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SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea’s rare swipe at China this week underscored how Beijing and Pyongyang do not entirely see eye-to-eye on the latter’s illicit nuclear weapons arsenal, despite warming ties in other areas, analysts and officials in South Korea said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s first Black woman lawmaker, Diane Abbott, said today she was dismayed the opposition Labour Party looked set to bar her as an election candidate over comments she made over a year ago about Jews and racism.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin had appointed Alexei Dyumin, an aide and former bodyguard, as secretary of the State Council, an advisory body to the Russian head of state.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israel’s military denied striking a tent camp west of Rafah yesterday after Gaza health authorities said Israeli tank shelling had killed at least 21 people there, in an area Israel has designated a civilian evacuation zone.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York prosecutor told jurors that the hush money payment at the heart of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial was an attempt to “hoodwink the American voter” during the 2016 election, as lawyers made their closing arguments on Tuesday.

HOUSTON (Reuters) -Hess shareholders today approved the proposed US$53 billion merger with Chevron that paves the way for the No.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – A former general manager of China Huarong International Holdings, Bai Tianhui, has been sentenced to death by a court in the northern city of Tianjin for taking bribes, state broadcaster CCTV reported today.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike triggered a fire that killed 45 people in a tent camp in the Gazan city of Rafah, officials said yesterday, prompting an outcry from global leaders who urged the implementation of a World Court order to halt Israel’s assault.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general’s office yesterday presented a constitutional complaint against President Dina Boluarte in a case involving her use of luxury watches, which has become a national scandal.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Li Qiang praised what he called a restart in relations with Japan and South Korea as he met their leaders for the first three-way talks in four years yetserday, agreeing to revive trade and security dialogues hampered by global tensions.

SEOUL/TOKYO,  (Reuters) – North Korea said its attempt to launch a new military reconnaissance satellite ended in failure yesterday when a newly developed rocket engine exploded in flight.

(Reuters)  – The president of this decade’s summit for Small Island Developing States today blasted “empty” and “grossly inadequate” climate pledges, saying wealthy nations have failed to meet obligations to limit damages from carbon emissions.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s massive landslide three days ago buried more than 2,000 people, the government said today, as treacherous terrain and difficulties transporting aid lowered hopes of finding survivors.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Li Qiang praised what he called a restart in relations with Japan and South Korea as he met their leaders for the first three-way talks in four years yesterday, agreeing to revive trade and security dialogues hampered by global tensions.

(Reuters) – Kentucky governor Andy Beshear declared a state emergency early today after tornado-spawning thunderstorms swept the U.S.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – More than 670 people are assumed to have died in Papua New Guinea’s massive landslide, the U.N.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in a raucous audience at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night, a marked change from the adulation he receives at rallies from his fervently loyal supporters.

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi group freed more than 100 detainees in Sanaa on Sunday, calling the move a “unilateral humanitarian initiative” to pardon prisoners and return them to their families.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said.