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(Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Saturday it had suspended all employee furloughs and that it expects the U. S. air travel system will return to normal operations by Sunday evening Eastern Time. The suspension follows passage on Friday of a bill allowing the agency to shift money within its budget to halt furloughs of air-traffic controllers that started April 21. The furloughs caused thousands of flight delays and hundreds of cancellations throughout the week. . . .

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A Mississippi man whose home and business were searched as part of an investigation into poisoned letters sent to the president and others has been arrested in the case, according to the FBI.

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Police in Bangladesh took five people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers admitted Saturday that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days of being pinned under the increasingly unstable rubble.

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By Silvia Ognibene SIENA, Italy (Reuters) – An Italian judge has rejected an order to seize around 1. 8 billion euros ($2. 3 billion) of assets from Nomura as part of a probe into suspected fraud involving troubled lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena, legal sources said on Saturday. Assets worth 140 million euros that were already seized from the Japanese bank have been released under the judge’s ruling, which was made on Friday, the judicial source said. A spokeswoman for Nomura in Italy declined to comment. . . .

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As he nears the end of a dozen years as director of the FBI, Robert Mueller finds himself defending the agency over its handling of two high-profile cases.

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President Barack Obama chided lawmakers Saturday over their fix for widespread flight delays, deeming it an irresponsible way to govern even as he prepared to sign the legislation they hurriedly pushed through Congress.

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(Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd grabbed more smartphone market share from archrival Apple Inc in the latest quarter, with sales of its phones jumping to account for one third of the global market. Sales of the iPhone 5 helped Apple’s volumes grow 6. 6 percent to 37. 4 million phones in the quarter from a year earlier, but that was not enough to stop its share of the market dropping to 17. 3 percent from 23 percent, research firm IDC said. A flood of cheaper Android-powered devices from the South Korean maker lifted its shipments about 60 percent to 70. 7 million, giving it a 32. . . .

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By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s center-left prime minister-designate Enrico Letta met Silvio Berlusconi and other center-right officials on Saturday to try to resolve the remaining differences holding up the formation of a coalition government between the rival parties. Letta, given a mandate to form a government by President Giorgio Napolitano, is under pressure to reach an agreement with the center-right to end the political stalemate that has paralyzed Italy since inconclusive elections in February. . . .

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