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WASHINGTON/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday demanded Iran make sweeping changes — from dropping its nuclear program to pulling out of the Syrian civil war — or face severe economic sanctions as the Trump administration hardened its approach to Tehran.

CARACAS, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s leftist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term yesterday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a dictatorship.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese state media yesterday praised a significant dialling back of trade tension with the United States, saying China had stood its ground and the two countries had huge potential for win-win business cooperation.

SANTA FE, Texas,  (Reuters) – A teenaged boy who shot and killed eight students and two teachers in Texas had been spurned by one of his victims after making aggressive advances, her mother told the Los Angeles Times.

PAHOA, Hawaii,  (Reuters) – Hawaii residents coping with Kilauea’s volcanic eruption faced a potentially deadly new hazard on Sunday as authorities warned that lava flows reaching the Pacific Ocean could produce noxious clouds of acid fumes, steam and tiny, glass-like particles.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – In early 2015, as Malaysians were protesting over government plans to introduce a consumption tax, the then first lady was complaining about the rising costs of her hairdresser.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China has agreed to take measures to boost imports from the United States to reduce America’s trade deficit, the two countries said yesterday, although without mentioning the $200 billion target the White House had touted earlier.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysians have avidly watched the public humiliation of former leader Najib Razak and his wife, as police hunting evidence of graft loaded five trucks with luxury items, including dozens of Birkin handbags, some costing as much as a sportscar.

CANNES, France,  (Reuters) – Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or at Cannes yesterday for “Shoplifters”, a critically acclaimed family drama with unguessable plot twists.

SANTA FE, Texas, (Reuters) – The 17-year-old student who authorities said killed 10 people when he opened fire in an art class in his Houston-area high school appeared “weirdly nonemotional” on the morning after the rampage, one of his lawyers said on Saturday.

WINDSOR, England,  (Reuters) – Britian’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle sealed their marriage with a kiss after a dazzling ceremony before a global audience of millions in a medieval chapel packed with royalty and celebrities.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed soon after taking off from Havana in what appeared to be Cuba’s worst air disaster in nearly 30 years, and there were only three survivors, officials and state media said yesterday.

SANTA FE, Texas,  (Reuters) – A 17-year-old student armed with a shotgun and pistol opened fire at his Texas high school yesterday, killing nine students and a teacher, authorities said, in an attack with eerie echoes of the massacre at a Florida high school in February.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The head of a new commission formed to expose the truth behind human rights abuses committed during Colombia’s long civil war has said it will focus on society’s “most fragile” and look at why sexual violence against women was so prominent.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Ousted Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been summoned by the anti-graft agency amid a probe into troubled state fund 1MDB, sources said yesterday, after police launched pre-dawn raids on premises linked to Najib and confiscated jewellery, luxury handbags and cash.

 (Reuters) – At least eight people were killed today  in a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, a local sheriff said, with one person in custody and a second detained.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysia’s ousted former premier Najib Razak was “totally shattered” the night he lost the general election and called his jailed rival Anwar Ibrahim twice for advice on what he should do, Anwar said on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian police seized 284 boxes containing designer handbags and dozens of bags filled with cash and jewellery from a private residence linked to former prime minister Najib Razak last night.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – China is offering U.S. President Donald Trump a package of trade concessions and increased purchases of American goods aimed at cutting the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday barred immigration judges from a once-common practice of shelving deportation cases involving some immigrants with deep ties to the United States.