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BANGKOK, (Reuters) – The leader of Thailand’s election-winning Move Forward Party met fresh obstacles in his prime ministerial bid today, as a court suspended him as a lawmaker and rivals successfully scuttled his re-nomination in parliament.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies in South Africa in August “by mutual agreement”, South Africa’s presidency said today.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders proclaimed a new era of increased political and economic cooperation yesterday but their summit meeting was clouded by wrangling over how to address Russia’s war in Ukraine.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – More than two dozen Indian opposition parties said yesterday that they had formed an alliance called “INDIA” to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in parliamentary elections next year.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The legendary story of the fierce Aztec ruler who briefly routed Spanish invaders five centuries ago took center stage this week at one of the modern Mexican capital’s best-known theaters, but the opera’s performers did not sing in any European language.

(Reuters) – Michigan’s attorney general yesterday announced felony charges against 16 Republicans for participating in an alleged “false elector” scheme that aimed to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in the battleground state.

 (Reuters) – The European Union (EU) said today that Europe’s slave-trading past inflicted “untold suffering” on millions of people and hinted at the need for reparations for what it described as a “crime against humanity”.

(Reuters) – World Bank President Ajay Banga unveiled new plans today to stretch the bank’s balance sheet and help countries tackle climate change and other challenges, but said a capital increase would still eventually be needed.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) today rejected an attempt by the Philippines to block an investigation into thousands of killings in the country during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs”.

PHOENIX,  (Reuters) – Asia, Europe and the United States baked under extreme heat yesterday as global temperatures soared toward alarming highs and U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia halted participation yesterday in the year-old U.N.-brokered

(Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday sued a New York-based company for allegedly operating a so-called “massive ‘consent farm’ enterprise” to trick nearly 1 million people a day into providing personal information and consent to receive telemarketing calls.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia said today that it had halted participation in a landmark UN-brokered deal which allowed Ukrainian grain to be exported through the Black Sea just hours after Moscow said Ukraine had attacked the Crimean Bridge.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India’s population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found today.

(Reuters) – An already rain-soaked New England braced for more downpours, with four people dead from flooding, and the National Weather Service warned of extreme heat for nearly a quarter of the U.S.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the ejection on Sunday of an activist from his Likud party who mocked the Holocaust while heckling anti-government protesters, in remarks that suggested ethnic tensions beneath a constitutional crisis.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said Russia had a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster bombs and reserved the right to use them if such munitions, the use of which he said he regarded as a crime, were deployed against Russian forces in Ukraine.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia and the European Union signed on Sunday a “strategic partnership” deal that includes combatting human traffickers and tightening borders during a sharp increase in boats leaving the North African nation for Europe.

AUCKLAND (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has said that the Pacific region is becoming more contested, less predictable, and less secure as China becomes more assertive.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India will push its Group of 20 partners at a meeting it is hosting to support its proposal to raise the share of taxes multinational companies pay to countries where they earn “excess profits”, government officials said.