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CAIRO, (Reuters) – Shooting their way through truces, Sudan’s warring factions have shown the limited leverage the United States, Saudi Arabia and other foreign powers have in ending a two-month conflict that is driving the nation deeper into disaster.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty yesterday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Toyota 7203.T faces an unprecedented challenge at its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, with some pension funds voting against Chairman Akio Toyoda on governance issues, while seeking more disclosures on the Japanese automaker’s climate lobbying.

NESKUCHNE, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag flew over a ruined grocery store and Russian soldiers lay dead in the street of the village of Neskuchne, reached by Reuters journalists yesterday in the first independent confirmation of Ukraine’s biggest advances for seven months against Russia’s invasion.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The number of fossil fuel companies setting net-zero emissions targets has risen sharply over the past year, but most fail to address key concerns, making them “largely meaningless”, a report showed on Monday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest private pension scheme yesterday asked a London court to block a landmark lawsuit over its alleged failure to devise a credible plan to divest from fossil fuels.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty today to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.

KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine, (Reuters) – A Russian missile strike killed at least 11 people in an apartment building and a warehouse in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s home town on Tuesday, while Moscow’s forces yielded ground in the early stages of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday its troops had recaptured seven villages from Russian forces along an approximately 100-km (60-mile) front in the southeast since starting its long-anticipated counteroffensive last week.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Iran and Venezuela want to increase bilateral trade to $20 billion, up from $3 billion, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said yesterday during a visit to Caracas.

MILAN,  (Reuters) – Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul and former Italian prime minister who transformed the nation’s politics with polarising policies and often alarmed his allies with his brazen remarks, died yesterday aged 86.

MILAN,  (Reuters) – Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul and former Italian prime minister who transformed the nation’s politics with polarising policies and often alarmed his allies with his brazen remarks, died today aged 86.

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Sunday its troops had recaptured three villages from Russian forces in its southeast, the first liberated settlements it has reported since launching a counter-offensive this week.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Sunday defended Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 37-count indictment against Donald Trump on Sunday, saying if the allegations the former president willfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents are proven true, then “he’s toast.”

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s national radio broadcaster has launched an investigation and put a staff member on leave after it said a series of news stories on its website about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had been edited to present “a false account of events”.

WINNIPEG (Reuters) – The number of wildfires raging out of control across Quebec dropped on Sunday as firefighters in the Canadian province gained the upper hand in some areas, a provincial minister said on Sunday.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – At least 10 people died and 11 were injured after a bus rolled off a ramp at a roundabout in the Hunter region in Australia’s New South Wales state, police said on Monday.

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – A portion of a major U.S. highway collapsed in Philadelphia after a vehicle caught fire underneath it, city officials said today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested today  in connection with a Police Scotland investigation into the Scottish National Party’s funding, her spokesperson said.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged today that his military was engaged in “counter-offensive and defensive operations” a day after Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said Kyiv’s long-vaunted drive to retake territory was well under way.