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The U.S. Department of Defense shifted $1 billion to plan and build a 57-mile section of “pedestrian fencing”, roads and lighting along the border between the United States and Mexico, the Pentagon chief said on Monday. .... Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2YheGhw Get more World News

The African Development Bank Group said on Friday that two General Electric Co subsidiaries would be temporarily barred from bidding on power contracts … Read more via U.S. – https://ift.tt/2urBYDD Get more: Nigeria Business News

Women all over New Zealand put on headscarves on Friday to show solidarity with Muslims a week after 50 people were killed at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.... Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2WgKLEe Get more World News

Forty people were killed and more than 20 seriously wounded in mass shootings at two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch on Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.... Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2W0HdpJ Get more World News

(Reuters) – Apple Inc said on Wednesday it planned to lay off 190 employees in its self-driving car program, Project Titan, changes that provide a rare window into the automotive technologies the company has been pursuing..... Read more via Top stories – Google News – https://ift.tt/2Tmvy6V...

South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe said on Monday that he would not buy any assets which struggling state power firm Eskom puts up for sale, in response to speculation that he was eyeing an Eskom financial subsidiary.... Read more via Reuters – http://bit.ly/2DXqZWU Get more World News

The European Commission has concluded that palm oil cultivation results in deforestation and its use in transport fuel should be phased out, but environmentalists.... Read more via Reuters – https://reut.rs/2RV6SgW Get more: Nigeria Business News

France recalled its ambassador to Italy on Thursday, a remarkable diplomatic split between neighbors and European Union allies, after what it described as “repeated, baseless” attacks by Italian political leaders against France..... Read more via Reuters News – https://reut.rs/2Ge46SM Get...

(Reuters Health) – – Breast cancer survivors may be more likely to experience anxiety, depression, sleep troubles and other mental health issues than women who have not been diagnosed with the disease, a research review suggests. The study team examined data from 60 previously published...

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Fifteen civilians from the Fulani community were killed last week when armed men from a rival ethnic group attacked their village in central Mali, a regional governor said on Saturday. Communal violence in the West African country has killed hundreds of civilians and...

A truce between U.S. and Chinese leaders on trade tariffs provided boosted global markets on Monday, fuelling a nearly one percent surge on world stocks and pushing emerging currencies higher against the dollar. Market prices are reflected in a glass window at the Tokyo Stock Exchange … Read...

Prime Minister Theresa May sought to sell a draft Brexit deal to her ministers on Wednesday but faced mounting opposition from some MPs and allies who said it threatened the government and the unity of the United Kingdom. A still image from a video footage shows … Read more via U.K. –...

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan soldiers will be deployed shortly as security guards for businesses of mostly Chinese investors that have suffered a spate of robberies, the military said on Wednesday. The East African country of 40 million people hosts a large number of Asian investors and workers...

NBC, Fox News and Facebook pulled an ad by President Donald Trump’s campaign that critics had labeled racist as a bitter election fight for control of the U.S. Congress headed on Monday for an unpredictable finish. Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2qvsiGt Get more World News

JAKARTA (Reuters) – An aircraft with 189 people on board is believed to have sunk after crashing into the sea off Indonesia’s island of Java on Monday, shortly after takeoff from the capital on its way to the country’s tin-mining hub, officials said. Relatives of passengers of Lion Air …...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday that the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi undermined Middle Eastern stability and that Washington would take additional measures against those responsible..... Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2zaELmz Get more World News

(Reuters) – Two more suspicious packages, similar to those intercepted before reaching U.S. President Barack Obama and other high-profile Democrats, were found addressed to California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the FBI said on Wednesday..... Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2EJyKna...

(Reuters) – Asian shares dived on Thursday as hundreds of billions of dollars hemorrhaged from global markets after a rout in tech stocks inflicted the largest daily decline on Wall Street since 2011, wiping out all its gains for the year. A screen displays a chart of the … Read more via...

An AstraZeneca drug that blocks a cancer cell’s ability to repair its genetic code greatly reduced the … Read more via U.S. News – https://ift.tt/2q2N3ZI Get more World News

Republicans could try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in U.S. elections next month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, calling a failed 2017 push to repeal the..... Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2Eum9Uz Get More World News