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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A former British spy who compiled a dossier with allegations that Russia helped Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S.

  STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of “The Remains of the Day”, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for a run of “exquisite” novels that the award body said mixed Franz Kafka with Jane Austen.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S.

BARCELONA/MADRID,  (Reuters) – Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain after holding a banned referendum, pushing the European Union nation towards a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young democracy.

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – Tanzanian President John Magufuli has revealed he earns a salary of 9 million Tanzanian shillings ($4,000) per month, making him one of the lowest paid African leaders as he pursues a much-criticised policy of deep public spending cuts.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia is quietly boosting economic support for North Korea to try to stymie any U.S.-led

LAS VEGAS,  (Reuters) – The investigation into the motives of a Las Vegas retiree who killed 59 people in the bloodiest mass shooting in modern U.S.

(Reuters) – The death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria has more than doubled to 34, a spokesman for Governor Ricardo Rosello said on Tuesday.

(Reuters) – Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, in a disclosure that attorneys said sharply increased the legal exposure of its new owner, Verizon Communications Inc.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A divided U.S. Supreme Court yesterday struggled for the second time over how to resolve whether immigrants detained by the U.S.

LAS VEGAS,  (Reuters) – A retiree armed with multiple assault rifles strafed an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas from a high-rise hotel window on Sunday, slaughtering at least 59 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON,  (Reuters) – U.S. scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel prize for medicine yesterday for unravelling molecular mechanisms that control our internal body clocks.

WASHINGTON, – U.S. Supreme Court justices yesterday expressed skepticism toward part of an immigration law requiring the deportation of immigrants who commit violent felonies because of uncertainty over which crimes fit the bill and which do not.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Monarch Airlines collapsed on Monday, causing the cancellation of hundreds of thousands of holidays, after falling victim to intense competition for flights and a weaker pound.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Catalonia’s regional leader opened the door to a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain yesterday after voters defied a violent police crackdown and, according to regional officials, voted 90 percent in favour of breaking away.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Apologising for losing her Conservative Party’s majority at a June election, Prime Minister Theresa May responded to her critics yesterday by saying she had the right strategy to lead Britain and win a Brexit deal.

(Reuters) – Jagmeet Singh, an Ontario provincial lawmaker and practicing Sikh, was elected yesterday as leader of Canada’s left-leaning New Democrats, becoming the first non-white politician to head a major Canadian political party.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday dismissed the prospect of talks with North Korea as a waste of time a day after his own secretary of state said the United States was maintaining open lines of communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

  BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia today confiscating ballot boxes and voting papers to try to halt a banned referendum on a split from Spain as Madrid asserted its authority over the rebel region.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Saturday placed blame squarely on Puerto Ricans for the slow recovery from Hurricane Maria after critics complained that his administration’s response to the US territory’s plight was insufficient.