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(Reuters) – The president of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) said yesterday he is “fairly hopeful” developed nations will meet a 14-year-old pledge to provide $100 billion annually to mitigate the impacts of climate change beginning this year.

(Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government has sent a dozen Catholic priests previously “processed” by judicial authorities in the Central American nation to Rome, following negotiations with the Vatican, according to an official statement on Wednesday.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against decoupling from China as he opened the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum in Beijing yesterday, criticizing Western efforts to reduce dependence on the Chinese economy.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Rare footage was shown yesterday of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing accompanied by officers carrying the so-called nuclear briefcase which can be used to order a nuclear strike.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian attacks overnight and yesterday killed at least 10 civilians in Ukraine, while senior Ukrainian military officials said their troops had made some headway in counteroffensive operations in the southern theatre.

 (Reuters) – Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man suspected in the 2005 death of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, confessed to killing her, as part of a deal with prosecutors in which he pled guilty on Wednesday to U.S.

GAZA/TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Israel today pledging solidarity in its war against Hamas and saying that a blast that killed huge numbers of Palestinians at a Gaza hospital appeared to have been caused not by Israel but by its foes.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against decoupling from China as he opened the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum in Beijing today, criticizing Western efforts to reduce dependence on the Chinese economy.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A man who British police believe ran an operation involved in smuggling 10,000 people to the United Kingdom as part of a pan-European network has been jailed for 11 years in Belgium, Britain’s National Crime Agency said on Wednesday.

GAZA, (Reuters) – A Gaza health ministry spokesman said hundreds were killed in a blast at a Gaza City hospital yesterday that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other and that ignited protests in the West Bank and around the Middle East.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing today declaring that “blueprints turned into real projects” during the decade since he launch his initiative to build global infrastructure and energy networks.

STANFORD, California, (Reuters) – The Five Eyes countries’ intelligence chiefs came together yesterday to accuse China of intellectual property theft and using artificial intelligence for hacking and spying against the nations, in a rare joint statement by the allies.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian forces used U.S.-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles for the first time, inflicting heavy damage on two airfields in Russian-occupied areas, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying on Tuesday that the weapons had “proven themselves”.

(Reuters) – The Council of the European Union yesterday added the Indian Ocean island state of Seychelles and the Caribbean countries of Belize and Antigua and Barbuda to a list of 16 nations and territories deemed “non-cooperative” on taxes.

GAZA,  (Reuters) – Gaza authorities said an Israeli air strike today killed about 500 people at a hospital in the Palestinian enclave, but Israel said a Palestinian rocket had caused the blast.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration said today it plans to halt shipments to China of more advanced artificial intelligence chips designed by Nvidia and others, part of a suite of measures aimed at stopping Beijing from getting cutting-edge U.S.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court today declined to legalise same-sex marriage and left it to parliament to decide, agreeing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that the legislature is the right forum to rule on the contentious issue.

TEL AVIV/GAZA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will make a high-stakes visit to Israel tomorrow as the country prepares to escalate an offensive against Hamas militants that has set off a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and raised fears of a broader conflict with Iran.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday barred Donald Trump from verbally attacking U.S.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing yesterday to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a widely watched trip aimed at showcasing the trust and “no-limits” partnership between the countries even as the war in Ukraine raged on.