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THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki on Monday demanded an immediate end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories at the start of hearings on the legal status of the disputed land at the United Nations’ top court.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Fighting, fuel shortages and Israeli raids put the Gaza Strip’s second-largest hospital completely out of service on Sunday, local and U.N.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Tuesday on an Algerian push for the 15-member body to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, said diplomats, a move the United States signaled it would veto.

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday they had opened an investigation into alleged shootings by Russian forces of six unarmed Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Avdiivka, and two at a village in the same region, after Russia claimed full control of the city.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – More than 400 people have been detained at events across 32 Russian cities since the death of Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable opponent, according to rights group OVD-Info, as Russians continued to gather and lay flowers.

LONDON (Reuters) – “Oppenheimer”, a three-hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb in World War Two, was the big winner at the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, winning the top honours for best film and best director as well as five other awards.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel accused Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of trivialising the Holocaust and causing offence to the Jewish people on Sunday after he likened the Israeli war against Hamas militants in Gaza to the Nazi genocide during World War Two.

MOSCOW/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia today said it had full control of the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka after Ukraine withdrew though Moscow said that some Ukrainian troops were still holed up in a vast Soviet-era coke plant after one of the most intense battles of the war.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, 7 (Reuters) – Israeli forces carried out arrests in Gaza’s largest functioning hospital, health officials and the military said yesterday, as airstrikes hit across the enclave and rain battered Palestinians taking shelter in Rafah.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops withdrew from the devastated eastern town of Avdiivka, Kyiv’s military chief said yesterday, and Russian President Vladimir Putin called the capture of the city “an important victory.”

KHARP, Russia,  (Reuters) – Alexei Navalny’s mother was told yesterday that Russia’s most prominent opposition leader had been struck down by “sudden death syndrome” and that his body would not be handed over to the family until an investigation was completed, his team said.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand’s convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on Sunday, his lawyer said, starting a first day of freedom in his homeland, 15 years after fleeing in the wake of his overthrow by the royalist military.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japan successfully launched its new H3 flagship rocket today, putting its space programme back on track after multiple setbacks including the failure of the rocket’s inaugural flight last year.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has relied on immigration to drive economic growth and plug labor gaps, but now he is hitting the brakes after a seismic shift in public opinion that could undermine his chances to win the next election.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege yesterday in Israel’s war with Islamist group Hamas, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos as warplanes struck Rafah, the last refuge for Palestinians in the enclave, officials said.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) –  Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable domestic opponent, fell unconscious and died yesterday after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade sentence, authorities said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, a New York judge ruled on Friday, handing the former U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, a New York judge ruled today, handing the former U.S.

MUNICH, (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations today called for technology firms to stop profiting from the proliferation of toxic content after accusing social media platforms of complicity in fuelling antisemitism, racism and anti-Muslim bigotry.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny collapsed and died today after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said.