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QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government is seeking to activate credit lines with international lenders in an effort to mitigate expected El Nino weather disruptions, the country’s finance ministry announced on Thursday.

(Reuters) – A Texas grand jury yesterday declined to press criminal charges against rapper Travis Scott and five others over a 2021 crowd crush at a music festival that left 10 dead and injured thousands, prosecutors said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss the first of writer E.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Top oil and gas companies have made little progress in turning away from hydrocarbons and towards the goals of the 2015 Paris climate deal, multinational nonprofit platform CDP said yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin declined yesterday  to give any details about the fate of Russian General Sergei Surovikin, whose status and location have not been made public since an abortive armed mutiny by mercenaries on Saturday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down race-conscious admissions programmes at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, effectively prohibiting affirmative action policies long used to raise the number of Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority students on American campuses.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the government would appeal to the UK’s top court after its plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was deemed unlawful in a major blow to his pledge to stop asylum seekers arriving in small boats.

NANTERRE, France, (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron battled to contain a mounting crisis today after riots spread across France overnight, set off by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of North African descent during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia’s most senior generals have dropped out of public view following a failed mercenary mutiny aimed at toppling the top brass, amid a drive by President Vladimir Putin to reassert his authority and unconfirmed reports of at least one arrest.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to “wipe out” mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, in response to what the Kremlin cast as a mutiny that pushed Russia towards civil war.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – For the second time in a month, a mouse head has been found in a lunch box meal of a cafeteria in China, state media reported on Tuesday, sparking online witticisms and a larger debate about food safety in the country.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Over $200 billion from the U.S. government’s COVID-19 relief programs were potentially stolen, a federal watchdog said yesterday, adding that the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A standard to assess companies’ claims about progress towards internal climate targets and their use of carbon offset credits was launched yesterday by a global initiative seeking to bring transparency and confidence to an unregulated market.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A portrait of an unnamed woman by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for 85.3 million pounds ($108.4 million) yesterday, setting a new record price for any work of art sold at an auction in Europe, London-based auction house Sotheby’s said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States took aim at Russia’s Wagner Group and imposed sanctions yesterday on companies it accused of engaging in illicit gold dealings to fund the mercenary force.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A former police chief in Maryland, who was labeled a serial arsonist by law enforcement officials and convicted of setting several fires over a span of nine years targeting his enemies, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison.

 (Reuters) – Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived in Belarus today under a deal that ended a brief mutiny by his fighters, as President Vladimir Putin praised his armed forces for averting a civil war.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to export 100,000 endangered toque macaque monkeys to China, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, one of the 30 petitioners who went to court against the proposal, said on Monday.

(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he let Saturday’s aborted mutiny go on as long as it did to avoid bloodshed, while the Wagner mercenary group boss who led the uprising said he never intended to overthrow the government.

(Reuters) – A 23-year-old was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty yesterday to killing five people in a 2022 mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.