters, in Quito, Ecuador. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Henry Romero

By Alexandra Ulmer and Alexandra Valencia

22/02/2017

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's presidential election will go to an April runoff between leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno and ex-banker Guillermo Lasso, the electoral body said on Tuesday, after a nail-biter first round over the weekend.

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South African court blocks government's ICC withdrawal bid

The entrance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 3, 2011. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

By James Macharia

22/02/2017

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's High Court blocked the government's attempt to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday, the latest blow to scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma from an assertive post-apartheid judicial system.

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Britain pledges extra $250 million to fight famine in South Sudan, Somalia

Rukia Nur feeds her child outside her makeshift dwelling after fleeing famine in the Marka Lower Shebbele regions to the capital Mogadishu, September 20, 2014. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Feisal Omar

22/02/2017

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will provide additional aid money to South Sudan, where famine has been declared in parts of the country, and to Somalia, where there is a credible risk of famine, the government said on Wednesday.

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Groundhog day in Geneva: old questions haunt Syria talks

Men run at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria, February 19, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

By Tom Miles and John Irish

22/02/2017

GENEVA (Reuters) - When Syria peace talks restart in Geneva on Thursday after 10 months in the deep-freeze, familiar disagreements are likely to resurface, despite massive changes in the military and political context.

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Spokesman for Turkey's Erdogan calls on Israel to halt 'illegal settlements'

A general view picture shows houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the occupied West Bank, February 15, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Ammar Awad

22/02/2017

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Wednesday called on the Israeli government to halt what it called "illegal settlement policies" on Palestinian land.

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Egypt's Sisi, Jordan's Abdullah reaffirm support for two-state solution

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sits before a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (unseen) at the presidential palace in Cairo, August 2, 2015. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski

22/02/2017

CAIRO (Reuters) - The leaders of Egypt and Jordan reaffirmed their continued support on Tuesday for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested abandoning it.

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Dead migrants wash up on Libyan beach from boat with no engine

African migrant sit at a detention camp in Tripoli, Libya, February 21, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny

By Aidan Lewis

21/02/2017

TUNIS (Reuters) - The bodies of at least 74 migrants have been found washed up on the shore in western Libya after the engine of their inflatable boat was stolen, coastguard and aid officials said on Tuesday.

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Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State set to storm airport, clear way to western Mosul

An Iraqi security forces' member directs a tank in the liberated part of Albu Saif village south of Mosul, Iraq February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

An Iraqi security forces' member directs a tank in the liberated part of Albu Saif village south of Mosul, Iraq, February 21, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

By Isabel Coles and Maher Chmaytelli

21/02/2017

SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq, BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces closing in on the Islamic State-held western half of Mosul prepared on Tuesday to storm the airport and a nearby military base on its southern outskirts to create a bridgehead for a thrust into the city.

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South Sudan's Kiir promises safe access to starving civilians as famine bites

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir attends the 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Government of the African Union in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 30, 2017. PHOTO BY REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

By Denis Dumo

21/02/2017

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Tuesday promised aid agencies safe access to hunger-stricken civilians, a day after his government declared a famine in parts of the war-ravaged country.

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