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NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Police opened fire on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya’s legislature today, with at least five protesters killed and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed legislation to raise taxes.

WASHINGTON/SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty this week to violating U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday pressed Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on the need for Israel to swiftly develop a robust post-war plan for Gaza and ensure the tensions with Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border do not escalate further.

(Reuters) – A Miami court yesterday sentenced Germine “Yonyon” Joly, a former leader of a notorious Haitian gang known as 400 Mawozo, to 35 years in prison for his role in laundering kidnap ransoms and illegally trafficking dozens of U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has deported a Palestinian member of Hamas and his family at the request of U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – France’s far-right leader Jordan Bardella would seek to counter Russian challenges to French interests if he became prime minister next month, he said today, but would draw a line at sending long-range missiles or French troops to Ukraine.

CABILDO, Chile,  (Reuters) – As heavy rains continue to pummel Chile, cutting off areas of the country and damaging thousands of homes, one community is dealing with a tailings dam rupture that has sent heavy metals throughout the community and nearby water supplies.

HWASEONG, South Korea,  (Reuters) – A powerful explosion set on fire a lithium battery factory in South Korea today, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, local fire officials said.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Eight Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a training college near Gaza City being used to distribute aid, Palestinian witnesses said, as Israeli tanks pushed further into the southern city of Rafah.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the phase of intense fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip was coming to an end but that the war would not end until the Islamist group no longer controls the Palestinian enclave.

(Reuters) – More than 100 million people across the U.S. were under heat warnings on Sunday, with cities on the East Coast bracing for record-breaking temperatures as the heat dome causing the dangerous conditions expands to the West Coast.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, could reduce the decision-making time stipulated in official policy for the use of nuclear weapons if Moscow believes that threats are increasing, parliament’s defence committee chairman said.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in attacks across two cities in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan today, killing an Orthodox priest and multiple police officers, the region’s head said.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement today.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia said today that the United States was responsible for a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five U.S.-supplied

(Reuters) – All flights from Terminals 1 and 2 at the UK’s Manchester Airport have been cancelled after a power cut in the area caused widespread disruption, airport authorities said in a statement on Sunday.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israeli forces pounded Rafah in southern Gaza  yesterday, as well as other areas across the enclave, killing at least 45 Palestinians as troops engaged in close-quarter combat with Hamas militants, residents and Israel’s military said.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – At least 42 people were killed in Israeli attacks on districts of Gaza City in the north of the Palestinian enclave yesterday, the director of the Hamas-run government media office said.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China and the European Union have agreed to start talks on the planned imposition of tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) being imported into the European market, senior officials of both sides said yesterday.