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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States will ramp up deportations while also expanding legal pathways for would-be migrants as it braces for a possible spike in illegal border crossings when COVID-19 restrictions are set to end next month, U.S.

(Reuters) – Television personality Jerry Springer, known for a long-running talk show that featured raucous audiences, controversial topics and fist-fighting guests and who briefly served as Cincinnati mayor, died at age 79 yesterday, his family said.

(Reuters) – In early February, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta started fielding calls from community members after the provincial regulator revealed toxic wastewater had been leaking for months from a tailings pond at Imperial Oil’s IMO.TO

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s Catholic Church yesterday said the “door was open” to future talks over the release of prisoners on the island following a meeting the previous day with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and top advisors.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief called on the British government today to reverse legislation passed a day earlier to clamp down on protests by giving police in England and Wales more powers to act to prevent serious disruption.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said today that everything was set for his country to receive a shipment of discounted Russian oil.

KYIV/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy by telephone yesterday for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, fulfilling a longstanding goal of Kyiv which had publicly sought such talks for months.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s army and a paramilitary force battled on Khartoum’s outskirts yesterday, undermining a truce in their 11-day conflict, but the army expressed willingness to extend the ceasefire.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump has lost an appeal to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying in the special counsel probe into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, CNN reported yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, defying Democratic President Joe Biden by attaching sweeping spending cuts for the next decade.

(Reuters) – Harry Belafonte, a singer, songwriter and groundbreaking actor who started his entertainment career belting “Day O” in his 1950s hit song “Banana Boat” before turning to political activism, has died at the age of 96.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Fighting flared anew in Sudan late yesterday despite a ceasefire declaration by the warring factions, as a U.N.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Greenpeace’s legal challenge against the British government over its invitation to oil and gas explorers last year to apply for licences in the North Sea can proceed to a full hearing, a judge at London’s High Court ruled yesterday.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, but said no one is talking about peace in what he called an “insane war.”

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The Dutch government said yesterday that it will invest 22 billion euros ($24.24 billion) in the earthquake-stricken Groningen region while confirming plans to halt gas production there no later than 2024.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said today he will seek a second White House term in 2024, a decision that will test whether Americans are ready to give the 80-year-old Democrat, already the oldest U.S.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting today, while Western, Arab and Asian nations raced to extract their citizens from the country.

LUXEMBOURG/BEIJING/PARIS,  (Reuters) – China respects the status of former Soviet member states as sovereign nations, its foreign ministry said yesterday, distancing itself from comments by its envoy to Paris that triggered an uproar among European capitals.

(Reuters) – Georgia prosecutors will reveal this summer whether former President Donald Trump will be charged with crimes related to interfering with the 2020 election, the Atlanta district attorney said yesterday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday sent its first deportation flight to Cuba since 2020, months after Cuba agreed for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic to accept flights carrying Cubans caught at the U.S.-Mexico