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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump faced growing pressure yesterday from political and diplomatic allies as well as U.S.

LUANDA,  (Reuters) – Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former president, has denied allegations of suspicious activity during her tenure as head of state oil firm Sonangol made by the current chair of the company, describing them as “slanderous”.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China on Monday unveiled its largest defence spending increase in three years, setting an 8.1 percent growth target this year, fuelling an ambitious military modernisation programme and making its neighbours nervous.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile’s outgoing President Michelle Bachelet said yesterday that she would send Congress legislation to replace the country’s dictator-era constitution with one to guarantee equal pay for men and women and the right to strike for workers.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – A Panamanian court yesterday evicted the Trump management team from the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City, in an apparent victory for the hotel’s majority owner, who has fought to regain control of the property.

NORRISTOWN, Pa.,  (Reuters) – A judge should allow 19 women to testify about alleged sexual abuse by comedian Bill Cosby to show a long-running pattern of “bad acts” to a jury at his retrial on charges of drugging and assaulting a former friend, a prosecutor said on Monday.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italian voters delivered a hung parliament on Sunday, flocking to anti-establishment and far-right parties in record numbers and casting the euro zone’s third-largest economy into political gridlock, initial results showed.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – A South Korean delegation led by senior security officials will leave for North Korea this afternoon, a presidential official said, as they aim to bring Pyongyang and Washington together for talks on the North’s nuclear programme.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China unveiled its largest rise in defence spending in three years on Monday, setting an 8.1 percent growth target compared to 2017, fuelling the country’s ambitious military modernisation programme amid rising Chinese security concerns.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – France’s foreign minister was in Iran today to reaffirm Europe’s commitment to a nuclear deal that opened the Iranian economy to investment, but also to echo concerns raised by U.S.

PRINCETON, NJ (Reuters) – Some 1.8 million customers remained without power throughout the eastern United States on Saturday, and communities on the New England coast faced more flooding a day after a powerful storm snapped trees, downed wires and killed at least seven people.

ROME (Reuters) – Italians go to the polls on Sunday in a vote that could bring political gridlock after an election campaign marked by anger over the listless economy, high unemployment and immigration.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will learn on Sunday whether the Social Democrat (SPD) party’s 464,000 members have voted in favour of a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, opening the way to a new government for Europe’s economic powerhouse.

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Slovak authorities released all seven people detained in connection with the murder of an investigative journalist, a police spokeswoman said on Saturday.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An official of India’s Punjab National Bank received gold and diamond jewellery from a billionaire jeweller accused of being involved in a $2 billion bank fraud, the federal police told a court on Saturday.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China wants to deepen friendship with Taiwan, the ruling Communist Party’s fourth-ranked leader said on Saturday, a day after state media warned China could go to war over Taiwan if a US bill promoting closer ties with the island becomes law.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone yesterday, saying trade wars were good and easy to win, after his plan to put tariffs on steel and aluminum imports triggered threats of retaliation from trading partners and a slide in stock markets.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it was making permanent its decision last year to slash staffing at its Havana embassy by around two-thirds because a spate of alleged health incidents among its diplomats remained unsolved.

PIRACICABA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazilian sugar mills looking to grow the world’s first variety of genetically modified (GM) sugarcane have planted an initial area of 400 hectares (988 acres), according to the research firm behind the project.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – A storm with winds topping 80 miles per hour (129 km per hour) lashed the U.S.