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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey said yesterday it would suspend high-level diplomatic relations with the Netherlands after Dutch authorities prevented its ministers from speaking at rallies of expatriate Turks, deepening the row between the two NATO allies.

WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) – Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent days, US, Egyptian and diplomatic sources say, a move that would add to US concerns about Moscow’s deepening role in Libya.

OSLO (Reuters) – Cities from Oslo to Sydney are setting goals to curb climate change that exceed national targets, causing tensions with central governments about who controls policy over green energy and transport and construction.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump plans to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at a two-day summit next month, according to media reports, as his administration seeks to smooth relations with the world’s second-largest economy.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May cleared the final hurdle standing between her and the start of Brexit negotiations yesterday after parliament passed legislation giving her the power to start the EU exit process.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Aides to U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday attacked the credibility of the nonpartisan agency that will analyze the costs of a replacement for Obamacare, as the White House sought to quell opposition from many conservative Republicans.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Two days before U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was fired, President Donald Trump tried to call the high-profile New York prosecutor in what a White House official said was an effort to “thank him for his service and to wish him good luck.”

ANKARA/ROTTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands barred Tur-key’s foreign minister from landing in Rotterdam on Saturday in a row over Ankara’s political campaigning among Turkish emigres, leading President Tayyip Erdogan to brand the fellow NATO member a “Nazi remnant”.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said US forces in Syria were “invaders” and he had yet to see “anything concrete” emerge from US President Donald Trump’s vow to prioritise the fight against Islamic State.

SEOUL (Reuters) – Opponents of South Korea’s ousted leader,  Park Geun-hye rallied in the capital, Seoul, on Saturday to demand that she be arrested, a day after she was thrown out of office over a corruption scandal involving the country’s conglomerates.

BEIRUT/DAMASCUS (Reuters) – A double bomb attack targeting Shi’ite pilgrims in Damascus killed at least 40 Iraqis and wounded 120 more who were going to pray at a nearby shrine, the Iraqi foreign ministry said.

By Byron Kaye and Jeremy Wagstaff   SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The man who last year made global headlines by claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin, is working with a fugitive online gambling entrepreneur to file scores of patents relating to the digital currency and its underlying technology, blockchain.

ANKARA/AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Netherlands barred Turkey’s Foreign Minister from flying to Rotterdam on Saturday and President Tayyip Erdogan responded by calling his NATO partner a “Nazi remnant” as a row over Ankara campaigning among emigre Turkish voters intensified.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly asked the remaining 46 chief federal prosecutors left over from the Obama administration to resign yesterday, including Manhattan U.S.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Pope Francis has said he is willing to consider ordaining older married men as priests in isolated communities, but has ruled out making celibacy optional to tackle a shortage of clergy.

(Reuters) – A U.S. federal court yesterday refused to put an emergency halt to Republican President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, saying lawyers from states opposed to the measure needed to file more extensive court papers.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Foreign ministers and other officials from 25 Caribbean countries met in Havana yesterday to discuss a joint response in the face of Trump administration threats to migrants and trade.

  WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico will launch a new round of negotiations to resolve a years-long trade dispute over Mexico’s sugar exports to the United States, senior officials in both governments said yesterday.

  NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India will more than double maternity leave, allow work from home and require employers to have crèches to improve maternal and child health and boost a declining female workforce.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye yesterday, removing her from office over a graft scandal involving big business that has gripped the country for months.