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DUBAI/ADEN/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility for an attack on a UK-owned cargo ship and a drone assault on an American destroyer yesteday, and they targeted Israel’s port and resort city of Eilat with ballistic missiles and drones.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a crime database program, Kiribati officials told Reuters.

(Reuters) – Armenia has frozen its participation in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) because the pact had failed the country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview broadcast yesterday.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – A Canadian judge yesterday said that a white nationalist who deliberately ran over and killed four members of a Muslim family in 2021 had committed terrorism, the first ruling of its kind, media reported.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin flew on a modernised Tu-160M nuclear-capable strategic bomber today in a move likely to be seen in the West as a pointed reminder of Moscow’s nuclear capabilities.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is backing outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as the next secretary general of NATO, a U.S.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza’s south and over a dozen members of one family were killed in an air strike, residents said, as the ruined Palestinian enclave’s health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Dozens of lawmakers stormed out of Britain’s parliament yesterday with tempers flaring as the three biggest political parties sought to outmanoeuvre each other over a vote on a ceasefire in Gaza.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. offered a reward of up to $15 million for information on the leaders of the notorious cybercrime group Lockbit on Wednesday as police in Ukraine announced the arrest of a father-son duo alleged to have been involved with the gang.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran has provided Russia with a large number of powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, six sources told Reuters, deepening the military cooperation between the two U.S.-sanctioned

SHAMBHU, India, (Reuters) – Indian police fired tear gas and water cannons today to scatter thousands of farmers trying to stage a protest march to Delhi after they rejected a government offer on prices for their produce, prompting an offer of fresh talks.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina’s ex-chief of staff was convicted in a London court on Tuesday of offering to help precious stone miner Gemfields GEMGE.L

(Reuters) – New York State Attorney General Letitia James said yesterday that she is prepared to seize Donald Trump’s assets, including his skyscrapers, if he is unable to find the cash to pay off a $355 million fine from his fraud trial.

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Thousands of farmers from across Greece descended on Athens’ central square yesterday, parking tractors in front of parliament in their biggest protest yet over rising costs.

(Reuters) – Two men were charged with murder yesterday in connection with a shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, that killed one person and wounded 22 near a Super Bowl victory rally, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United States today again vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire as it instead pushes the 15-member body to call for a temporary ceasefire linked to the release of hostages held by Hamas.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mother of dead Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, demanded today that President Vladimir Putin hand over her son’s body so she could bury him.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Even if the fighting in Gaza stopped now, about 8,000 more people could still die there over the next six months due to the public health crisis caused by the Israel-Hamas war, according to a report by independent researchers in the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Lockbit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims’ data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation, the gang and U.S.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United States has proposed a rival draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and opposing a major ground offensive by its ally Israel in Rafah, according to the text seen by Reuters.