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LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab resigned from the government today following an independent investigation into complaints that he bullied colleagues, the latest scandal to force out one of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s top ministers.

BOCA CHICA, Texas,  (Reuters) – An uncrewed test flight of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff from South Texas yesterday, cutting short a key step in Elon Musk’s development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars.

(Reuters) – Canadian police are investigating the theft of a C$20 million ($14.84 million) cargo of gold and other valuables that was stolen from a holding facility at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told visiting NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg today it was time for the military alliance to offer his country membership and that Kyiv needed more weapons to fight Russia.

ADEN,  (Reuters) – At least 78 people were killed in a stampede in the Yemeni capital Sanaa as hundreds gathered in a school to receive $9 per person in aid, the official media of the Houthi movement and witnesses said yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A former prosecutor who once led the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former U.S.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – The few hospitals still operating in Khartoum after Sudan’s sudden explosion into war have bodies lying unburied, bullets crashing through windows and terrified medics staying away as artillery pounds nearby.

(Reuters) – Two Alabama teenagers have been taken into custody and charged with murder in last week’s shooting at a “Sweet 16” birthday party that left four dead and 32 wounded, a state police spokesperson said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will tell Colombian President Gustavo Petro in White House talks yesterday that he is willing to further ease sanctions on Venezuela only in return for concrete steps toward free elections there, a senior administration official told Reuters.

WILMINGTON, Delaware,  (Reuters) – Fox Corp FOXA.O and Fox News yesterday settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, averting a trial putting one of the world’s top media companies in the crosshairs over its coverage of false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 U.S.

STRASBOURG/SAPPORO,  (Reuters) – A commitment from the Group of Seven wealthy countries to phase out fossil fuels faster has been welcomed as a potential step towards a global deal for all countries to do the same, but is facing criticism for not matching the pledge with firm action.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Switzerland’s attorney general has filed an indictment against Gambia’s former interior minister for crimes against humanity committed under former authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A four-story parking facility collapsed in New York City’s lower Manhattan near Pace University and the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, killing at least one worker and injuring five others who were inside the structure, authorities said.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors yesterday charged an alleged financier of Lebanon’s Hezbollah with evading U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – British trade minister Nigel Huddleston signed a trade deal with the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A day after authorities arrested two people on charges of links to a Chinese “secret police station” in New York, a U.S.

WILMINGTON, Delaware,  (Reuters) – Fox Corp FOXA.O and Fox News today settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, averting a high-profile trial putting one of the world’s top media companies in the crosshairs over its coverage of false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 U.S.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Switzerland’s attorney general has filed an indictment against Gambia’s former interior minister for crimes against humanity committed under former authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Swedish Radio announced today it was quitting Twitter, the first major European public broadcaster to join three from North America that abandoned the social media platform in the past week.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s battling factions both claimed to have made gains yesterday as violence cut power and water in the capital, and the U.N.