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Egypt rejects Italy’s request for phone records relating to the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo earlier this year.
BBC News – Middle East

Authorities in El Salvador raid the offices of the Panama law firm at the centre of a massive data leak, the attorney general’s office says.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Belgian prosecutors say terror suspect Mohamed Abrini admits being the “man in the hat” seen with the suicide bombers at Brussels airport.
BBC News – Europe

Prime Minister David Cameron says “blame me” for how the row over his financial affairs was handled, as he says he will publish his tax returns.
BBC News – UK

Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to pay $ 3.5m (£2.5m) to a person he allegedly sexually abused when the victim was aged 14, court papers show.
BBC News – US & Canada

Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has won a landslide victory, officials say, in an election criticised by opposition parties and rights groups.
BBC News – Africa

Chris Coghlan ripped a one-out home run off Mariners closer Steve Cishek in the top of the ninth on Friday to lift the A’s to a 3-2 victory and spoil the night for a sellout crowd at Safeco Field in Seattle’s home […]

DENVER – The swath of hallway outside the Thunder locker room on Tuesday night was quite the scene.
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Kendall Graveman couldn’t get out of bed a couple of days ago, suffering from a stomach flu. On Thursday he rose to the occasion and gave the Athletics a chance to win.
OAK Homepage News

UK industrial output fell 0.5% in February from a year earlier, official figures show, the biggest decline since August 2013.
BBC News – Business

Syrian rebels have seized control of the strategically important northern town of al-Rai from so-called Islamic State (IS).
BBC News – Middle East

Argentine President Mauricio Macri pledges to assert his innocence when he appears before a prosecutor to explain his offshore interests.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A second group of deported migrants arrives by ferry in Turkey from Greece as part of an EU deal to reduce the numbers reaching Europe.
BBC News – Europe

Labour accuses David Cameron of “hypocrisy” after the PM revealed he once owned shares in an offshore fund set up by his late father.
BBC News – UK

Hillary Clinton has dismissed as “ridiculous” a charge by Bernie Sanders that she is “unqualified” to be president, as tensions rise in the Democratic race.
BBC News – US & Canada

Uganda’s only radiotherapy machine used for treating cancer is broken beyond repair, the country’s main cancer unit says.
BBC News – Africa

PORTLAND – Regardless of which five men are on the floor, the Thunder comes into each game expecting to give itself a ch
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Sonny Gray outdueled Carlos Rodon, firing seven innings of one-run ball with just three hits allowed in his season debut. Mark Canha homered in support of the ace as the A’s pulled out a 2-1 victory over the White […]

PORTLAND – Surrounding the Thunder at every turn of this final stretch of the season are teams who have something at sta
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Tata Steel will begin the formal process to sell its UK plants by Monday, says Business Secretary Sajid Javid after talks in India.
BBC News – Business