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MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican oil company Pemex estimates that a deadly fire on a major offshore platform off the southern edge of the Gulf of Mexico has led to the loss of 700,000 barrels of crude oil production so far, while one person remains missing, the CEO of the state company, Octavio Romero, said yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy brought home from Turkey yesterday five former commanders of Ukraine’s garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – United Nations’ Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the air strike that reportedly killed at least 22 people in Sudan yesterday, according to a statement released by a spokesperson early on Sunday.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen today urged closer communication between China and the United States to improve economic decision-making, and challenged China to join global initiatives to help poorer nations address climate change.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who announced the sudden collapse of his fourth government on Friday due to splits over migration policy, is interested in seeking a fifth term but could face the toughest elections of his career.

KANIUKAI, Lithuania, (Reuters) – NATO has turned Vilnius into a fortress defended by advanced weaponry to protect U.S.

 (Reuters) – The United States announced yesterday that it would supply Ukraine with widely banned cluster munitions for its counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces, and NATO’s leader said the military alliance would unite at a summit next week on how to bring Ukraine closer to joining.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved on Friday the main text of a tax reform that will restructure the country’s complex consumption taxes, a move President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva touted as a “great victory”.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The Honduran government yesterday told Chinese officials it is seeking investors to help fund construction of a proposed $20 billion rail line connecting the country’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, part of a binational trade and investment push.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian high court rejected an appeal by opposition leader Rahul Gandhi today to suspend his conviction in a defamation case, quashing for now his hope of returning to parliament and contesting national elections due next year.

(Reuters) – Meta’s Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, emerging as the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, as it took advantage of its access to billions of Instagram users and a similar look to that of its rival.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, has been voted out of the hardline House Freedom Caucus group after clashing with a fellow lawmaker, a caucus member said.

(Reuters) – When archaeologists discovered a megalithic tomb in Spain dating back nearly 5,000 years and bearing sumptuous items such as a dagger made of rock crystal, ostrich eggshell and an African elephant’s tusk, they knew the person buried inside was a powerful figure.

MINSK, (Reuters) – The mutinous head of Russia’s Wagner group is no longer in Belarus and it is not clear if his fighters will move there, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday, raising questions about the deal that ended last month’s revolt.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – A French court yesterday declined to consider a case brought by a coalition of environmental groups and local authorities which was seeking to compel TotalEnergies TTEF.PAto

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. wants other countries to engage China on limiting the flow of synthetic drugs, the State Department’s top official on narcotics said yesterday, as Washington complains of a lack of cooperation from Beijing to combat illegal trade in the dangerous substances.

MINSK, (Reuters) – The mutinous head of Russia’s Wagner group is no longer in Belarus and it is not clear if his fighters will move there, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said today, raising questions about the deal that ended last month’s revolt.

(Reuters) – Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket yesterday blasted off from French Guiana for the final time, carrying two military communications satellites and leaving its nations with a vacuum in autonomous access to space for the first time in more than four decades.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – With Twitter already on the ropes, Meta’s META.O

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Extreme weather is wreaking havoc across Latin America, racking up billions worth of damage and unleashing a vicious cycle that leads to higher demand for fossil fuels and more climate change, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday.