Following are the top foreign stories at 1730 hours

Following are the top foreign stories at 1730 hours:

FGN16 PRIVACY-GOOGLE-PICHAI

Google will never sell any personal info to 3rd parties: CEO Pichai New York: Google will never sell any personal information of its users to third parties, CEO Sundar Pichai has said, amidst growing global concern over the misuse of personal data by some social media giants.

FGN18 LANKA-CATHOLIC-SCHOOLS

Lanka's Catholic schools to reopen next week Colombo, May 9 (PTI) Sri Lanka's Catholic Church on Thursday announced that all the Catholic schools will reopen next week while mass services would resume from Sunday depending on the country's security situation after the Easter bombings that killed 258 people.

FGN19 NKOREA-2NDLD PROJECTILES

North Korea fires missiles as US envoy visits Seoul Seoul: North Korea welcomed a US envoy's visit to Seoul by firing two missiles Thursday, the South's military said, in Pyongyang's second launch in less than a week as it seeks to up the ante in deadlocked nuclear negotiations with Washington. (AFP)

FGN8 US-LET

18-year-old US national pleads guilty to providing support to LeT Washington: An 18-year-old US national Wednesday pleaded guilty to the charges supporting and recruiting fighters for Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

FGN1 CHINA-US-TRADE

China warns retaliatory measures if Trump slaps more tariffs ahead of crucial trade talks Beijing: China has threatened to retaliate if US President Donald Trump raises tariffs on USD 200 billion worth of goods ahead of the crucial 11th round of talks aimed at ending the trade war between the world's two largest economies.

FGN11 BANGLA-IS-MILITANT

Bangladeshi IS fighter arrested after returning from Syria Dhaka: A Saudi Arabia-born Bangladeshi, who returned to the country after fighting for the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, has been arrested by the counter-terrorism police for alleged plans to establish a caliphate in the Muslim-majority country.

FGN12 VENEZUELA-2NDLD PARLIAMENT

Guaido's deputy arrested in Venezuela Caracas: Venezuelan intelligence agents Wednesday detained a senior leader of the opposition-dominated National Assembly, the first arrest of a lawmaker since the failed uprising against President Nicolas Maduro last week. (AFP)

FGN2 PAK-BLAST-TOLL

Death toll rises to 11 in Lahore suicide attack outside Sufi shrine Lahore: The death toll rose to 11 on Thursday in the powerful suicide blast outside one of Pakistan's oldest and most revered Sufi shrines in Lahore as another policeman succumbed to his injuries, officials said.