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(Reuters) – Seven U.S. states that depend on the overused Colorado River on Monday reached agreement to cut consumption and help save a river that provides drinking water for 40 million people and irrigation for some of the country’s most bountiful farmland.

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet to discuss the debt ceiling on Monday, after a “productive” phone call as the president headed back to Washington, the two sides said on Sunday.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Air strikes and clashes between Sudan’s warring factions could be heard in the capital Khartoum on Sunday, residents said, after a Saudi and U.S.-brokered

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday drew a parallel between the destruction of Bakhmut and the horror of Hiroshima, evoking the symbolism of mass destruction as he wrapped up a surprise appearance at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s ruling New Democracy party stormed to a crushing victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday but fell just short of the threshold needed to form a government on its own.

BELFAST,(Reuters) – Irish nationalists Sinn Fein followed up last year’s historic Northern Ireland Assembly victory by overtaking their unionist rivals by a wide margin in council elections yesterday to become the biggest party at local level for the first time.

HIROSHIMA, Japan, (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said today that it was time to reform both the Security Council and Bretton Woods to align with the “realities of today’s world”.

HIROSHIMA, Japan,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks with India’s Narendra Modi yesterday and was due to meet other “Global South” leaders at a Group of Seven (G7) summit aimed at broadening support for his country in its war against Russia.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration and congressional Republicans traded barbs yesterday over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with both sides casting the other’s proposals as too extreme.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Western countries will run “colossal risks” if they supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as saying yesterday.

CAIRO/DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s warring factions signed an agreement late yesterday for a seven-day ceasefire as fighting that has plunged the country into chaos and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week.

CAIRO/DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Air strikes hit outer areas of the Sudanese capital Khartoum overnight and this morning, as fighting that has trapped civilians in a humanitarian crisis and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week.

HIROSHIMA, Japan, (Reuters) – The Group of Seven (G7) rich nations will issue a statement on a shared approach on China, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said last night, adding that G7 members were looking to “de-risk, not decouple” from China.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia,  (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at an Arab summit yesterday, winning a hug from Saudi Arabia’s crown prince at a meeting of leaders who had shunned him for years, in a policy shift opposed by the U.S.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Russian officials and business leaders have signed multiple deals with Cuban counterparts at a forum in Havana this week, agreeing to work together to boost sugar and rum output, assure wheat and crude oil supply to the communist-run island, and overhaul crumbling tourist facilities.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police recommended misconduct charges be filed yesterday against two ex-officials of Indigenous agency Funai in the case of a journalist and a native expert murdered last June in the Amazon rainforest.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – American Airlines Group AAL.O must end its alliance with JetBlue Airways Corp JBLU.O,

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil is investigating another four new potential cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in wild birds, according to authorities from the state of Espirito Santo, where Brazil’s first ever cases were confirmed this week.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras PETR4.SA

XIAN, China,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping today unveiled a grand plan for Central Asia’s development, from building infrastructure to boosting trade, taking on a new leadership role in a region that has traditionally been a Russian sphere of influence.