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THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unannounced visit to the International Criminal Court yesterday and met its top prosecutor, a sign of Washington’s shifting policy toward the world’s permanent war crimes tribunal.

JENIN, West Bank,  (Reuters) – Israeli forces backed by the rare use of helicopter gunships killed five Palestinians including a teenager and wounded more than 90, as a West Bank raid led to an hours-long gunbattle with armed fighters, the military and health officials said.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yetserday it had driven Russian forces out of an eighth village in its two-week-old counteroffensive and a defence official vowed Kyiv’s “biggest blow” lay ahead despite tough resistance from Moscow’s troops.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.N. has adopted the world’s first treaty to protect the high seas and preserve marine biodiversity in international waters, marking a milestone after nearly 20 years of effort, U.N.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A project to expand roads and bridges to ease congestion in Cairo has put thousands of tombs in a vast and ancient Islamic cemetery under threat, causing outcry among conservationists and family members.

PARIS/DELHI, (Reuters) – Europe’s Airbus AIR.PA secured a historic deal yesterday involving the most jets ever bought by a single airline, with an order for 500 narrowbody jets from Indian budget carrier IndiGo INGL.NS

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Britain yesterday begun implementing a preferential trading scheme with 65 poor and developing countries to replace similar arrangements in place when the country was a member of the European Union, according to a statement.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China and the United States agreed today to try and stabilise their intense rivalry to avoid veering into conflict, but did not announce any major breakthroughs during a rare visit to Beijing by U.S.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia’s Senate passed legislation today  that paves the way for the country to hold a landmark referendum later this year on whether to recognise its Indigenous people in the constitution.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Even the clergy are not immune from Britain’s cost-of-living crisis, which has now forced Church of England vicars to make a formal pay claim for the first time in their nearly 500-year history.

(Reuters) – Russia reported fierce fighting on Sunday on three sections of the front line in Ukraine, a day after hosting an African peace mission that failed to spark enthusiasm from either Moscow or Kyiv.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S. secretary of state and Chinese foreign minister on Sunday held what both called candid and constructive talks on their differences from Taiwan to trade but seemed to agree on little beyond keeping the conversation going with an eventual meeting in Washington.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would pursue “active steps” on a contested judicial overhaul this week after what he described as months of wasteful compromise talks with the political opposition.

DUBAI (Reuters) – The start of a 72-hour ceasefire aimed at calming more than two months of conflict between rival Sudanese military factions brought a lull in clashes in Khartoum early on Sunday following battles and air strikes overnight, residents said.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students.

DAKAR/NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Mali’s demand for the departure of U.N. peacekeepers heralded a sudden end to a decade-long mission that has struggled to protect civilians and its own troops, raising fears the country could slide deeper into chaos amid an Islamist insurgency and the possible revival of a separatist uprising.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing yesterday, the first top American diplomat to visit China in five years, amid frosty bilateral ties and dim prospects for any breakthrough on the long list of disputes between the world’s two largest economies.

(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the war in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissedby Kyiv.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican authorities found 129 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the eastern state of Veracruz, the National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement yesterday.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Helped by buoyant oil prices and a period of political calm at home and in the region, Iraq appears more stable than any time since the U.S.-led