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MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who remains active despite leading a failed mutiny against the Russian army’s top brass last month, has hailed Niger’s military coup as good news and offered his fighters’ services to bring order.

(Reuters) – African leaders pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin today to move ahead with their peace plan to end the Ukraine war and to renew a deal on the export of Ukrainian grain that Moscow tore up last week.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday told African leaders he would gift them tens of thousands of tons of grain despite Western sanctions, which he said made it harder for Moscow to export its grain and fertilisers.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Nuclear-capable missiles and new attack drones were among the weapons displayed in a large military parade staged in Pyongyang for leader Kim Jong Un and visiting delegations from China and Russia, North Korean state media reported on Friday.

NIAMEY,  (Reuters) – Niger President Mohamed Bazoum remained held in the presidential palace on Thursday afternoon and it was unclear who was in charge of the country after soldiers on Wednesday evening declared a military coup that sparked widespread condemnation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump ordered employees at his Florida resort to delete security videos as he was under investigation for retaining classified documents, U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin today told African leaders he would gift them tens of thousands of tons of grain within months despite Western sanctions, which he said made it harder for Moscow to export its grain and fertilisers.

NIAMEY,  (Reuters) – Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been removed from power, according to a group of soldiers who appeared on the West African nation’s national television late yesterday, hours after the president was held in the presidential palace.

DUBLIN, (Reuters) – Sinead O’Connor, the Irish singer known for her stirring voice, 1990 chart-topping hit “Nothing Compares 2 U” and outspoken views, has died at the age of 56, Irish media quoted her family as saying on Wednesday.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – The head of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, said he would visit Guatemala on Monday, following escalating concerns over the country’s presidential vote scheduled for August.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled much of his cabinet yesterday, adding focus on economic issues like a housing shortage and the rising cost of living that have hurt his standing with voters.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A tearful Kevin Spacey said he was “humbled” after a jury in a London court found him not guilty yesterday of carrying out multiple sex assaults on four men.

(Reuters) – Canada’s Imperial Oil IMO.TO, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil,  spilled crude oil into a process-water lagoon at its Mahihkan plant in northern Alberta, contaminating a flock of geese, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) said on Wednesday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain is reviewing a class of drugs used in a diabetes medicine and a weight-loss treatment sold by Novo Nordisk NOVOb.CO

LONDON, (Reuters) – A tearful Kevin Spacey said he was “humbled” after a jury in a London court found him not guilty today of carrying out multiple sex assaults on four men.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain is reviewing a class of drugs used in a diabetes medicine and a weight-loss treatment sold by Novo Nordisk NOVOb.CO

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – A fire blazed on a ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board today, killing one person and injuring several others, the coastguard said.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli doctors declared a strike yesterday and more army reservists have asked to halt service in a public backlash over the hard-right government’s ratification of the first stage of a judicial overhaul that critics say endangers democracy.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China named veteran diplomat Wang Yi its new foreign minister yesterday, removing former rising star Qin Gang after a mysterious one-month absence from duties barely half a year into the job.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican security forces were complicit in the 2014 abduction of 43 student teachers and concealed documents which showed where some of them were taken, according to a new report by an independent panel of international experts presented yesterday.