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ISLAMABAD/KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court disqualified deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life today amid an ongoing corruption trial and ahead of general elections due this year.

WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his national security aides yesterday discussed U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Global energy giants Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil have asked U.S.

LIMA, (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said yesterday that Latin American economies benefited more from trade with the United States than with China and vowed Washington would not cede leadership in the region to “authoritarian countries.”

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s Roman Catholic Church called yesterday for a “drastic solution” that could include resignations, a day after Pope Francis acknowledged “grave mistakes” in handling a sexual abuse crisis and summoned its leaders to Rome.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will meet with Venezuelan opposition leaders in Lima, Peru on Friday, White House officials said, part of a U.S.

NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – Former supermodel Janice Dickinson testified on Thursday that Bill Cosby drugged and raped her at a Lake Tahoe home in 1982, a story similar to those of other alleged victims called as witnesses in the comedian’s sexual assault retrial.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An interview of U.S. President Donald Trump by special counsel Robert Mueller was less likely after this week’s FBI raids on Trump’s personal lawyer, two people familiar with the matter said yesterday.

NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – Former supermodel Janice Dickinson testified on Thursday that Bill Cosby drugged and raped her at a Lake Tahoe home in 1982, a story similar to those of other alleged victims called as witnesses in the comedian’s sexual assault retrial.

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia yesterday of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack, declaring that missiles “will be coming” and lambasting Moscow for standing by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – International financial groups took action on Wednesday to distance themselves from the shares, bonds and metal of Russian aluminium giant Rusal after the United States imposed sanctions on the company.

BANGUI,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of angry demonstrators yesterday laid the bodies of at least 16 people killed in clashes in Central African Republic’s capital in front of the mission headquarters of the United Nations, witnesses said.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – More than 250 people including Western Sahara refugees were killed when a military plane crashed near Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, state media said, with witnesses saying they saw a wing catch fire shortly after the plane took off.

(Reuters) – Missouri’s attorney general called on Governor Eric Greitens, a fellow Republican, to resign on Wednesday, saying the findings of a newly released state legislative report on a sex scandal that has embroiled Greitens are grounds for impeachment.

SANTIAGO/VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis acknowledged yesterday that he had made “grave mistakes” in the handling of a sexual abuse crisis in Chile, saying he felt shame and inviting victims he had once doubted to Rome to seek their forgiveness personally.

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg fielded 10 hours of questions over two days from nearly 100 U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek re-election and will leave his post at the start of 2019, dealing a blow to fellow Republicans and President Donald Trump ahead of fast-approaching congressional elections.

ALGIERS, (Reuters) – More than 250 people were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital today, state media said, in the country’s worst air disaster.

UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Russia and the United States tangled yesterday at the United Nations over the use of chemical weapons in Syria as Washington and its allies considered whether to strike at President Bashar al-Assad’s forces over a suspected poison gas attack last weekend.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The jailing of Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has hardened convictions in his Workers Party that he should be nominated to run for president, its senior members said, a plan that may leave the broader left fragmented as elections approach.