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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India is expected to ban mills from exporting sugar in the next season beginning October, halting shipments for the first time in seven years, as a lack of rain has cut cane yields, three government sources said.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency deliberately lured a Russian military pilot to land his Mi-8 helicopter at a Ukrainian airfield, spokesperson Andriy Yusov said yesterday, amid differing media reports of what happened.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. officials are drafting a proposal that would ease sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector, allowing more companies and countries to import its crude oil, if the South American nation moves toward a free and fair presidential election, according to five people with knowledge of the plans.

SEOUL/TOKYO,  (Reuters) – North Korea’s second attempt to place a spy satellite in orbit failed yesterday after the rocket booster experienced a problem during its third stage, state media reported, as space authorities vowed to try again in October.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet which crashed today north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said.

BENGALURU, (Reuters) – An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon today in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India’s standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia has removed Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed “General Armageddon”, as head of the air force after he vanished from public view during a Wagner mercenary mutiny against the top army brass, the RIA state news agency reported today.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – BRICS leaders met yesterday to plot the future course of the bloc of developing nations but divisions re-emerged ahead of a critical debate over a potential expansion of the group intended to boost its global clout.

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Pakistani rescuers pulled seven children and one man to safety after their cable car became stranded high over a remote ravine yesterday, ending an ordeal lasting more than 15 hours.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday called on the Central African Republic to announce a date for local elections and added that Washington held “deep reservations” about a July 30 constitutional referendum in the country.

(Reuters) – British military intelligence said yesterday that a weekend drone attack on an airfield deep inside Russia which Moscow blamed on Ukraine is highly likely to have destroyed a nuclear-capable TU-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British police said yesterday they had charged former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke with bribery offences, saying they suspected she had accepted bribes in return for awarding multi-million pound oil and gas contracts.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – The first of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia’s criminal case accusing the former U.S.

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Rescuers in Pakistan pulled five of seven children to safety after they became stranded with their teacher in a cable car high over a ravine, but a helicopter rescue operation was called off as night fell, media and a security source said.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thai property mogul Srettha Thavisin was elected prime minister after a decisive win in a parliamentary vote today as his party’s fugitive figurehead Thaksin Shinawatra made a historic homecoming after years in exile and was taken straight to jail.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean referendums to ban oil drilling in a part of the Amazon and mining in a forest outside Quito easily passed, drawing cheers yesterday from Indigenous leaders and environmentalists despite warnings from oil and mining groups about billions of dollars in lost income.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A Kenyan delegation has arrived in Haiti and has been meeting with the country’s national police, as it assesses leading a possible United Nations-backed multinational security force to help police fight escalating gang warfare.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – The Canadian government, under pressure over the rising cost of housing, could consider capping foreign student visas, which have rocketed in recent years, new Housing Minister Sean Fraser said yesterday.

DUBAI/HARAR, Ethiopia,  (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian border guards have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, including women and children, who attempted enter the kingdom along its mountainous border with Yemen, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.

BANGKOK,  (Reuters) – Thailand’s fugitive former premier, Thaksin Shinawatra, returned yesterday from 17 years in exile, a historic homecoming that coincides with a bid by his political allies to form a new government with some of its biggest rivals.