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SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia, the United States, India and Japan are talking about establishing a joint regional infrastructure scheme as an alternative to China’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative in an attempt to counter Beijing’s spreading influence, the Australian Financial Review reported yesterday, citing a senior U.S.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – An EU decision to curb palm oil imports was the last thing Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak needed ahead of a coming election, with rural voters already aggrieved over financial scandals at state-owned palm oil agency Felda.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – An Oregon woman has become the first person worldwide known to have had an eye infestation by a tiny worm species previously seen only in cattle that is spread by flies that feed on eyeball lubrication, U.S.

ISLAMABAD, Reuters) – Pakistani cricketer-turned-politican Imran Khan has tied the knot for the third time, his party said on Sunday, confirming his marriage to a woman local media call a “faith healer”.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Students at British universities could be charged variable tuition rates that reflect the economic value of their degrees, Minister for Education Damian Hinds said yesterday, before the launch of a review of higher education funding.

PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) – A teenager accused of shooting to death 17 people at a Florida high school was investigated by police and state officials as far back as 2016 after slashing his arm in a social media video, and saying he wanted to buy a gun, but authorities determined he was receiving sufficient support, a newspaper said on Saturday.

SANTIAGO JAMILTEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) – At least 13 people on the ground, including three children, were killed when a Mexican military helicopter carrying top officials surveying damage from an earthquake crashed in a small town in the southern state of Oaxaca, authorities said on Saturday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis renewed a commission on clergy sexual abuse on Saturday, confirming a US cardinal as its head, as the Vatican promised to give victims a greater say in its work.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s federal police detained two employees of Punjab National Bank, the state-run lender that says it has been the victim of a $1.77 billion fraud, in the first arrests in a fast-widening probe into the country’s biggest-ever bank scam.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Student survivors of a mass shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school called for gun restrictions on Saturday during an angry and sombre rally, but attendees at a nearby gun show said firearms could not be blamed for the massacre.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Russian propaganda arm oversaw a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper in the 2016 U.S.

PARKLAND, Fla., (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Friday it had failed to act on a tip warning that the man now accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school possessed a gun, the desire to kill and the potential to commit a school shooting.

ADDIS ABABA,  (Reuters) – Ethiopia announced a state of emergency yesterday, the day after the prime minister’s resignation, as pressure mounted on the country’s ruling coalition.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s hardline opposition party Popular Will, whose leader Leopoldo Lopez would be a leading presidential contender if he were not under house arrest, announced on Friday it would boycott April’s presidential vote, calling it a “fraud.”

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South Africa will face “tough decisions” as it works to repair its economy after years of stagnation, new President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a sober address on Friday that sought to draw a line under the turbulent rule of his predecessor Jacob Zuma.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The song is called “God’s Plan” and Canadian rapper Drake dropped a music video to match yesterday in which he gave away almost $1 million in cash to people in Miami.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Russian Internet agency oversaw a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper in the 2016 U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s foreign minister will travel to Jamaica, Grenada and Saint Lucia in March, a Mexican official said yesterday, as part of efforts to erode Venezuela’s oil-based influence in the Caribbean.

0CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – Cyril Ramaphosa was elected as South Africa’s president in a parliamentary vote yesterday and pledged to tackle endemic corruption after scandal-ridden Jacob Zuma resigned on orders from the ruling African National Congress.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Punjab National Bank, India’s second-largest state-run lender, sought to soothe investors yesterday after the discovery of a $1.77 billion scam at a single branch sent its shares plunging and raised fears about the scale of fraud in the sector.