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CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – United Airlines and the passenger who was dragged from a Chicago flight earlier this month have reached a settlement for an undisclosed sum, they said yesterday, in the carrier’s latest step to contain damage from an incident that sparked international outrage.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday spurned the Taiwanese president’s suggestion that the two leaders hold another phone call, saying he did not want to create problems for Chinese President Xi Jinping at a time when Beijing appears to be helping with efforts to rein in North Korea.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will today order a review of offshore areas currently off limits to oil and gas drilling to determine which might be reopened, in his administration’s latest move to expand domestic energy production.

  DAKAR,  (Reuters) – A special tribunal upheld the life sentence for Chad’s former President Hissene Habre for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the final decision of a landmark case, a judge presiding over the court in Senegal said on Thursday.

(Reuters) – Apple Inc has held talks with payments industry partners about launching a money-transfer service, technology news website Recode reported yesterday.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Venezuelans who regularly cross into Colombia to work, study or shop must apply for a special migratory card to ease their passage, the Colombian government said yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – United Airlines said on Thursday it would offer passengers who volunteer to forfeit their seats on overbooked flights up to $10,000 as part of the carrier’s efforts to repair the damage from the rough removal of a passenger.

(Reuters) – U.S. businesses would reap a windfall if President Donald Trump’s plan to cut corporate tax rates and slash taxes on cash parked overseas becomes law, but it was unclear whether they would stimulate a surge in investment and job creation in return.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration said yesterday it aimed to push North Korea into dismantling its nuclear and missile programmes through tougher international sanctions and diplomatic pressure, and remained open to negotiations to bring that about.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – A South African pact with Russia’s Rosatom to build nuclear reactors was deemed unlawful by a High Court on Wednesday, casting fresh doubt over the country’s energy plans.

BERKELEY, Calif.,  (Reuters) – Conservative commentator Ann Coulter said she had scrapped plans to speak today at the University of California at Berkeley in defiance of campus officials, who had barred her original engagement this week out of concerns about inciting violent protests.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A prison riot in Venezuela’s eastern state of Anzoategui has left at least 12 people dead and 11 wounded, a spokesman at the Prisons Ministry said on Wednesday, the latest incident in the crisis-hit country’s overcrowded and violent jail system.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order to pull the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement, senior administration officials said yesterday, although the timing of the action is uncertain.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s efforts to toughen immigration enforcement.

SEOUL (Reuters) – A nuclear-powered US submarine made a port call in South Korea today in a show of force amid concerns that North Korea may mark the foundation of its military with a missile launch or a nuclear test, defying US and Chinese pressure.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will impose preliminary anti-subsidy duties averaging 20 per cent on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said yesterday, escalating a long-running trade dispute between the two neighbours.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck off the west coast of Chile yesterday, rocking the capital Santiago and briefly causing alarm along the Pacific Coast but sparing the quake-prone nation of any serious damage.

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s outgoing president, Francois Hollande, yesterday urged people to back centrist Emmanuel Macron in a vote to choose his successor next month and reject far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose place in the run-off represented a “risk” for France.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump reassured manufacturers gathered in the White House Roosevelt room on March 31 that a massive infrastructure programme was coming soon.

PARIS/HENIN-BEAUMONT, France,  (Reuters) – Centrist Emmanuel Macron took a big step towards the French presidency yesterday by winning the first round of voting and qualifying for a May 7 runoff alongside far-right leader Marine Le Pen.