Feb 2 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- A KKR KKR.N consortium is nearing a deal to buy a Singapore-based global data center provider ST Telemedia Global Data Centres that would value the company at more than $10 billion.

- BlueScope Steel BSL.AX isn't in talks with suitors Steel Dynamics STLD.O and SGH but would be open to a takeover proposal that meets its expectations, the company's new chief executive officer said.

- Paris-based Capgemini CAPP.PA has decided to sell a division that does business with ICE, after it emerged that the company has a contract with the agency to help track immigrants.

- U.S. President Donald Trump said the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for two years for renovations, a move he said would turn the venerated national cultural institution into a "new and spectacular Entertainment Complex."

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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