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LONDON,  (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco is the world’s most profitable oil company, Bloomberg reported on Friday, but its huge earnings and cash flows may still fail to justify its desired $2 trillion valuation.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – Korean Air Lines’ labour unions called for the youngest daughter of its chairman, a sister of the infamous ‘nut rage’ heiress, to step down from management after her alleged abusive behaviour against an advertising agency official caused public outrage.

PARIS (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned of a humanitarian disaster in the rebel-controlled Syrian city of Idlib, which could be a next target of the Syrian army.

YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar on Saturday repatriated the first Rohingya family from nearly 700,000 refugees who have fled to Bangladesh, after months of fraught talks with Dhaka and amid the United Nations’ warnings that the country is not ready for their return.

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Milos Forman, the Czech-born movie director who found fame in Hollywood with the Oscar-winning classics “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” has died at the age of 86.

(Reuters) – US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Saturday denied a media report that the special counsel investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has evidence Cohen visited Prague that year.

LIMA (Reuters) – Panama is considering building a passenger train to Costa Rica with China, a project that would require an initial investment of $5 billion, Panama’s President told Reuters in an interview, a sign of the Asian country’s growing interest in Latin America.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S., British and French forces pounded Syria with air strikes early today  in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A lawmaker from India’s ruling party was arrested yesterday in connection with the rape of a teenager, police said, after days of protests by activists accusing authorities of failing to investigate the case and other attacks.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Massachusetts’ top court yesterday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s bid to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil fuels play in climate change.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center said new ways of forecasting extreme weather events, including identifying storms before they fully develop, mark a “huge leap forward in the science of hurricanes”.

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court disqualified deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life yesterday amid an ongoing corruption trial and ahead of general elections due this year.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two London gang members who used a young woman to carry and sell drugs have been jailed for human trafficking in a landmark legal case, prosecutors said on Friday.

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court disqualified deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life today amid an ongoing corruption trial and ahead of general elections due this year.

WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his national security aides yesterday discussed U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Global energy giants Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil have asked U.S.

LIMA, (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said yesterday that Latin American economies benefited more from trade with the United States than with China and vowed Washington would not cede leadership in the region to “authoritarian countries.”

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s Roman Catholic Church called yesterday for a “drastic solution” that could include resignations, a day after Pope Francis acknowledged “grave mistakes” in handling a sexual abuse crisis and summoned its leaders to Rome.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will meet with Venezuelan opposition leaders in Lima, Peru on Friday, White House officials said, part of a U.S.

NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – Former supermodel Janice Dickinson testified on Thursday that Bill Cosby drugged and raped her at a Lake Tahoe home in 1982, a story similar to those of other alleged victims called as witnesses in the comedian’s sexual assault retrial.