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The sale ends the disastrous entry into the UK retail hardware market by Australia’s Wesfarmers.
BBC News – Business

Socotra, one of the most biologically unique places on Earth, is hit by a powerful cyclone.
BBC News – Middle East

The government will scrap a fuel tax to allow negotiations with lorry drivers for the next 15 days.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Voters are deciding whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which effectively bans terminations.
BBC News – Europe

A leading cancer expert says the problems date back to 2005, but no one was properly checking the data.
BBC News – UK

The vice-foreign minister calls the US decision to cancel the 12 June summit “extremely regrettable”.
BBC News – US & Canada

Despite its vast size and dilapidated health system, DR Congo is confident that it can contain the current outbreak of Ebola, which is thought to have killed 27 people.
BBC News – Africa

Daniel Gossett was phenomenal in his return to the big leagues, holding the Mariners to one unearned run over a career-high-tying seven innings at the Coliseum on Wednesday night.
OAK Homepage News

The technology-based system could cost more than the UK contributes as an EU member, MPs are told.
BBC News – Business

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says European powers mustmake up for the US exit from the agreement.
BBC News – Middle East

A former CIA agent, Luis Posada Carriles spent his life trying to bring down the Castro government.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The president names political novice Giuseppe Conte as prime minister in a bid to end 11 weeks of deadlock.
BBC News – Europe

The daughter of an ex-Russian spy poisoned in Salisbury tells Reuters she is taking “one day at a time”.
BBC News – UK

Michael Cohen took at least $ 400,000 to arrange a meeting between Ukraine leader and Trump, sources tell BBC.
BBC News – US & Canada

Two of the three patients who were taken from the treatment centre for prayers have died.
BBC News – Africa

The A’s fell short in Tuesday’s series opener against the Mariners, as their four-game winning streak ended with a 3-2 loss in 10 innings.
OAK Homepage News

The retail giant speeds up the pace of closures that it says are “vital for the future of M&S”.
BBC News – Business

Israel confirms the US-made F-35, from the world’s costliest military programme, was used recently.
BBC News – Middle East

The country’s president orders the case to be reopened after receiving Israeli intelligence.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Inger Stojberg suggested Muslims should take time off work because of potential safety risks.
BBC News – Europe