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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump plans to surrender on Thursday in Atlanta in connection with his indictment in Georgia on charges he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, he said on social media on Monday.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – India’s space agency today released images its spacecraft took of the far side of the moon as it headed for an attempted landing on the lunar south pole, just days after the failure of a Russian lander.

MADRID, (Reuters) – The Spanish soccer federation president has been criticised by government ministers for kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips during the celebrations of their women’s World Cup victory.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Nurse Lucy Letby, Britain’s most prolific serial child killer in modern times, will spend the rest of her life behind bars, a judge ordered on Monday following her conviction for murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalan anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arevalo was voted in as president yesterday, preliminary results showed, a victory many voters hope will reverse widespread allegations of graft and the authoritarianism of previous administrations.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Leftist candidate Luisa Gonzalez and her surprise challenger Daniel Noboa were leading a first round of voting in Ecuador’s presidential contest yesterday, in a contest clouded by the murder of anti-corruption candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

REVELSTOKE, British Columbia, (Reuters) – Canada is sending the military to tackle fast-spreading wildfires in British Columbia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday, as the western province deals with flames that have led to evacuation orders for more than 35,000 people.

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands/COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – The Netherlands and Denmark will supply F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine with first deliveries due around New Year, the prime ministers of the two NATO countries announced yesterday during visits by Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy.

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands,  (Reuters) – The Netherlands and Denmark have said they will definitely give F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine once conditions for the transfer have been met, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said today as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited his country.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme.

KELOWNA, British Columbia, (Reuters) – Forest fires in Canada’s western province of British Columbia intensified further yetserday, doubling the number of people under an evacuation order to 35,000 from a day earlier, as authorities warned of difficult days ahead.

TAIPEI,  (Reuters) – Taiwan’s election next year is a choice between democracy and autocracy, Vice President William Lai said in comments broadcast after China carried out military drills around the island in anger at his visit this month to the United States.

ABUJA/NIAMEY,  (Reuters) – A delegation from West Africa’s main regional bloc ECOWAS yesterday met Niger’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and held talks with junta leader General Abdourahmane Tiani in the capital Niamey, a Nigerian presidential spokesperson said.

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Seven people including a 6-year-old girl were killed, 144 wounded, and 41 were in hospital after a Russian missile struck a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will sign a strategic partnership agreement with Vietnam during a state visit to the Southeast Asian country in mid-September, Politico reported yesterday, citing three people with knowledge of the deal’s planning.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Seven people including a 6-year-old child were killed and 90 wounded when a Russian missile struck a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, the interior ministry said today.

CAMP DAVID, Maryland,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of South Korea and Japan agreed at Camp David yesterday to deepen military and economic cooperation and made their strongest joint condemnation yet of “dangerous and aggressive behavior” by China in the South China Sea.

WEST KELOWNA, British Columbia,  (Reuters) – Canada’s western province of British Columbia declared a state of emergency yesterday as firefighters battled wildfires raging in the hills and mountains above the town of West Kelowna, forcing thousands of evacuations.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with giving false testimony before parliament, the Austrian prosecutor’s office for economic crimes and corruption said today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British nurse, who wrote a note stating “I am evil”, was found guilty today of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six in the neonatal unit of a hospital in northwest England where she worked.