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(Reuters) – An 18-year-old gunman shot three people to death and wounded six others, including two police officers, in a northwest New Mexico town yesterday before police shot him dead outside a church a short time later, police said.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian anti-graft authorities said yesterday they were investigating large-scale corruption in the country’s Supreme Court system and shared a photograph of piles of dollars neatly lined up on a sofa.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday strong China-Eritrea relations were key to bolstering peace in the Horn of Africa region and pursuing mutually beneficial development, speaking at a meeting in Beijing with his Eritrean counterpart.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said today strong China-Eritrea relations were key to bolstering peace in the Horn of Africa region and pursuing mutually beneficial development, speaking at a meeting in Beijing with his Eritrean counterpart.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkey headed for a runoff vote after President Tayyip Erdogan led over his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in yesterday’s election but fell short of an outright majority to extend his 20-year rule of the NATO-member country.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand’s opposition secured a stunning election win yesterday after trouncing parties allied with the military, setting the stage for a flurry of deal-making over forming a government in a bid to end nearly a decade of conservative, army-backed rule.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France will send to Ukraine in the coming weeks dozens of armoured vehicles and light tanks, including the AMX-10RCs fighting vehicles, according to a joint statement issued after President Emmanuel Macron’s talks with Ukraine’s president.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A tractor trailer and a van crashed on a highway in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas yesterday morning, killing 26 people, local authorities said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have unexpectedly fallen, not risen, since Title 42 curbs expired and reinstating criminal penalties for illegal entry is likely the biggest reason, the Biden administration said yesterday.

KYIV/BERLIN, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said today Kyiv and its Western supporters could make a Russian defeat in the war in Ukraine “irreversible” as early as this year and thanked Germany for being a “true friend” during a visit to Berlin.

KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – A Nepali sherpa guide climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time today, hiking officials said, becoming the world’s second person to achieve the feat.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s main opposition Congress party registered an emphatic win in elections in the southern state of Karnataka yesterday, defeating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a big boost to its prospects ahead of national elections due next year.

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – A truce between Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group officially came into effect late last night, with an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement meant to end the worst episode of cross-border fire since a 10-day war in 2021.

(Reuters) – Russian news outlet Kommersant said two Russian fighter jets and two military helicopters had been shot down yesterday close to the Ukrainian border, in what would be a spectacular coup for Kyiv if confirmed.

ROME, (Reuters) – Rome promised its full backing for Ukraine today as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy began a visit for talks with Italian officials and Pope Francis, who said in late April the Vatican is involved in a peace mission to end the war with Russia.

MANILA, (Reuters) – A Philippine court yesterday acquitted of a drugs charge one of the fiercest critics of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs”, a move welcomed by activists who called her incarceration a vindictive effort to harass and silence her.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s main opposition Congress party was set to win elections in the southern state of Karnataka today, emphatically defeating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a big boost to its prospects ahead of national elections due next year.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico/EL PASO, Texas,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration began implementing a sweeping policy shift at the U.S.-Mexico

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani court ordered former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s release on bail for two weeks, his lawyer said today, after his arrest ignited deadly protests and a tussle with the military.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea (PNG) Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko said he was resigning as minister today amid a controversy over the cost and size of the country’s delegation to the coronation of King Charles III in London.