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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday about efforts to surge security assistance to Ukraine and announced a new $425 million military aid package, the White House said.

(Reuters) – A fuel tanker overturned late on Tuesday in Nigeria’s northern state of Jigawa after the driver lost control of the vehicle, spilling petrol which exploded and killed at least 147 people, police and state emergency services said on Wednesday.

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s parliament made it illegal on Wednesday for couples to go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy — a pet project of Prime Minister’s Giorgia Meloni party which activists say is meant to target same-sex partners.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said India made “a horrific mistake” by thinking it could interfere as aggressively as it allegedly did in Canada’s sovereignty.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if he does not win the Nov.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has warned Israel that it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on U.S.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government on Tuesday said it will allot spectrum for satellite broadband administratively and not via auction, hours after Elon Musk criticized the auction route being sought by rival billionaire Mukesh Ambani as “unprecedented”.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Millions of people across southern Africa are facing the worst food crisis in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, warning that its ability to provide relief risks being stymied by funding shortfalls.

(Reuters) Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused South Korea on Monday of boosting tension in its relations with the Communist North and called for diplomacy in restoring calm and security on the Korean peninsula.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s courts on Tuesday declined to stop this week’s Senate vote on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment from going ahead.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The fight over how India should allocate satellite broadband spectrum intensified today as Elon Musk said any move by New Delhi to auction it, rather than allocate it, would be “unprecedented”, challenging the position of rival billionaires.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel expanded its targets in its war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people in an airstrike in the north, health officials said, while millions of Israelis took shelter from projectiles fired back across the border.

NEW DELHI/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada expelled six top Indian diplomats and consular officials in relation to an investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia, its foreign ministry said on Monday.

(Reuters) – Sean “Diddy” Combs was confronted with six new sexual abuse lawsuits on Monday, including one accusing the rap mogul of assaulting a minor.

CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 12 people were killed and 33 injured in Egypt on Monday after a bus overturned on a highway connecting Cairo to the Red Sea coast, the Egyptian health ministry said.

NEW DELHI/OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada expelled six Indian diplomats including the high commissioner today, linking them to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in Canada.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize today for their research into why global inequality persists, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s High Commissioner to Canada and other Indian diplomats there are “persons of interest” in a matter related to a Canadian investigation, the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement today, citing a diplomatic communication from the country.

JERUSALEM/NEW YORK  (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Sunday Israeli tanks had burst through the gates of a base of its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, the latest accusation of Israeli violations and attacks denounced by its own allies.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s former finance and labour minister and first Black central bank governor Tito Mboweni has died aged 65 following a brief illness, the presidency said late on Saturday.