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(Reuters) – A former FBI agent admitted to working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska while he was under U.S.

(Reuters) – Reuters journalist Adriano Machado testified yesterday before a Brazilian congressional inquiry into riots in the capital Brasilia on Jan.

(Reuters) – More than one million people have fled Sudan to neighbouring states and people inside the country are running out of food and dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump was hit with a sweeping fourth set of criminal charges yesterday when a Georgia grand jury issued an indictment accusing him of efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

NIAMEY, (Reuters) – The military junta that seized power in Niger in a coup last month has said it will prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for high treason over his exchanges with foreign heads of state and international organisations.

(Reuters) – Montana is violating the rights of young people with policies that prohibit the state from considering climate change effects when it reviews coal mining, natural gas extraction and other fossil fuel projects, a state judge said yesterday.

LAS VEGAS,  (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made a robust pitch in the swing state of Nevada yesterday that President Joe Biden’s policies are powering historic job growth and rebuilding competitiveness, despite polls showing Americans remain skeptical.

(Reuters) – A fire at a gas station in the southern Russian region of Dagestan killed 25 people including three children, Interfax news agency reported last night citing regional emergency medics.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it will send Ukraine new security assistance valued at $200 million, including air defense munitions, artillery rounds, and additional mine-clearing equipment.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Torrential rain in India’s Himalayas triggered landslides over the weekend that have killed at least 41 people, with over a dozen trapped or missing, officials said today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Madagascan president’s chief of staff has been arrested in London after being suspected of seeking a bribe from precious stone miner Gemfields GEMGE.L,

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia yesterday switched on the scientific instruments aboard its lunar lander and scientists began processing its first data as the space craft sped towards the moon in a bid to be first to find ice on the Earth’s only natural satellite.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A Russian warship yesterday fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea as it made its way northwards, the first time Russia has fired on merchant shipping beyond Ukraine since exiting a landmark UN-brokered grain deal last month.

KAHULUI, Hawaii, Aug 13 (Reuters) – The death toll from the Maui wildfires reached 93 yesterday as relatives of the missing frantically searched for signs their loved ones may still be alive.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – The Miss Universe Organization said it was cutting ties with its Indonesian franchisee and cancelling this year’s Malaysia pageant after contestants accused local organisers of sexual harassment.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian shelling killed seven people, including a 22-day-old infant, and wounded at least 22 in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson yesterday, prompting local officials to declare today a day of mourning and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to promise justice.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The death toll from a mudslide in China’s northwestern city of Xian has risen to 21, with six people still missing, the city’s emergency management authority said yesterday, as China grapples with unusually high summer rainfall.

DES MOINES, Iowa,  (Reuters) – As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis flipped pork chops in front of the cameras at the Iowa State Fair yesterday, a plane appeared in the broiling blue sky.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – The Miss Universe Organization said it was cutting ties with its Indonesian franchisee and cancelling this year’s Malaysia pageant after contestants accused local organisers of sexual harassment.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – West Africa’s ECOWAS bloc aims to send a parliamentary committee to Niger to meet coup leaders who seized power last month, a spokesperson said yesterday, part of a last ditch regional effort to restore civilian rule that includes religious leaders.