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TORONTO/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Businesses around the world scrambled yesterday to prepare for a renewed cyberattack, convinced that a lull in a computer offensive that has stopped car factories, hospitals, schools and other organizations in around 100 countries was only temporary.

WASHINGTON/LYNCHBURG, Va (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he will move quickly to nominate a new FBI director, after he sparked a political firestorm by firing the man investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign.

BARI, Italy (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday the world’s other rich economies were getting used to the policy plans of President Donald Trump, but Europe and Japan showed they remained worried about Washington’s shift.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Pope Francis said yesterday he would be “sincere” with US President Donald Trump over their sharp differences on subjects such as immigration and climate change when the two hold their first meeting at the Vatican later this month.

LONDON (BBC) – Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet suggests.

LONDON/MADRID,  (Reuters) – A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey yesterday not to talk to the media, a highly unusual move that prompted fresh charges the president is trying to silence the man who led an investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s election campaign and Russia.

WILLEMSTAD/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Coastguards from the Carib-bean island of Curacao rescued 26 Venezuelans stranded on nearby Little Curacao yesterday, in the latest case of migrants fleeing an economic and social crisis at home.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration called for tougher charges and longer prison time for criminals in a move to return to strict enforcement of federal sentencing rules, according to a memo the U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro has abruptly dismissed Venezuela’s health minister days after the government broke a nearly two-year silence on data that showed the country’s medical crisis significantly worsening.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s National Health Service said it had suffered a major cyber attack today, disrupting hospitals all over England.

QUETTA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A bomb exploded next to a convoy of the deputy chairman of the Pakistan Senate on Friday in the violence-plagued province of Baluchistan, killing at least 25 people, officials said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday ran into resistance for calling ousted FBI chief James Comey a “showboat,” an attack that was swiftly contradicted by top U.S.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition is asking other Latin American countries to pressure President Nicolas Maduro’s government into implementing a “democratic agenda,” opposition leader Julio Borges said yesterday.

  BOKEO, Laos,  (Reuters) – Kongkaew Vonusak smiles when he recalls the arrival of Chinese investors in his tranquil village in northern Laos in 2014.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – FBI Director James Comey, days before President Donald Trump fired him, told lawmakers he sought more resources for his agency’s probe into possible collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 U.S.

CURITIBA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made a fiery defence against corruption charges leveled against him during five hours of testimony yesterday in his first appearance before a crusading anti-corruption judge trying the case.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Young Venezuelan protesters lobbed bottles and bags of feces at soldiers who fought with tear gas on Wednesday to block the latest march in more than a month of nationwide protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Pharmacies in Chile’s capital Santiago will start selling cannabis-based medicines this week, the first time such treatments have been offered by drug stores in Latin America, the companies behind the launch said yesterday.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea’s new liberal President Moon Jae-in was sworn in yesterday and vowed to tackle immediately the difficult tasks of addressing North Korea’s advancing nuclear ambitions and soothing tensions with the United States and China.