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(Reuters) – Rudolph Isley, singer, songwriter and founding member of the influential rhythm and blues band the Isley Brothers, whose hits included “Shout”, “Fight the Power”, and “That Lady”, died on Wednesday at age 84 at his home in Chicago, the family said in a statement.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei yesterday called for roadblocks to be lifted and said he cannot remove the country’s attorney general, something demanded by protesters who accuse authorities of blocking the government transition.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republicans were struggling to restart their effort to pick a new leader for the U.S.

JERUSALEM/NEW YORK/TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Israel’s military yesterday called for all civilians of Gaza City, more than 1 million people, to relocate south within 24 hours, as it amassed tanks near the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected ground invasion.

(Reuters) – Prosecutors pursuing a corruption case against Bob Menendez today brought a new charge against the Democratic U.S.

JERUSALEM/GAZA, (Reuters) – Israel said today there would be no humanitarian exceptions to its siege of the Gaza Strip until all its hostages were freed, after the Red Cross pleaded for fuel to be allowed in to prevent overwhelmed hospitals from “turning into morgues”.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Ex-Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was spared an immediate prison sentence today after he pleaded guilty to misleading Britain’s tax authority about overseas assets worth more than 400 million pounds ($492 million).

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – Maltese government plans to allow 16-year-olds to serve as mayors have drawn humour, revulsion and little apparent support on the Mediterranean island.

M/GAZA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday warned Iran against getting involved in Israel’s conflict with Hamas amid fears of a wider regional conflict, while Israeli leaders formed an emergency war cabinet to present a united front.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday nominated Steve Scalise to serve as speaker following last week’s ouster of Kevin McCarthy, but delayed further action when he appeared to be short of the support needed to win a vote of the full chamber.

DETROIT, (Reuters) – United Auto Workers yesterday shut down Ford’s F.N

(Reuters) – NASA yesterday gave the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a sealed capsule that was returned to Earth last month carrying a carbon-rich soil sample scooped from an asteroid’s surface, including water-bearing clay minerals.

JERUSALEM/GAZA/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Israel formed an emergency unity government today as its jets pounded Gaza and tanks massed around the densely populated Palestinian enclave while Hamas militants said they were still fighting on Israeli territory following their shock weekend incursion.

JERUSALEM/GAZA/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Israel vowed to escalate its response to an attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas with a ground offensive, while U.S.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Israel calls last week’s devastating attack by Hamas its 9/11 moment.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive officer of Sam Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund, testified yesterday that the former crypto mogul directed her and others to defraud customers of his FTX exchange by taking their money without their knowledge.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama’s cabinet yesterday approved a modified version of the government’s contract with a local subsidiary of Canadian miner First Quantum FM.TO,

(Reuters) – One of the last three known Black Tulsans who lived through a 1921 race massacre in the Oklahoma town has died at 102, his family said.

HELSINKI, (Reuters) – A subsea gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea have been damaged in what may have been a deliberate act, the Finnish government said yestetday.

(Reuters) – At least 29 people, including women and children, were killed in Myanmar in an artillery strike on a refugee camp near the border with China which sources said was carried out by the ruling military.