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PARIS,  (Reuters) – French telecoms group Orange and its former CEO Didier Lombard were guilty of “moral harassment” that prompted a spate of suicides during a restructuring at the company in the late 2000s, a Paris court ruled today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats yesterday pressed the Republican-controlled Senate to call Donald Trump’s top lieutenants to testify in its trial of the impeached president, as they sought to focus attention on the trial ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

(Reuters) – The magazine founded by the late Reverend Billy Graham that is influential with conservative evangelical Christians in the United States called yesterday for President Donald Trump to be removed from office.

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – Nigeria’s former attorney general was detained by the country’s financial crimes agency upon his return home yesterday, the commission said in a statement, as part of an investigation into one of the oil industry’s biggest suspected corruption scandals.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Seven Democratic U.S. presidential contenders squared off on the debate stage in Los Angeles yesterday, offering viewers their different takes on issues including taxes and trade.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate, rushing to meet a looming deadline, approved and sent to President Donald Trump a $1.4 trillion package of fiscal 2020 spending bills that would end prospects of government shutdowns at week’s end when temporary funding expires.

CONAKRY,  (Reuters) – Guinea President Alpha Conde said yesterday that he would seek a public referendum on a new constitution, a move his opponents fear he will use as a pretext to hang onto power beyond the end of his constitutional mandate.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats today pressed the Republican-controlled Senate to call Donald Trump’s top lieutenants to testify in its trial of the impeached president, as they sought to focus attention on the trial ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

 (Reuters) – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) removed the fictional country of Wakanda from an online list of nations that have free trade agreements with the United States on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump yesterday became the third U.S. president to be impeached as the House of Representatives formally charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in a historic step that will inflame partisan tensions across a deeply divided America.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled yesterday that a component of the Obamacare law is unconstitutional, but dodged a major ruling by stopping short of declaring that the rest of the landmark 2010 healthcare statute must also be struck down.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil federal prosecutors today said shipping companies Maersk , Tide Maritime and Ferchem were targets in the latest phase of a wide-ranging corruption probe for alleged graft involving shipping contracts with state-run oil firm Petrobras.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – On the eve of his expected impeachment in the U.S.

GENEVA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Businesses that fail to look beyond the bottom line will not survive as consumer pressure also to do good mounts, said the billionaire behind top-selling U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Angola has recovered more than $5 billion stolen from state coffers so far this year, both at home and from abroad, Justice Minister Francisco Queiroz said on Monday, amid a two-year crackdown on corruption.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus has gifted books to high school students across Sweden to try to stem the flow of fake news.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani court sentenced former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia yesterday on treason charges stemming from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia plans to build a grain hub at the Syrian port of Tartus in order to boost its presence on Middle East markets, the Interfax news agency cited Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov as saying yesterday.

(Reuters) – Costa Rica’s president yesterday requested urgent international aid for refugees in the small Central American nation, which has taken in tens of thousands of people from Nicaragua after a political crisis triggered months of violent protests.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-run congress yesterday approved a measure allowing lawmakers to vote on legislation without being present, a response to a government crackdown that has left dozens of legislators in hiding or in exile.