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VANCOUVER/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer faces U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court handed President Donald Trump a defeat yesterday when it refused to allow his order barring asylum for immigrants who enter the country illegally to take effect, while a court challenge proceeds.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Fourteen people including six hostages were killed early yesterday in a shootout between police and bank robbers attempting to blow up ATMs at two banks in a small town in northeastern Brazil, authorities said.

SAO PAULO/BRASÍLIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Michel Temer said yesterday he had reached an agreement with Roraima state Governor Suely Campos for a federal “intervention” in the state that borders Venezuela.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru wants about a dozen countries in the region to break diplomatic relations with Venezuela in the hope of pressuring President Nicolas Maduro and bringing down his government, Peru’s foreign minister said yesterday.

LUSAKA, (Reuters) – President Edgar Lungu can stand in presidential elections due in 2021, Zambia’s top court ruled on Friday, finding that he would not be breaching a constitutional two-term limit.

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump did not know about plans to arrest a top executive at Chinese telecoms giant Huawei in Canada, two U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell has concluded that a Nigerian oilfield sale where it suspects an executive took bribes was not linked to a separate court case in which he and Shell face corruption charges over a $1.1 billion offshore acquisition.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush was laid to rest at his presidential library in College Station, Texas, yesterday, following funeral services at his longtime church in Houston.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – A U.S. attempt to get the United Nations to condemn violence by Palestinian militant group Hamas for the first time failed yesterday because the draft resolution fell short of votes needed in the General Assembly.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – Palladium is more valuable than gold for the first time since 2002, with prices soaring by around 50 percent in less than four months to record levels — just as gold failed to capitalise on some seemingly bullish scenarios.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Leading global oil traders Vitol, Trafigura and Glencore paid more than $30 million in bribes to employees at state-owned Brazilian company Petrobras in a scheme that may still be going on, prosecutors said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday urged the Trump administration not to waive or remove sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska or two companies he controls.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver, where she is facing extradition to the United States, Canada’s Department of Justice said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush was hailed at his state funeral yesterday as a warrior-statesman of uncommon personal kindness who went from being a hero of American conflicts to representing a bygone era of civility in politics.

NEW DELHI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A wave of #MeToo revelations in India has created fear among sex pests and more respect for women in one of the world’s largest film industries, Bollywood star Farhan Akhtar said yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s government said yesterday it was easing new regulations on the Communist-run island’s fledgling private sector originally published in July after hearing concerns of entrepreneurs and experts.

(Reuters) – Hackers behind a massive breach at hotel group Marriott International Inc left clues suggesting they were working for a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation, according to sources familiar with the matter.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said yesterday President Donald Trump’s ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn provided “substantial” cooperation with its probe into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign team and Moscow.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – France’s prime minister yesterday suspended planned increases to fuel taxes for at least six months in response to weeks of sometimes violent protests, the first major U-turn by President Emmanuel Macron’s administration in 18 months in office.