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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department’s third-ranking official, Tom Shannon, said yesterday he was stepping down, the latest senior career diplomat to exit since President Donald Trump took office a year ago.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House was working yesterday to clear the release of a Republican memo alleging bias within the FBI and Justice Department against President Donald Trump as they investigated contacts between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, according to an administration official.

NEW DELHI/PORT VICTORIA,  (Reuters) – India has signed a 20-year pact with the Seychelles to build an airstrip and a jetty for its navy in the island chain, the two countries said, as the South Asian nation steps up a contest with China for influence in the Indian Ocean.

(Reuters) – Los Angeles County homicide detectives have named actor Robert Wagner a “person of interest” in the probe of the unexplained 1981 drowning of his wife, actress Natalie Wood, saying he was the last person with her before she vanished off Southern California.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – International health campaigners and alcohol concern groups called on a major global HIV and malaria fund yesterday to end immediately a partnership it had signed with the Dutch brewer Heineken.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A federal court yesterday ordered the arrest of the former chief executive officer of Bank of New York Mellon Corp’s unit in Brazil, a source with knowledge of the matter said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI said yesterday it had “grave concerns” about the accuracy of a top-secret House Intelligence Committee memo alleging anti-Trump bias within the Justice Department, challenging President Donald Trump’s pledge to release it.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw federal protections from millions of acres of Utah wilderness will reopen much of the iconic terrain to gold, silver, copper, and uranium land claims under a Wild West-era mining law, according to federal officials.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Traffic will soar above the muddy swamp between Uganda’s capital and its international airport when a new Chinese-built highway opens in a few months time, but the road itself is mired in controversy.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc, Berkshire Hathaway Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co said yesterday they will form a company to cut health costs for hundreds of thousands of their employees, setting up a major challenge to an inefficient U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, criticized by President Donald Trump and other Republicans for alleged bias against him and in favour of his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, has stepped down, U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration said yesterday it would not immediately impose additional sanctions on Russia under a new law designed to punish Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S.

ADDIS ABABA,  (Reuters) – China and the African Union dismissed yesterday a report in French newspaper Le Monde that Beijing had bugged the regional bloc’s headquarters in the Ethiopian capital.

MAPUTO,  (Reuters) – Mozambique’s Attorney General has filed a legal complaint against officials and state-owned companies involved in securing $2 billion in loans that were not approved by parliament or disclosed publicly, her office said on Monday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Scientists have assembled the most complete human genome to be mapped with a single technology using a new pocket-size portable DNA sequencer, which they say could one day make genome mapping quick and simple enough to do at home.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The top U.S. communications regulator, wireless companies and some lawmakers oppose an idea by members of President Donald Trump’s national security team for the government to build a 5G wireless network to counter China spying on phone calls.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – New dengue vaccines being developed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd and U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s national security team is looking at options to counter the threat of China spying on U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican officials said yesterday the government was set to unleash a new wave of troops to crack down on criminal groups in regions where a surge in violence led to more than 25,000 murders last year.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian police wrestled opposition leader Alexei Navalny into a patrol wagon yesterday moments after he appeared at a rally to urge voters to boycott what he said would be a rigged presidential election in March.