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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican senators warned President Donald Trump yesterday not to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and said the president must let federal investigators looking into Russian meddling in the U.S.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi retained his job and was also promoted to a state councillor yesterday, meaning he now has the country’s two top diplomat roles, in a vote of confidence for his strong defence of China’s interests.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – At each other’s throats for two decades, militants of Venezuela’s socialist state and opposition seldom agree on anything.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said today that Russia has been stockpiling the deadly nerve agent used to poison a Russian former double agent in England and has been investigating how such weapons can be used in assassinations.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired the FBI’s former No 2 official Andrew McCabe on Friday, prompting McCabe to say he was targeted for being a witness into whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia expelled 23 British diplomats on Saturday in a carefully calibrated retaliatory move against London, which has accused the Kremlin of orchestrating a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in southern England.

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) – The president of Mauritius, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, resigned from the ceremonial position on Saturday, her lawyer said, amid accusations of financial impropriety that triggered a dispute between her and the prime minister.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday expressed its “resolute opposition” after US President Donald Trump signed legislation that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa.

(Reuters) – Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, the New York Times and London’s Observer reported on Saturday.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Engineers and state and university officials met hours before a new pedestrian bridge collapsed in southern Florida, killing six people, but concluded a crack in the structure was not a safety concern, Florida International University said on Saturday.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – A western Venezuelan city began to issue its own currency this week to alleviate the hyper-inflationary country’s cash crisis.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Security expert Lieutenant Commander George Overton says that crime in Jamaica is far more sophisticated than previously thought and that the authorities have failed to accept the level of organised criminality at play.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – Former South African president Jacob Zuma is to face corruption charges over a $2.5 billion arms deal, prosecutors said, as a years-old scandal returned to haunt him within weeks of his fall from power.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A U.S. senator demanded documents yesterday  related to the construction of a new footbridge in Miami that collapsed a day earlier and killed at least six people, as federal and local investigators worked to determine the cause of the tragedy.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Five suspended senior executives of Tanzania’s national oil company were yesterday charged with corruption offences over alleged irregularities in the award of a survey contract to a U.S.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela imposed electricity rationing this week in six western states, as the crisis-hit country’s creaky power grid suffered from a drought that has reduced water levels in key reservoirs needed to run hydroelectric power generators.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is using his main election rival Henri Falcon as an “instrument” to divide the country’s opposition ahead of a May 20 vote, the head of the Organisation of American States (OAS) said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The president of the Academy of Motion Pictures, the body that hands out the Oscars, is being investigated for sexual misconduct, Hollywood trade publications reported yesterday.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Bollywood singer Daler Mehndi was handed a two-year prison sentence yesterday in a case over smuggling people into the United States while on tour there 20 years ago.