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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.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A saffron-robed Hindu holy man was sworn in yesterday to lead India’s most populous state, sealing what appears to be a shift in course by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that could redefine the world’s largest democracy as a Hindu nation.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – With warm words from Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday, U.S.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – A court found a Mexican man and two Hondurans guilty of plotting to assassinate Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who has extradited more than a dozen drug lords since taking office, a judicial spokesman and security officials said on Sunday.

(Reuters) – Chuck Berry, who duck-walked his way into the pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll pioneers as one of its most influential guitarists and lyricists, creating raucous anthems that defined the genre’s sound and heartbeat, died on Saturday at his Missouri home.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States and China will work together to get nuclear-armed North Korea take “a different course,” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said yesterday, softening previous criticism of Beijing after talks with his Chinese counterpart.

ABERDEEN, Scotland (Reuters) – Refusal by Britain’s prime minister to discuss an independence referendum would “shatter beyond repair” the United Kingdom’s constitutional structure, Nicola Sturgeon told her Scottish National Party yesterday.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Forty-two Somali refugees were killed when a helicopter gunship attacked their boat off Yemen on Thursday, the United Nations refugee agency said, and Somalia called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country to investigate.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered the government yesterday to pay social grants on April 1 via its current service provider, seeking to end a fiasco that had threatened the payment of benefits to 17 million people.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department yesterday said it delivered documents to congressional committees responding to their request for information that could shed light on President Donald Trump’s claims that former President Barack Obama ordered U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government took the legal battle over President Donald Trump’s travel ban to a higher court on Friday, saying it would appeal a federal judge’s decision that struck down parts of the ban on the day it was set to go into effect.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration took an unusual step yesterday in its efforts to defang the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s first budget outline, calling for a security-heavy realignment of federal spending, drew resistance yesterday from his fellow Republicans in the U.S.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana’s main opposition party and radio phone-in callers slammed new President Nana Akufo-Addo yesterday for naming an ‘elephant size’ team of 110 ministers and deputies despite a campaign promise to cut government waste.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee issued a bipartisan statement yesterday rejecting President Donald Trump’s assertion that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the 2016 presidential campaign.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said today the State Department’s current spending was “not sustainable,” and he willingly accepted the “challenge” President Donald Trump had given in proposing to cut more than a quarter of his agency’s budget.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Netherlands’ centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte was on course for a resounding victory over anti-Islam and anti-EU Geert Wilders in an election yesterday, offering huge relief to other EU governments facing a wave of nationalism.