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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday unveiled $65 million more in help for Haiti’s police and urged the U.N.

SARAJEVO, (Reuters) – Montenegro prosecutors have charged six people in absentia over the digging of a tunnel from an apartment building to the storeroom of a nearby court in Podgorica, the interior minister said yesterday, in what officials called an attack on national security.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he believed his country was on the cusp of peace with Saudi Arabia, predicting it could be clinched by U.S.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors today charged powerful Senator Bob Menendez and his wife with taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, which could complicate Democrats’ efforts to keep their slim majority in the U.S.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping offered today to help Syria rebuild its shattered economy and counter domestic unrest during talks with its long ostracised and heavily sanctioned leader, Bashar al-Assad, by upgrading ties to a “strategic partnership”.

(Reuters) – Central banks for the world’s biggest economies have served notice that they will keep interest rates as high as needed to tame inflation, even as two years of unprecedented global policy tightening reaches a peak.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday called on India to cooperate with an investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia and said Canada would not release its evidence.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday that strong U.S.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India today suspended visa services for Canadian citizens, a foreign ministry spokesperson said, citing security threats to its staff in its consulates in Canada.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia pounded energy facilities across Ukraine today in its biggest missile attack for weeks, firing what Ukrainian officials saw as the first salvo in a new air campaign against the national power grid.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Countries addressing a climate summit during the U.N.

YEREVAN,  (Reuters) – Azerbaijan said yesterday it had halted military action in its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after its battlefield success forced Armenian separatist forces to agree to a ceasefire that will see the area fully return to Baku’s control.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. will grant temporary deportation relief and access to work permits to nearly half a million Venezuelans already in the country, U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s most powerful gang leader called for the armed overthrow of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, urging Haitians to take to the streets against the unelected government in the latest escalation of a country undergoing humanitarian crisis.

PARIS, (Reuters) – King Charles arrived in France today for a three-day state visit, during which he and President Emmanuel Macron will hope to build on symbolism and personal bonds to turn the page on years of rocky relations between the two nations.

BAKU, (Reuters) – Azerbaijan sent troops backed by artillery strikes into Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday in an attempt to bring the breakaway region to heel by force, raising the threat of a new war with its neighbour Armenia.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada is not trying to provoke India by suggesting it was linked to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, but wants New Delhi to address the issue properly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday.

(Reuters) – China’s former Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who was ousted from his position in July, had an extramarital affair while he was ambassador to the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with a briefing.

LONDON, (Reuters) – YouTube said yesterday it had blocked Russell Brand from making money from his online channel after the British actor and comedian was accused of a string of sexual assaults.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian Navy said yesterday it had seized 3.6 metric tons of cocaine on a boat off the coast of northeastern Pernambuco state, in the largest single off-shore capture of the drug by Brazil.