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WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump yesterday opened the door to meeting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, saying he would be honoured to meet the young leader under the right circumstances, even as Pyongyang suggested it would continue its nuclear weapons tests.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain can no longer rely on US leadership on Middle East policy and must work more closely with Europe to ensure the Iran nuclear deal stays in place, among other policies, a committee of lawmakers said in a report today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House yesterday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to invite Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to Washington, saying his cooperation was needed to counter North Korea, even as the administration faced human rights criticism for its overture to Manila.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s portion of the Barents Sea could contain twice as much undiscovered oil and gas as previously thought when a newly mapped area bordering Russia is included, raising the prospect of drilling in environmentally sensitive ice-covered waters.

OSLO/MELBOURNE/TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Norway and Australia are racing each other to show they can supply Japan with hydrogen, hoping to fulfil its ambition to become the first nation significantly fuelled by the super-clean energy source.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. congressional negotiators have hammered out a bipartisan agreement on a spending package to keep the federal government funded through the end of the current fiscal year on Sept.

HAMBURG, Germany, (Reuters) – When port manager Axel Mattern looks out onto the Elbe River from his office in Hamburg’s historic warehouse district, he can literally count the rising number of container ships leaving Germany’s biggest harbour.

(Reuters) – Tornadoes ripped through an East Texas county on Saturday evening, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, while high winds, falling trees and floods killed five others in neighboring states, according to news reports.

TEPIC, Mexico,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mexico has become the first country in the Americas to eliminate trachoma, but the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness remains endemic in Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala, the World Health Organization said.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders endorsed stiff divorce terms for Britain yesterday and warned Britons to have “no illusions” about swiftly securing a new relationship to keep their access to EU markets.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Several hundred Russians lined up in central Moscow yesterday under the gaze of riot police to hand over handwritten appeals for President Vladimir Putin to quit, as similar protests took place in other cities.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Pope Francis said yesterday that a third country, such as Norway, should try to mediate the dispute between North Korea and Washington, to cool a situation that had become “too hot” and posed the risk of nuclear devastation.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey yesterday expelled more than 3,900 people from the civil service and military as threats to national security, in the second major purge since President Tayyip Erdogan was granted sweeping new powers.

(Reuters Health) – Even as doctors are increasingly relying on home blood pressure monitoring to manage patients with hypertension, many of the devices are too inaccurate to be useful, according to a small study.

SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday, South Korea’s and U.S.

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday ordered the immediate dismissal of more than 9,900 civil servants after a nationwide verification of academic credentials uncovered workers with forged school and college certificates.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Rising crude prices helped Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil Corp easily beat Wall Street’s profit expectations on Friday, a sign the oil industry has regained its footing after a two-year price spiral.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Republican-led Congress averted a U.S. government shutdown yesterday and gave lawmakers another week to work out federal spending through Sept.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he pulled back from the brink of killing the 23-year-old trade pact with Canada and Mexico after requests from their leaders and expressed optimism about winning better U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Armed British police officers arrested a man carrying knives near Prime Minister Theresa May’s office in London yesterday on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism.