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LONDON, (Reuters) – The British minister responsible for financial services and fighting corruption resigned yesterday after weeks of questions over her financial ties to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, ousted last year as prime minister of Bangladesh.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world’s deadliest.

PRAYAGRAJ, India, (Reuters) – Naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the waters of sacredrivers in India on Tuesday, as more than 25 million devotees flocked to the second day of the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, seeking absolution from their sins.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, came under fire during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday as Democrats voiced deep concern about his inexperience, alleged drunkenness and past opposition to women in combat.

DOHA/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Negotiators will meet in Doha today seeking to finalise details of a plan to end the war in Gaza after U.S.

(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday  he is going to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin “very quickly” after he takes office next week.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – At least 400 illegal miners remained trapped underground in South Africa two months after a police raid, a group working on behalf of the miners said yesterday, which provided footage of dozens of dead bodies and emaciated men in the mine.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Canadian miner Barrick Gold ABX.TO  said it will have to suspend mining operations in Mali after the government seized gold stocks from the company’s Loulo-Gounkoto complex and flew them out by helicopter over the weekend.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Traffic in Manhattan’s central business district fell by 7.5% last week and 273,000 fewer cars entered the borough’s central business district after the first congestion pricing fee in the U.S.

PRAYAGRAJ, India, (Reuters) – Nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins yesterday, the first day of India’s festival that could draw the world’s largest single gathering of humanity.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – The Philippines said China’s deployment of its largest coast guard vessel inside Manila’s exclusive economic zone was alarming and clearly meant to intimidate fishermen operating around a contested shoal in the South China Sea.

(Reuters) – The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was sued yesterday on claims that it failed to properly manage water supplies critical to fighting the deadly Palisades Fire, a court filing showed.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to hear a bid by Sunoco SUN.N 

DOHA/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal today to end the war in Gaza, an official briefed on the negotiations said, after a midnight “breakthrough” in talks attended by envoys of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese and Indian refiners will source more oil from the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, boosting prices and freight costs, as new U.S.

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday Kyiv is ready to hand over North Korean soldiers to their leader Kim Jong Un if he can organise their exchange for Ukrainians held captive in Russia.

N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad’s ruling party won two-thirds of the seats in the legislative election which was boycotted by many in the opposition last month, provisional results showed on Sunday, reinforcing President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s hold on power.

ROME (Reuters) – Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who had been detained in Italy on a U.S.

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Six people died when a propane-butane cylinder exploded at a restaurant in the northwest Czech city of Most, setting the building on fire, emergency services said on Sunday.

(Reuters) – South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, will not attend the first hearing of the trial to determine whether he is removed him from office or reinstated, due to concerns about his safety, Yonhap News reported on Sunday, citing his lawyer.