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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least 42 people were killed and over 130 injured when a suicide bomber set off explosives at a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police and rescue officials said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had brought down three Ukrainian drones early on Sunday that had tried to strike Moscow in the second such attack in a week, which damaged a high rise building reported to house government offices.

NIAMEY/ABUJA (Reuters) – West African nations imposed sanctions and threatened force on Sunday if Niger’s coup leaders fail to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum within a week, while supporters of the junta attacked the French embassy in Niamey.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The Danish government will seek to “find a legal tool” that would enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Koran in front of other countries’ embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster DR on Sunday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Israel’s economy may face ratings downgrades, falling foreign investment and a weaker tech sector if turmoil arising from the government’s contentious judicial reforms continues, investors and analysts warn.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Italy made an “improvised and atrocious” decision when it joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) four years ago as it did little to boost exports, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview published today.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – At least 40 people were killed and over 130 injured when a suicide bomber set off explosives at a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province today, police said.

NIAMEY/ABUJA, (Reuters) – West African nations imposed economic and travel sanctions on Niger’s new military leaders today, threatening to use force if they fail to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum within a week.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Thousands of flag-waving Israelis renewed their protests nationwide after sundown yesterday, capping a week of turmoil in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed through a highly-contested law that limited some Supreme Court power.

(Reuters) – A federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president claimed the network’s description of his election fraud as the “big lie” associated him with Adolf Hitler.

(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that an African initiative could be a basis for peace in Ukraine but that Ukrainian attacks made it hard to realise.

RABAT,  (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic has recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, Rabat’s foreign ministry said yesterday, as a slowly growing number of nations back the North African nation’s claim.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a faith-based humanitarian aid organization said yesterday.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s government and opposition will set up a team which aims to resolve their differences, senior politicians from both sides said yesterday, after a series of opposition protests over the cost of living and tax increases.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Nicolas Petro, son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, has been arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering and illicit enrichment, the attorney general’s office said early today.

(Reuters) – African leaders pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday to move ahead with their plan to end the Ukraine conflict and to renew a deal crucial to Africa on the safe wartime export of Ukrainian grain, which Moscow tore up last week.

FREEPORT, Maine,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants to meet with him shortly on climate.

NIAMEY,  (Reuters) – Leaders of a coup in Niger declared General Abdourahamane Tiani as the new head of state on Friday days after saying they had ousted President Mohamed Bazoum in the seventh military takeover in West and Central Africa in less than three years.

WASHINGTON, 28 (Reuters) – The largest U.S. solar power site and other clean energy projects could be built on lands owned by the Department of Energy, including where components for Cold War-era atomic bombs were developed, the agency said on Friday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States unveiled a Taiwan weapons aid package worth up to $345 million yesterday, a move likely to anger China even as the Biden administration declined to publicly provide details on the arms in the package.