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(Reuters) – An armed attack has killed 10 people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil, the public prosecutor’s office of Ecuador and police reported on Sunday.

TORONTO (Reuters) – As Canada’s largest strike by federal workers approaches its third week, thousands of people are in immigration limbo amid canceled hearings and stalled applications, which could make it harder for the country to compete for global talent as employers face a tight labour market.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s rival military forces accused each other of fresh violations of a ceasefire on Sunday as their deadly conflict rumbled on for a third week despite warnings of a slide towards civil war.

ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguay’s election officials were counting ballots after polls closed on Sunday in what could be the sharpest challenge to the ruling conservative Colorado Party in over a decade and as the country’s long ties with Taiwan were potentially at stake.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, (Reuters) – The Vatican is involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Pope Francis said today, declining to give further details.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – As Canada’s largest strike by federal workers approaches its third week, thousands of people are in immigration limbo amid canceled hearings and stalled applications, which could make it harder for the country to compete for global talent as employers face a tight labour market.

NEW DELHI/LONDON,  (Reuters) – An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in Indian-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a chemicals trader involved in the supply chain told Reuters.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – At a summit tomorrow, U.S. President Joe Biden and Philippines counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr are expected to reach agreements on greater business engagement, as well as “military enhancements” amid shared concerns about China, a senior Biden administration official told Reuters.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum yesterday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire, prompting more civilians to flee and renewed warnings of wider instability if the war is not stopped.

(Reuters) – A Ukrainian drone strike set ablaze a Russian fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol early yesterday, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky in the latest attack on the Russia-occupied peninsula.

(Reuters) – Montana’s governor on Friday enacted a Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender children, days after a transgender lawmaker protesting the bill was barred from the floor of the state legislature, sparking a national furor.

(Reuters) – A man shot dead five neighbours including an 8-year-old boy after some of them had asked him to stop shooting a semiautomatic rifle in his front yard in Cleveland, Texas, because it was keeping their baby awake, police said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – Five people including an 8-year-old child were killed in a shooting at a home in Cleveland, Texas, ABC News reported on Saturday, citing local police and authorities.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Strikes by air, tanks and artillery rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and the adjacent city of Bahri yesterday, witnesses said, mocking a 72-hour truce extension announced by the army and a rival paramilitary force.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban and U.S. officials met yesterday in Havana to discuss anti-terrorism measures, Cuba’s interior ministry said, broaching a particularly thorny subject between the two long-time rivals in the latest in a series of bilateral talks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito believes the leak last May of a draft opinion that ended the nationwide right to abortion was meant to “intimidate” the court into changing its decision, the conservative justice told the Wall Street Journal.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India and Russia agreed to strengthen their defence partnership in talks between their defence ministers on Friday, the Indian government said, amid worries in New Delhi that the war in Ukraine was hurting its own military supplies from Moscow.

UMAN, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russia hurled missiles at cities across Ukraine as people slept early today, killing at least 17 people in the first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigned today after an independent report found he breached rules by not disclosing a potential conflict of interest in his role in securing a $1 million loan for the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – A Dutch court today ordered a man who judges said had fathered between 500 and 600 children around the world to stop donating sperm.