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1. Work to replace old wire caused air traffic control issue that grounded flights nationwide: White House

   

2. Canadian judge decries U.S. sanctions of International Criminal Court as 'attack in favour of impunity'

   

   Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, was sanctioned by the Trump administration last August. Despite impacts including cancelled credit cards and frozen bank accounts, she says attempts to intimidate her and other court officials are 'futile.'

3. 'Miracle on the Mississippi': All aboard river cruise boat survive crash with tanker in New Orleans

   

   A tanker in New Orleans that apparently lost its steering slammed into a docked river cruise boat with 180 people aboard Friday, the mayor said. All aboard survived after the crash prompted a massive rescue operation for passengers and crew who plunged into the Mississippi River as the ship took on water and began to topple over.

4. Microsoft services fully restored after global outage

   

   Microsoft said on Saturday that services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook and its other products, ending a global outage that crippled online communications ‌for businesses and governments for over 24 hours.

5. UN hails progress in Ebola response, cites insecurity as biggest challenge

   

   UN health officials on Friday hailed progress in the Ebola response six months after the ​outbreak first prompted global concerns, but cautioned that ‌the disease continues to spread to more remote and dangerous parts of Congo.