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BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Cenit, a subsidiary of Colombia’s majority state-owned oil company Ecopetrol ECO.CN,

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenyan police have recovered 73 bodies, mostly from mass graves in a forest in eastern Kenya, thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves, a police officer said yesterday.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said yesterday it had dismissed one of its senior managers for sexual misconduct following an investigation prompted by a complaint by a junior British doctor.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr yesterday said he will press U.S.

(Reuters) – Fox News Media and its top-rated host Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways, less than a week after the Fox Corp FOXA.O

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Cable television network CNN has fired longtime host Don Lemon, the news anchor said in a post on Twitter yesterday, adding he was “stunned” by the step and that he was not directly informed of the termination by the network.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said today it had dismissed one of its senior managers for sexual misconduct following an investigation prompted by a complaint by a junior British doctor.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom have evacuated embassy staff from Sudan, while other nations rushed to get their citizens to safety as rival military factions battled in the capital Khartoum on Sunday.

PARIS (Reuters) – France, Ukraine and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania expressed dismay after China’s ambassador in Paris questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet countries like Ukraine.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police have arrested Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh after searching for him for more than a month, a state police official said on Sunday, a move against the revival of an independent homeland in the state of Punjab bordering Pakistan.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – As Sudan collapsed into fighting last week that has trapped civilians in their city neighbourhoods, cutting off access to water, food and healthcare, community groups, websites and apps have sprung up to mobilise medical help and find basic supplies.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has suspended high-profile lawmaker Diane Abbott over a letter she wrote in which she said the prejudice experienced by Jewish people was similar to, but not the same as, racism.

(Reuters) – Climate change campaigners gathered in New York’s Times Square on Earth Day to urge action on global warming and cuts in plastics use while volunteers worldwide planted trees and cleared trash to mark the 54th annual celebration of the environment.

KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Some foreign nationals began evacuating from a Red Sea port in Sudan yesterday, even as air strikes again rocked the capital Khartoum after a week of fighting between rival commanders that has killed hundreds of civilians across the nation.

TEL AVIV,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests yesterday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court, ahead of Israel’s independence day marking 75 years since establishment of the Jewish state.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s richest people added $152 billion to their wealth over the past year, buoyed by high prices for natural resources and rebounding from the huge loss of fortunes they experienced just after the Ukraine war began, Forbes Russia said.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sporadic shelling rang out late yesterday in Sudan’s capital even though warring factions announced a truce, while one force said it was willing to allow airports to reopen for the evacuation of foreign nationals.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday blocked new restrictions set by lower courts on a widely used abortion pill, a decision welcomed by President Joe Biden as his administration defends broad access to the drug in the latest fierce legal battle over reproductive rights in the United States.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden today signed an executive order directing every single federal agency to work toward “environmental justice for all” and improve the lives of communities hit hardest by toxic pollution and climate change.

 (Reuters) – Current and former Republican Party operatives who have spent years trying to banish Donald Trump from American political life say the former president’s 2024 campaign has begun to gain so much steam that they fear he is by far the favorite to become the party’s presidential nominee again.