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(Reuters) – CBS Corp said yesterday it retained two law firms for a full investigation into the allegations about Chairman and Chief Executive Leslie Moonves, CBS News and cultural issues in the company.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – A punch-up between two rival French rappers that descended into a mass brawl in the departure lounge of Paris’ Orly airport yesterday forced the brief closure of one terminal and caused flight delays.

HARARE, (Reuters) – European Union observers today listed several problems in Zimbabwe’s presidential and parliamentary election, including media bias, voter intimidation and mistrust in the electoral commission.

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said yetserday it had identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissension among voters ahead of November’s U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said yesterday that it had extended the deadline for investors to divest holdings in sanctioned Russian companies EN+ , GAZ Group and Rusal to Oct.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s three largest fuel distribution companies are under investigation for fixing prices at the pump, police said yesterday, reigniting debate over potential collusion among gas station owners in Latin America’s largest oil producer.

(Trinidad Express) A combined total of TT$20 million bail has been granted to the ten people who were arrested last Thursday and later charged with a series of money laundering and conspiracy-related charges involving $22.5 million in fraudulent payment of salaries at the San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporation (SJLRC) over a six-year period.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday blocked the planned release of 3-D printed gun blueprints hours before they were set to hit the internet, siding with states that sued to halt publication of designs to make weapons that security screening may not detect.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.,  (Reuters) – Prosecutors portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a tax cheat who used offshore accounts to hide tens of millions of dollars from political work in Ukraine, as the first trial from a probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election got off to a quick start yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday said it was revoking visas of Nicaraguan officials connected to a crackdown on protesters, while President Daniel Ortega said in Managua that he wanted to strengthen dialogue with opposition groups.

NEW DELHI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than four million people left off a draft list of citizens in northeast India yesterday have effectively been made stateless, campaigners said, likening them to the Rohingya minority driven out of Myanmar.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Counting began in Zimbabwe yesterday in the first election since the removal of former president Robert Mugabe, a watershed vote that could pull a pariah state back into the international fold and spark an economic revival.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, a senior U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to put the brakes on a lawsuit filed by young activists who have accused the U.S.

WELLINGTON/SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Just over a decade ago, deadly riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku’alofa, destroyed much of the small Pacific nation’s central business and government districts.

(Reuters) – CBS Corp’s board left Chief Executive Leslie Moonves in his post yesterday as it discussed sexual harassment claims against him and took steps to select an outside counsel to lead an independent investigation into the matter, the company said in a statement.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – International aid groups are failing to tackle “horror” sexual abuse and harassment in the charity sector, Britain’s aid watchdog said on Tuesday after the revelation of sexual misconduct by aid workers sparked global outrage this year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he would allow the federal government to shut down if Democrats do not fund his border wall and back immigration law changes, betting that maintaining a hard line will work in Republicans’ favor in November congressional elections.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Former president Robert Mugabe said he would vote for Zimbabwe’s opposition in today’s election, turning on one-time allies in the government ahead of the first vote since they ousted him in a de facto coup.

PHNOM PENH,  (Reuters) – Cambodia woke to another chapter of rule by strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday, a day after his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declared victory in a general election that rights groups said was neither free nor fair.