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ATLANTA (Reuters) – Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern US metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert to paper.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela arrested five state police officials for their alleged role in a riot and fire that killed 68 people in an overcrowded police station cell, the country’s public prosecutor said on Saturday.

(Reuters) – Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday dismissed Exxon Mobil Corp’s lawsuit seeking to stop New York and Massachusetts from probing whether the oil and gas company covered up its knowledge about climate change and lied to investors and the public about it.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump accused Amazon.com Inc yesterday of not paying enough tax, taking advantage of the U.S.

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc shares fell as much as 7.4 percent on Wednesday, wiping about $53.6 billion from its market value after U.S.

BEIJING/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – China said yesterday North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to denuclearise the Korean peninsula during an historic meeting in Beijing with President Xi Jinping, who promised China would uphold its friendship with its isolated neighbour.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York, California and other states vowed yesterday to stop the U.S.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – Greenland’s state-owned Kalaallit Airports has shortlisted a Chinese construction company to help expand three airports despite concerns in the Danish government that Chinese involvement could upset its ally, the United States.

CHENNAI, India,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Punitive action should be taken against village councils that impose punishments including murder on inter-caste marriages between consenting adults, India’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A retired U.S. Supreme Court justice yesterday called for the repeal of the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg plans to testify before U.S.

(Reuters) – A little-known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Labourer Brandon Pooran has been charged with the March 15 murder of Defence Force soldier Sergeant Ken Palmer.

(Trinidad Express) A man was gunned down on the streets of Never Dirty, Morvant, on Monday night.

LONDON/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it would expel 60 Russian diplomats, joining governments across Europe in punishing the Kremlin for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain that they have blamed on Moscow.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has visited China, Bloomberg reported yesterday citing three unnamed sources, in what would be his first known overseas trip since taking power in 2011 and ahead of a potential summit with U.S.

LUANDA,  (Reuters) – The son of Angola’s ex-president, José Filomeno dos Santos, has been charged with fraud relating to a $500 million transaction out of an account belonging to the central bank, the prosecutor general’s office said on Monday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A Brazilian appeals court rejected yesterday final procedural objections raised by lawyers of former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva against his conviction for corruption, raising the possibility that he will soon be jailed.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House yesterday cast aspersions on adult-film star Stormy Daniels over a much-watched TV interview in which she said she was threatened with violence to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006.