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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas yesterday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk’s flagship rocket programme.

DOHA/CAIRO/ JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – The Israeli cabinet will meet to give final approval to a deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip  and release of hostages,  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said yesterday.

Seoul, (Reuters) – Investigators found bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air 089590.KS 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – TikTok’s fortunes took a positive turn yesterday as a growing number of U.S.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Los Angeles officials told most evacuees from the wildfires yesterday to stay away from their homes at least another week as emergency responders remove toxic waste from incinerated neighborhoods and cut off electricity and gas lines posing a hazard amid the ruins.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) –  Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, agreed not to defame two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of helping steal the 2020 election as part of a legal settlement yesterday that lets him keep his Florida condominium and Manhattan apartment.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The flagship U.S. aid programme on HIV/AIDS is in jeopardy, a senior Republican warned yesterday, after U.S.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed repeatedly by an intruder at his home in Mumbai yesterday, but doctors treating him said he was out of danger after surgery.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said an oligarchy is forming in the U.S.

DOHA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Hamas and Israel reached a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza that mediators said would take effect on Sunday and include a release of hostages held there during 15 months of bloodshed that devastated the Palestinian enclave and inflamed the Middle East.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Firefighters yesterday confronted persistently strong and dry winds fueling two giant wildfires that have terrified Los Angeles for eight days, testing the resolve of a city upended by the worst disaster in its history.

(Reuters) – Mali’s military government is holding gold seized from Barrick Gold’s ABX.TO 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday imposed hundreds of sanctions targeting Russia in an action that seeks to increase pressure on Moscow in the final days of the Biden administration and protects some of the sanctions it has already imposed ahead of Donald Trump’s second presidential term.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa,  (Reuters) – At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific” crackdown on desperate people trying to eke out a living.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Aides to President-elect Donald Trump have asked three senior career diplomats who oversee the U.S.

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo,  (Reuters) – A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of gold bars and $400,000 in cash and found guilty of illegal activities linked to the artisanal mining sector.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed repeatedly by an intruder at his home in Mumbai today, but doctors treating him said he was out of danger after surgery.

DOHA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Negotiators reached a deal today for a ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters, after 15 months of conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and inflamed the Middle East.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s Supreme Court acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a 2008 corruption case today, clearing the way for the ailing leader to fight parliamentary elections in the troubled South Asian country.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korean authorities arrested impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol today over insurrection allegations, with the embattled leader saying he agreed to comply with what he called an illegal probe to avoid “bloodshed”.