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WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg yesterday navigated through the first of two U.S.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The second seizure of a coca plantation in Honduras within a year shows drug gangs are seeking to cut costs and turn the small Central American state into a producer rather than a transit hub for U.S.-bound

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – White House lawyers are trying to dissuade U.S.

OXFORD,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Discrimination against women and girls is a more pressing global challenge than disparities in income between the rich and the poor, former U.S.

NORRISTOWN, Pa.,  (Reuters) – One of 50 women to accuse comedian Bill Cosby of sexual molestation told a jury on Tuesday he gave her spiked wine that kept her stupefied for four days in 1984, and she awoke to find him naked and attempting to force himself on her.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to cancel his first official trip to Latin America this week in order to focus on responding to a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, the White House said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday raided the offices and home of U.S.

WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday promised quick, forceful action in response to a deadly suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, appearing to suggest a potential military response.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – China has approached Vanuatu about establishing a permanent military presence on the tiny Pacific island, Australia’s Fairfax Media reported yesterday, a plan that would likely stoke regional tensions.

LUANDA,  (Reuters) – People involved in an alleged scheme to defraud Angola’s government laid out plans to secure as much as $1.5 billion, the finance ministry said yesterday, three times the amount previously mentioned by authorities.

(BBC) Shares in firms controlled by Oleg Deripaska have plunged after the US imposed sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and their companies on Friday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg swapped his trademark T-shirt and jeans for a dark suit and a purple tie on Monday as he met U.S.

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump warned yesterday there would be a “big price to pay” after aid groups said dozens of people were killed by poison gas in a besieged rebel-held town in Syria, an attack the opposition blamed on Syrian government forces.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – North Korea has told the United States for the first time that it is prepared to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets President Donald Trump, a U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is announcing it has named a top prosecutor to oversee the production of documents demanded by Congress and is producing 3,600 pages of additional records on Monday.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Six construction workers have been killed in an accident at Newmont’s Ahafo gold mine in Ghana, forcing the surface mine to suspend its operations, a local Newmont manager said yesterday.

BUDAPEST, Hungary,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a third straight term in power in Sunday elections after his anti-immigration campaign message secured a strong majority for his party in parliament, granting him two-thirds of seats based on preliminary results.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – A chemical attack on a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta has killed dozens of people, medical services reported, and Washington said the reports – if confirmed – would demand an immediate international response.

MUENSTER, Germany (Reuters) – A German man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant in the old city centre of Muenster in western Germany on Saturday, killing two of them before shooting himself dead, police and state officials said.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian rebel group accused government forces on Saturday of launching a deadly chemical attack on civilians in a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta, and a medical relief organisation said 35 people had been killed in chemical attacks on the area.