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CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, was freed on Friday after six years in detention, his lawyer said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The State Department warned U.S. citizens on Friday to avoid travel to French Guiana due to widespread protests that it said have potential to become violent in the main cities of Kourou and Cayenne and have shut down the international airport.

President David Granger, on Tuesday, was paid a visit by a group of primary school students from Paruima Village in Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A group of 14 nations yesterday urged Venezuela to hold elections and release political prisoners, in a joint statement that kept open the option of seeking to suspend the South American country from the Organization of American States.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The attacker who plowed a car through a throng of pedestrians and then stabbed a policeman outside Britain’s parliament was named yesterday as Khalid Masood, a British-born man who was once investigated by MI5 intelligence officers over concerns about violent extremism.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Republican head of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee apologized yesterday for the way he handled sensitive allegations about U.S.

DAKAR, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An inexpensive, heat-proof vaccine could mark a turning point in expanding resistance to the diarrhoea-causing rotavirus infection across sub-Saharan Africa, medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The attacker who killed three people near parliament in London before being shot dead was named today as a 52-year-old British-born man, Khalid Masood, who was once investigated by MI5 intelligence officers over concerns about violent extremism.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Five people were killed and about 40 injured in London yesterday after a car ploughed into pedestrians and a suspected Islamist-inspired attacker stabbed a policeman close to Britain’s parliament.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York state judge yesterday ordered ExxonMobil Corp to work with New York’s attorney general to recover lost emails from an account once used by U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee set off a political firestorm on Wednesday when he said the communications of members of Donald Trump’s transition team were caught up in incidental surveillance targeting foreigners.

WASHINGTON/OSLO, (Reuters) – The United States remains committed to the “principles and goals” of the global transparency initiative to fight corruption in managing revenues from oil, gas and mineral extraction, it said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch yesterday pledged independence from President Donald Trump, bristled at his criticism of the judiciary and said not even the president is above the law amid Democratic concerns he would be beholden to the man who selected him.

WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – The United States and Britain on Tuesday imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from certain airports in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to unspecified security threats.

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – Symbion Power is seeking $561 million from Tanzania’s state power supplier TANESCO via international mediation, accusing it of breach of contract, the U.S.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army commander who laid down his arms to become a key architect of Northern Ireland’s peace, died today aged 66, prompting tributes from allies and former enemies alike.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – FBI Director James Comey yesterday confirmed for the first time that the bureau is investigating possible ties between Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia as Moscow sought to influence the 2016 US election.

SAO PAULO/BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the European Union curtailed meat imports from Brazil yesterday after police, in an anti-corruption probe criticized by the government as alarmist, accused inspectors in the world’s biggest exporter of beef and poultry of taking bribes to allow sales of rotten and salmonella-tainted meats.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is considering sweeping sanctions aimed at cutting North Korea off from the global financial system as part of a broad review of measures to counter Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile threat, a senior US official said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers from both parties said yesterday they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion.