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ABUJA (Reuters) – The West African regional bloc said yesterday it would take all necessary actions to uphold the result of a Dec.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday strongly suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorized the computer hacks of Democratic Party emails that American intelligence officials say were aimed at helping Republican Donald Trump win the Nov.

EL PINAL/CIUDAD GUAYANA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Protests and looting broke out in parts of Venezuela on Friday due to a lack of cash after the socialist government suddenly pulled the nation’s largest banknote from circulation in the midst of a brutal economic crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Chinese warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by a U.S.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told the United States yesterday to prepare for repeal of an agreement on deployment of troops and equipment for exercises, declaring that America’s money could be replaced.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies’ hacking of the U.S.

ALEPPO, Syria/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Thousands of people were evacuated yesterday from the last rebel bastion in Aleppo, the first to leave under a ceasefire deal that would end years of fighting for the city and mark a major victory for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Prosecutors yesterday charged former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, his wife and a former finance minister with more corruption charges in the investigation of graft at state-run oil company Petrobras.

CHARLESTON, S.C.,  (Reuters) – The jury in avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof’s federal hate crimes trial found him guilty on all counts yesterday for gunning down nine black parishioners at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, last year.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – World powers can stop a “Rwanda-like” genocide in South Sudan if they immediately deploy a 4,000-strong protection force across the country and set up a court to prosecute atrocities, the head of a U.N.

  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump and some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives met at his Manhattan tower yesterday, a summit convened to smooth over frictions after both sides made no secret of their disdain for each other during the election campaign.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A prominent Chilean business leader presented the country’s economy minister with an inflatable doll on stage at an event late yesterday, sparking a social media storm and criticism by President Michelle Bachelet.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, has vowed to root out corruption in his ruling party, threatening “no mercy” for anyone giving or taking bribes.

   (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday that it has identified a new system breach that occurred in August 2013 and involved data associated with more than one billion user accounts.

ALEPPO, Syria/BEIRUT/GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Rebel resistance in the Syrian city of Aleppo ended yesterday after years of fighting and months of bitter siege and bombardment that culminated in a bloody retreat, as insurgents agreed to withdraw in a ceasefire.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar, who fled to Democratic Republic of Congo in August after fierce fighting, is being held in South Africa to stop him stirring up trouble, diplomatic and political sources said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump named the head of Exxon Mobil Corp, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday it would be “very damaging” to both Cubans as well as the United States’ standing in Latin America if the next administration reverses President Barack Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former minister of mines in Guinea was arrested yesterday on U.S.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China will appoint “river chiefs” to prevent pollution in the nation’s waterways, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday, in the latest step taken by Beijing to rein in environmental damage.