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WASHINGTON(Reuters) – Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn resigned as finance chairman of the Republican Party’s fundraising arm on Saturday, a day after a newspaper reported that he routinely subjected women who worked for him to unwanted sexual advances.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany wants to acquire the legal means to take a closer look at bids from Chinese companies to acquire German and European companies in order better to protect technologies, a German minister told newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

CARACAS Reuters) – The Venezuelan opposition announced on Saturday it would attend talks with the government in the Dominican Republic, though it will protest President Nicolas Maduro’s “totalitarian vision.”

KABUL (Reuters) – A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded about 158 in the Afghan capital Kabul on  Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint in a busy part of the city that was crowded with pedestrians.

RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the kingdom’s top international businessmen, was released from detention on Saturday, more than two months after he was taken into custody in a sweeping crackdown on corruption.

  MOSCOW(Reuters) – A Russian human rights activist who helped to expose the Stalin-era Great Terror and found mass graves of thousands of the victims was freed from jail, while pending trial on child pornography charges, local media reported on Saturday.

DAVOS, Switzerland,  (Reuters) – China’s development push into poor countries is marginalizing the role of human rights bodies, green groups and other non-profits, making it harder for them to play their traditional role as a check on rampant development, advocates said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – In a surprise move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed itself yesterday and halted the approval process for the proposed Pebble Mine copper and gold mine project in southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canadian pharmaceutical billionaire couple Barry and Honey Sherman were murdered in a targeted killing, Toronto police investigators said on Friday in their first detailed comments on the case since the couple’s bodies were found on Dec.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A unit of BNP Paribas SA agreed to plead guilty and pay a $90 million criminal fine for rigging foreign currency prices, the U.S.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s president said yesterday that more than $58 billion, or 90 percent, of foreign loans borrowed by the previous government was unaccounted for in Finance Ministry records.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump last June ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired but backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than follow his directive, The New York Times reported yesterday, citing four people told of the matter.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to sign on to a plan that would open a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million “Dreamers,” young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, senior White House officials said on Thursday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s pro-government Supreme Court late yesterday excluded the opposition coalition from registering ahead of this year’s presidential election, possibly splintering President Nicolas Maduro’s foes by pushing political parties to put forward competing candidates.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – A fire in a South Korean hospital killed 31 people and injured more than 70, a fire station official said on Friday, with eight of those injured listed as being in critical condition.

(Reuters) – New York’s Guggenheim Museum offered to lend an 18-karat gold toilet to President Donald Trump after the White House asked to borrow a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

OTTAWA/TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Two prominent Canadian politicians stepped down from leadership posts yesterday over allegations about their behavior toward women as the #MeToo social media movement showed growing influence beyond its roots in the United States.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, (Reuters) – A Brazilian appeals court unanimously upheld the corruption conviction of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday and added to his sentence, a major blow to the popular politician’s plans to run again for the presidency this year.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he would be willing to be interviewed under oath by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copying humans.