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(Reuters) – Senior Democratic lawmakers called on Wednesday for further investigation into a revelation that in 2016 Donald Trump’s then-presidential election campaign chairman gave polling data to a man U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump called on Congress yesterday to give him $5.7 billion this year to help build a wall on the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government suffered a defeat in parliament yesterday when lawmakers who oppose leaving the European Union without an accord won a vote that created a new obstacle to a no-deal Brexit.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has pulled out of a United Nations pact on dealing with rising migration, joining the United States and a growing number of countries in rejecting the agreement, a Brazilian diplomat with direct knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions that target a Venezuelan currency exchange network scheme that siphoned off billions of dollars to corrupt insiders of the Venezuelan government, the U.S.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – China yesterday rejected a Wall Street Journal report that said Chinese officials had offered to bail out scandal-ridden Malaysian state fund 1MDB and try to get the United States and other countries to drop their corruption probes into the fund.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Sears Holdings Corp agreed yesterday to consider a revised takeover bid from billionaire Chairman Edward Lampert, temporarily staving off a liquidation that would have spelled the end of the 126-year-old U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Aiming to bolster his case for a wall along the U.S.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Guatemala notified the United Nations it was terminating a U.N.-backed

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is visiting China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, only days after warning he may take an alternative path if the United States does not ease sanctions and pressure on his isolated country.

FORTALEZA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Criminal gangs on a rampage in northeast Brazil are posing an early security test for new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, highlighting the challenge he faces in quelling drug-related violence and halting a record wave of murders in the country.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Nongovernmental organizations working in Brazil will have their public funding rigidly controlled, President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday, as part of increased oversight of their activities by his new right-wing administration.

NANTUCKET, Mass., (Reuters) – Former “House of Cards” star Kevin Spacey stood impassively in a Nantucket courtroom yesterday before pleading not guilty to sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man at an island bar over two years ago, a charge his lawyer dismissed as “patently false.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim unexpectedly resigned yesterday, more than three years before his term ends in 2022, amid differences with the Trump administration over climate change and the need for more development resources.

MAPUTO,  (Reuters) – Mozambique has indicted 18 citizens for their involvement in fraud involving $2 billion in loans to state-owned companies, the attorney general’s office (AGO) said on Monday, in a scandal that has ensnared two major international banks.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Indian scientists have protested about claims made at a local science conference that rubbish the work of some of the world’s greatest physicists and suggest modern breakthroughs such as in-vitro fertilisation were in fact invented in ancient India.

LIBREVILLE,  (Reuters) – Gabon foiled an attempted military coup today, arresting several plotters just hours after they took over state radio in a bid to end 50 years of rule by President Ali Bongo’s family.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump pledged yesterday not to bend in his demand for a wall along the southern border with Mexico but said the barrier could be made of steel instead of concrete as a potential compromise with Democrats who refuse to fund it.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday that Britain would be in uncharted territory if her Brexit deal is rejected by parliament later this month, despite little sign that she has won over sceptical lawmakers.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated Egypt’s largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital yesterday, the eve of Coptic Christmas, in a message of tolerance in the predominantly Muslim country.