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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Senior American, Canadian and Mexican officials yesterday ended a week of talks without a deal to modernize NAFTA, agreeing instead to resume negotiations soon, ahead of a deadline next week issued by U.S

SOLAI, Kenya,  (Reuters) – A dam on a commercial flower farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley burst after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a “sea of water” that careered down a hillside and smashed into two villages, killing at least 47 people.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Malaysia’s seventh prime minister yesterday after a stunning election comeback, defeating the coalition that has ruled the nation for six decades since independence from Britain.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he had high hopes of “doing something very meaningful” to curtail North Korea’s nuclear ambitions at a summit in Singapore next month, after Pyongyang smoothed the way for talks by freeing three American prisoners.

BANJUL,  (Reuters) – Gambia is selling several planes and a fleet of luxury cars bought by former president Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce a mountain of crippling debt contracted during the authoritarian leader’s decades-long rule.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska has handed back three private jets he was leasing because U.S.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – An alliance of opposition parties spearheaded by Mahathir Mohamad won Malaysia’s general election, official results showed yesterday, setting the veteran strongman on course for a return to the prime minister’s office he occupied for 22 years.

JERSUSALEM/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Iranian forces in Syria shelled Israeli army outposts across the Syrian frontier overnight, Israel said, prompting one of the heaviest Israeli strikes in Syria since its civil war began in 2011.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – North Korea released three American prisoners and handed them over to U.S.

WASHINGTON/PARIS, (Reuters) – Dismayed European allies sought yesterday to salvage the Iran nuclear deal and preserve their Iranian trade after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the landmark accord and ordered sanctions reimposed on Tehran.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday pulled the United States out of an international nuclear deal with Iran, raising the risk of conflict in the Middle East, upsetting European allies and casting uncertainty over global oil supplies.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to return from North Korea with three American detainees, as well as details of an upcoming summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – The number of Salvadorans deported from the United States and Mexico fell 38 percent in the first three months of 2018, a U.N.

PAHOA, Hawaii, (Reuters) – The Kilauea volcano erupted again yesterday, spewing toxic gases out of two new vents and prompting authorities to call for an immediate evacuation of residents from a second neighbourhood on the Big Island.

 (SYDNEY),  (Reuters) – Australia’s High Court has ruled an 11th lawmaker must leave parliament after discovering she was a dual national, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday, the latest casualty in a widening citizenship crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said today he was reimposing economic sanctions on Iran and pulling the United States out of an international agreement aimed at stopping Tehran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – ConocoPhillips is trying to seize PDVSA’s oil assets at the 335,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Isla refinery in Curacao, which would expand its control over the Venezuelan state-run company’s barrels for export, according to sources close to the matter.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Over 200,000 Venezuelans have registered with Colombian authorities in the first few weeks of a count meant to assess how many undocumented migrants have fled to the Andean country, the Colombian government said yesterday.

(Reuters) – New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resign ed yesterday after allegations of physical abuse by four women were reported in an article in the New Yorker magazine.

WASHINGTON/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday announced sanctions on three Venezuelans and 20 companies with ties to socialist President Nicolas Maduro for narcotics trafficking, with U.S.