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(Reuters) - Online retailing behemoth Amazon.com Inc has cut ties with Washington lobbying firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Squire Patton Boggs, Bloomberg reported on Friday. from Reuters: Technology News https://ift.tt/2pPO0Vp

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp said on Friday it would not be able to complete an $18 billion deal to sell its prized chip unit by an agreed deadline at the end of March, as it had not received anti-monopoly approval from China. from Reuters: Technology News https://ift.tt/2GAe00X

BEIJING (Reuters) - Businesses and consumers in China are bracing themselves ahead of a March 31 ban on non-state sanctioned virtual private networks (VPNs), saying regulators have not provided clarity on how the ban will be implemented. from Reuters: Technology News https://ift.tt/2GY6qe3

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants an early exit of U.S. troops from Syria, two senior administration officials said on Friday, a stance that may put him at odds with U.S. military officials who see the fight against Islamic State as nowhere near complete. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GoPReo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled 59 diplomats from 23 countries on Friday and said it reserved the right to take action against four other nations in a worsening standoff with the West over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IhR1oD

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - In the Pakistani hometown of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, reminders are frequent of the daughter of scenic northwestern Swat Valley who survived a gun attack – and so are memories of harsh rule by the Taliban. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IkxxzI

GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters) - At least 16 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured on Friday by Israeli security forces confronting one of the largest Palestinian demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border in recent years, Gaza medical officials said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2E4BZQt

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis led Roman Catholics in Good Friday services under tight security, urging people, including ministers of his Church, to rediscover the capacity to feel shame for their role in the world's ills. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2J2DEtz

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro along with more than 50 Venezuelan nationals are considered "high risk" for laundering money and financing terrorism, according to an advisory issued by Panama's economy and finance ministry. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2pRS8DG

President Donald Trump told Russia's Vladimir Putin that if the two countries from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Gm1e2w

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The National Rifle Association has launched a heated offensive in the weeks from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J37RZp

Hundreds more Syrian rebels and civilians prepared Friday to leave Eastern Ghouta under a negotiated withdrawal, as Russia unilaterally announced a similar deal to empty the final pocket of the battered enclave. The former rebel bastion on the outskirts of Damascus has been drained by a nearly six-week Syrian government assault and two evacuation deals brokered by regime ally Moscow. Under such agreements, rebels agree to hand over territory in exchange for safe passage for them and civilians to opposition-held northwest Syria. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GXkbK5

A Colorado man has been arrested after allegedly shooting his neighbour five times in the head because he thought he was beating his dog. Michael Kourosh Sadeghi, 32, was arrested for allegedly killing his 42-year-old Denver neighbour, Dustin Schmidt, after an incident in which he is said to have walked into his back yard and unloaded five shots into the back of the neighbour's head. Vicki Branaghan,— the victim's fiancee — who said she was in the backyard at the time, told the Denver Post that the gun shots followed after Mr Schmidt swatted his dog for trying to jump over their fence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GkgrFs

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a campaign to end closed-door, one-on-one meetings between Mormon lay leaders and youth (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IimpDo

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit one of the island's oldest and most reliable diplomatic allies next month, amid growing pressure from China to whittle away the number of countries with which Taiwan has formal ties. China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be a wayward province, ineligible for state-to-state relations, and has slowly managed to cut the dwindling number of countries which maintain ties with Taipei. Last year, China established relations with Panama, which had for decades been a steadfast Taiwan ally, in a major diplomatic coup for Beijing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E85QaK

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas agency plans to conduct a full audit of a water park's inspection records before it reopens this spring, a state official said Wednesday, after criminal charges were filed over the decapitation of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest waterslide there in 2016. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DYxPJH

Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr said the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election raises “difficult and serious” issues that need to be evaluated by the Justice Department. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GD5Jcn

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A Utah man tied up two teenagers, stabbed them to death, and dumped their bodies in an abandoned mine shaft before they were reported missing nearly three months ago, police said Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IkAj86

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