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 (Reuters) – Indian actor Irrfan Khan, whose roles in Hollywood films such as “Slumdog Millionaire”, “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Life of Pi” have brought him fame, has been diagnosed with a tumour and is travelling overseas for treatment, he said on Friday.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – Former South African president Jacob Zuma was charged with corruption today over a $2.5 billion state arms deal, a stunning judicial ruling on a continent where political ‘Big Men’ rarely face their day in court.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets of Brazil’s largest cities last night to protest the execution-style murder of a popular Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman, an outspoken critic of police killings of poor residents.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States slapped sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for U.S.

BRATISLAVA,  (Reuters) – Long-serving Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico resigned yesterday, passing his government to a deputy after the murder of an investigative journalist provoked the country’s biggest protests since the fall of communism.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – France today agreed with Britain that Russia was behind a nerve agent attack on an ex-spy in England, President Emmanuel Macron’s office said in a statement, and said a united European and transatlantic response was needed.

 PARKLAND, Fla.,  (Reuters) – U.S. students spilled out of classrooms by the tens of thousands on Wednesday, chanting slogans like “No more silence” and “We want change” as part of a coast-to-coast protest over gun violence prompted by last month’s massacre at a Florida high school.

CANONSBURG, Pa./WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republicans sounded the alarm yesterday after Democrats claimed victory in a Pennsylvania congressional election seen as a referendum on U.S.

 (Reuters) – Bankrupt Toys ‘R’ Us Inc is preparing to sell or close all 885 stores in its U.S.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm at the centre of the “Panama Papers” scandal, said yesterday it was shutting down due to the economic and reputational damage inflicted by its role in the global tax evasion debacle.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain is to kick out 23 Russian diplomats, the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, over a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in England that Prime Minister Theresa May blamed on Moscow, an assessment backed by the United States.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats in response to a nerve toxin attack on a Russian ex-spy in southern England, Prime Minister Theresa May said today, describing the attack as an unlawful use of force by Russia against the United Kingdom.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson yesterday after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with loyalist CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese imports and will target the technology and telecommunications sectors, two people who had discussed the issue with the Trump administration said on Tuesday.

(BBC) Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, his family has said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday it was “highly likely” that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning in England of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter using a military-grade nerve agent.

WASHINGTON/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday it fully expects an unprecedented meeting between U.S.

CHISINAU, (Reuters) – Moldova’s justice minister resigned yesterday after a leaked telephone conversation appeared to show him chatting in 2015 with a man later convicted of what is known in the country as the “theft of the century”.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said yesterday about 511,000 people had been killed in the Syrian war since it began seven years ago.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said today about 511,000 people had been killed in the Syrian war since it began seven years ago.