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BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine central bank regulators entered Citibank Argentina’s headquarters yesterday, as the battle intensified between the government and a group of U.S.

Indian politicians who make bigoted comments should be punished by their parties, activists said on Thursday, after a government minister became the latest parliamentarian to be accused of racism and sexism.

GARISSA, Kenya, (Reuters) – The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 people at a university last week, the interior ministry said yesterday, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United States yesterday to seek a better deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program and said he would press American lawmakers not to give Tehran “a free path to the bomb.”

PARIS, (Reuters) – The second patient to receive an artificial heart made by French firm Carmat is leading a normal life including physical exercise, eight months after his transplant, the 69-year-old man told weekly Le Journal du Dimanche in an interview.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Furious 7” raced to the top of the domestic box office, picking up a massive $143.6 million in its opening weekend.

CHICAGO/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – With painstaking effort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug.

UNITED NATIONS/ADEN (Reuters) – Russia and the Red Cross appealed yesterday for a military pause in Yemen to allow urgent humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuation of civilians after 10 days of Saudi-led air strikes and fighting in which hundreds of people have died.

GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said yesterday that those behind an attack in which al Shabaab Islamist militants killed 148 people at a university were “deeply embedded” in Kenya, and called on Kenyan Muslims to help prevent radicalisation.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Almost all Shi’ite paramilitaries had left Tikrit yesterday after locals complained that some fighters had spent several days looting the Sunni city after helping retake it from Islamic State.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives are still running neck and neck with the main opposition Labour Party ahead of next month’s election, a poll yesterday showed, further indicating a major TV debate had failed to sway voters.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet on Friday to discuss the framework deal reached between world powers and Iran, after telling U.S.

GARISSA, Kenya, (Reuters) – Gunmen from the Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a university in Kenya and killed at least 147 people yesterday, in the worst attack on Kenyan soil since the U.S.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Iran and world powers reached a framework agreement yesterday on curbing Iran’s nuclear programme for at least a decade, a step towards a final pact that could end 12 years of brinkmanship, threats and confrontation.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Iran and world powers reached a framework on curbing Iran’s nuclear programme at marathon talks in Switzerland today that will allow further negotiations towards a final agreement.

GARISSA, Kenya, (Reuters) – Gunmen from the Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a university in Kenya and killed at least 147 people today, in the worst attack on Kenyan soil since the U.S.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Major powers and Iran stretched marathon talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme into a second day past their deadline, with diplomats saying prospects for a preliminary agreement were finely balanced between success and collapse in the coming hours.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Eleven former Atlanta public school educators were found guilty by a jury yesterday on charges of racketeering in one of the largest U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey was indicted on corruption charges, allegations that the high-ranking Democrat vowed to fight at a news conference last night.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – As Muhammadu Buhari sat in front of the TV watching his election victory unfold, Nigeria’s future president took care to be photographed beside a Muslim elder and a bishop, a choreographed statement of unity in a religiously mixed nation.