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The United Nations on Sept. 10 said peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Yemen are set to resume next week in the region and urged all parties to participate "in good faith." 

Standard & Poor's cut Brazil's sovereign credit rating to junk on Sept.9, citing the struggle by President Dilma Rousseff's government to master growing debt and political turmoil.

A Guatemalan court indicted former president Otto Perez on corruption charges on Sept.8, days after he resigned over a customs fraud scandal that has stoked outrage in the Central American country.
    
Judge Miguel Angel Galvez granted prosecutors' request to try Perez on charges of customs fraud, racketeering and bribery, and remanded the fallen conservative leader in custody.

Guatemala's Otto Perez resigned as president and was jailed on Sept. 3 while a judge weighs charging him in a corruption scandal that gutted his government and plunged the country into a political crisis days before a presidential election. 

President Barack Obama on Monday will officially restore Denali as the name of North America's tallest mountain, siding with the state of Alaska in ending a 40-year battle over what to call a peak that has been known as Mount McKinley. 

The United States will be isolated on the world stage and its influence diminished if Congress rejects the Iran nuclear deal, the US ambassador to the United Nations has warned.
 

With an election calendar now drawn up by Turkey?s top election authority, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has identified significant dates for its campaign ahead of snap elections scheduled for Nov. 1, with one of them pointing to gathering with their founding leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, under parliament?s roof.

The $400-million, eight-story Museum of the Bible is set to open near the National Mall in the heart of the US capital in 2017 The Museum of the Bible being built in Washington will feature ancient artifacts and treasures from the Holy Land under a new deal that ensures Israel's leading archaeological organization will have an outpost in the U.S. capital.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has voiced his willingness to strengthen his hand in the run-up to upcoming new elections by getting re-elected as the leader of his Justice and Development Party (AKP), underlining that this would be "ethically more appropriate."

Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's resignation Aug. 16, blaming her and the leftist Workers' Party for runaway corruption and looming recession in Latin America's biggest country.