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BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Fresh misconduct allegations brought by Tokyo prosecutors against ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn centre on the use of company funds to pay a Saudi businessman who is believed to have helped him out of financial difficulties, two company sources with knowledge of the matter said.

AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An 8-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy died early on Christmas Day after being detained by U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States has welcomed Chinese concessions since the two declared a trade war truce in early December, but trade experts and people familiar with negotiations say Beijing needs to do far more to meet U.S.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistan court yesterday  jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for seven years on graft charges that he says were politically motivated.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Foreign powers, including Russia, China and Iran, sought to influence voters in the U.S.

(Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been charged in connection with an allegation that he sexually abused an 18-year-old boy at a Nantucket, Massachusetts, bar more than two years ago, the local district attorney said yesterday.

TORONTO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a bid to stop “biopiracy”, researchers are building a giant database to catalog genetic material from the world’s largest rainforest.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistan court today  jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for seven years on graft charges that he says were politically motivated.

PANDEGLANG, Indonesia,  (Reuters) – A tsunami killed at least 222 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide believed to have been caused by the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano, officials said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday said he was replacing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis two months earlier than had been expected, a move officials said was driven by Trump’s anger at Mattis’ resignation letter and its rebuke of his foreign policy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary called top U.S.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban lawmakers yesterday unanimously approved a revised draft of a new constitution that retains the island’s one-party socialist system but reflects its socio-economic opening since the fall of the Soviet Union.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A partial U.S. government shutdown was almost certain to drag through the Christmas holiday after the Senate adjourned yesterday without breaking an impasse over President Donald Trump’s demand for more funds for a border wall.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – At least 20 people died in Indonesia on the islands of Java and Sumatra when a tsunami struck areas around the Sunda Strait late yesterday following a sub-sea landslide caused by a volcano, the government’s Disaster Mitigation Agency said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A top U.S. envoy leading a global coalition fighting Islamic State has quit over President Donald Trump’s decision this week to pull U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government was to begin a partial shutdown at midnight last night after Republican senators failed to muster the votes needed to approve $5 billion that President Donald Trump wants for a border wall fiercely opposed by Democrats.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Supreme Court yesterday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump by refusing to allow his administration to implement new rules prohibiting asylum for people who cross the U.S.

LONDON, England, (Reuters) – London’s Gatwick Airport reopened yesterday after a mystery saboteur wrought 36 hours of travel chaos for more than 100,000 Christmas travellers by using drones to play cat-and-mouse with police snipers and the army.

WASHINGTON/LONDON,  (Reuters) – The United States and three allies chastised China for economic espionage yesterday, ratcheting up tensions as U.S.