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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday signed a bill that suspends the U.S.

BAHANAGA, India, (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said yesterday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – New clashes broke out yesterday between Senegalese opposition supporters and police in parts of the capital Dakar, the third day of protests in the West African nation sparked by the prosecution of an opposition leader.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin rebuked China today for refusing to hold military talks, leaving the superpowers deadlocked over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

BHUBANESWAR, India, (Reuters) – At least 261 people have died in India’s worst rail accident in over two decades, officials said today, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in the east of the country.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden declared a “crisis averted” yesterday in his first address from the White House’s Oval Office, touting the passage of a bill to suspend the U.S.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – The chief of staff for Colombian President Gustavo Petro and the country’s ambassador in Venezuela will leave their posts, Petro said yesterday, as the prosecutor’s office probes accusations of illegal phone intercepts of domestic staff.

(Reuters) – A 25-year deal published this week by the Congolese government hands a little-known UAE firm exclusive rights to export artisanal gold at preferential rates, prompting criticism it will solve none of the issues it was meant to address.

BHUBANESWAR, India, (Reuters) – At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha today, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in India’s deadliest rail accident in over a decade.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate yesterday passed bipartisan legislation backed by President Joe Biden that lifts the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, averting what would have been a first-ever default.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Nine people were killed in Senegal yesterday in clashes between riot police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko after a court sentenced him to two years in jail, casting serious doubt on his chances of running for president next year.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele yesterday announced a bill to slim down the country’s political system as he launched a “war against corruption” and pledged to build a prison to hold white-collar criminals.

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

(Reuters) – Dev Shah, a 14-year-old boy from Largo, Florida, won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, nailing the word “psammophile,” meaning an organism that thrives in sandy soils, in the 15th round of the contest’s finals.

(Reuters) – Detainees in overcrowded cells in Haitian police stations are living in “inhumane, degrading conditions”, a human rights group RNDDH said yesterday, with police relying on makeshift prisons amid insecurity and a crippled judicial system.

BULBOACA, Moldova,  (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pressed his case for Ukraine to be part of the NATO military alliance as he joined European leaders today in Moldova close to his nation’s border ahead of an expected counter-offensive against Russia’s invasion.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Franco Mulakkal as bishop of Jalandhar in northern India, who was acquitted last year of repeatedly raping a nun over a two year period.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A divided U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling yesterday, with majority support from both Democrats and Republicans to overcome opposition led by hardline conservatives and avoid a catastrophic default.

(Reuters) – Former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are planning to enter the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination next week in long-shot challenges to the dominance of front-runner Donald Trump.

(Reuters) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott yesterday appointed an interim attorney general to fill in for Ken Paxton, who was impeached last week on allegations of corruption and other irregularities.