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The death toll from a fire at a residential building in Paris now stood at eight, said Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz, who added that investigators were favoring a "criminal" cause for the blaze. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2DUbhx0

Tens of thousands of Catholics and several thousand Muslims attended an unprecedented public celebration of Mass on Tuesday by Pope Francis, the first pontiff in history to visit the Arabian peninsula. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2TB4wpu

Iran dismissed on Tuesday European Union unease about its missile program and rights abuses, calling it "non-constructive", as Europe seeks to shield Iran from U.S. sanctions while containing its regional policies. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2DTxlrx

Football Federation Australia have ramped up their campaign to free jailed Bahraini refugee player Hakeem Al Araibi and pledged A$10,000 ($7,263) on Tuesday to kickstart a fundraising drive to help efforts to have him returned to Australia from Thailand. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2SwmmMM

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian and wounded another in the occupied West Bank on Monday, medical officials said. The army said the two had been carrying out a bomb attack. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2BlBraq

North Korea is working to ensure its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities cannot be destroyed by military strikes, U.N. monitors said ahead of a meeting between U.S. and North Korean officials to prepare a second denuclearization summit. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2WJX9Ob

Jurors in the U.S. trial of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, accused of running one of the world's most infamous drug cartels, ended their first day of deliberations in Brooklyn federal court on Monday without reaching a verdict. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Tv63gD

The United States and South Korea have reached an agreement "in principle" on sharing the cost of stationing U.S. troops in the Asian country, the State Department said on Monday. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2t1Y3rU

The U.S. special envoy for North Korea will meet with his North Korean counterpart on Wednesday in Pyongyang to prepare for a summit later this month between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the U.S. State Department said on Monday. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2t4OTuB

Expelled from the ruling leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and thwarted in trying to create his own party, Nayib Bukele forged his own path to victory as an outsider in El Salvador's presidential election. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2BkvtpY

Major European nations joined the United States on Monday in recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head of state, while members of a separate regional bloc kept up the pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2SrOCAe

Mexican officials on Monday presented a new plan to search for the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared during the country's drug war, creating a new forensic institute and working more closely with international groups and families. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2RBLk96

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday offered a way to break the deadlock over the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, calling for a "creative" compromise to allay concerns over the future of Irish border arrangements. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Tx2iaC