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• Exclusive: Venezuela skirts U.S. sanctions by funneling oil sales via Russia 04/19/2019
  President Nicolas Maduro is funneling cashflow from Venezuelan oil sales through Russian state energy giant Rosneft as he seeks to evade U.S. sanctions designed to oust him from power, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters.
• Earnings deluge could make or break sentiment 04/19/2019
  Next week will go a long way in determining whether investors should be concerned about the dawning of an earnings recession or whether back-to-back quarters of negative growth can be avoided in what is the heaviest week for profit reporting by U.S. companies.
• In unflattering detail, Mueller report reveals Trump actions to impede inquiry 04/19/2019
  (Advisory: Story includes language that might offend some readers.)
• U.S., Russia say cannot support a U.N. call for Libya truce: diplomats 04/18/2019
  The United States and Russia both said on Thursday they could not support a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Libya at this time, diplomats said, as mortar bombs crashed down on a suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
• Mortar bombs land on Tripoli suburb as two-week battle rages on 04/18/2019
  Mortar bombs crashed down on a suburb of Tripoli on Thursday, almost hitting a clinic and adding to people's suffering after two weeks of an offensive by eastern troops on the Libyan capital, which is held by an internationally recognized government.
• Time-lapse shots of Notre-Dame spire may yield clues on blaze 04/18/2019
  A time lapse camera installed just hours before Monday's devastating blaze at Notre-Dame de Paris may contain vital clues as to what caused the inferno, a French scaffolding company working at the cathedral said on Thursday.
• Some U.S. lawmakers will see less-redacted version of Mueller report next week 04/18/2019
  Some U.S. lawmakers will be able to read a less-redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report beginning next week, the Justice Department said in a letter on Thursday to the chairmen of the House and Senate judiciary committees.
• U.S. court upholds most of California's 'sanctuary' migrant laws 04/18/2019
  The Trump administration lost a court bid on Thursday aimed at striking down California's "sanctuary" statutes that prevent local law enforcement from helping the U.S. government's crackdown on illegal immigration.