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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials yesterday arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in Manhattan’s Chinatown, part of a crackdown on Beijing’s alleged targeting of U.S.-based

(Reuters) – Taiwan will buy as many as 400 U.S. land-launched Harpoon missiles in the face of rising threat from China, Bloomberg News reported yesterday, citing a trade group’s leader and people familiar with the issue.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva drew criticism from the United States yesterday for his recent comments suggesting the West had been “encouraging” war by arming Ukraine, while he was praised by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for his proposal for peace talks.

(Reuters) – Prosecutors charged an 84-year-old white Kansas City man with two felonies yesterday in the shooting of a Black teenager who was wounded after walking up to the wrong house when going to pick up his younger twin brothers.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An independent probe has found that the head of the Organization of American States did not engage in serious misconduct in an intimate relationship with a staffer but that he violated its ethics code by failing to exercise “good judgment,” according to the results of an investigation seen by Reuters.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for 25 years by a Moscow court today, the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine, after being found guilty of treason and other offences he denied committing.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s army appeared to gain the upper hand on Sunday in a bloody power struggle with rival paramilitary forces, pounding their bases with air strikes, witnesses said, and at least 59 civilians were killed including three U.N.

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – A former lawmaker in India’s parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television on Saturday.

(Reuters) – Four people were killed and multiple others injured in a shooting on Saturday night that was tied to a birthday party in the small town of Dadeville, Alabama, the state law enforcement agency said on Sunday.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, the bloc’s executive said on Sunday, after Poland and Hungary announced bans on grain and other food imports from Ukraine to protect their local agricultural sectors.

(Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez apologised in an interview published on Sunday to victims of sexual abuse over a sexual violence law that included a loophole enabling at least 978 imprisoned offenders to get their sentences reduced or ended early.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Four Turkish soldiers were wounded in artillery and rocket attacks by Kurdish militants on bases in northern Syria, prompting a counter attack, Ankara said on Sunday.

DADEVILLE, Alabama, (Reuters) – At least four people were killed, including a high school football player, in a shooting that erupted during a birthday party held inside a dance studio in the small town of Dadeville, Alabama, state police and local news media said today.

LUCKNOW, India  (Reuters) – A former lawmaker in India’s parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television yesterday.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Clashes between Sudan’s main paramilitary group and the armed forces yesterday killed at least 25 people, a doctors’ group said, in an apparent struggle for control amid the country’s halting moves toward elections after a military coup.

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – Uganda’s assistant finance minister has been arrested and detained on accusations of diverting metal roofing sheets meant for a relief programme in the restive northeastern Karamoja region, police said late Friday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian and Russian armed forces are fighting extraordinarily bloody battles in the smashed eastern city of Bakhmut, but pro-Kyiv forces are still holding on, Ukraine’s military said yesterday.

(Reuters) – New Mexico police officers realized they were at the wrong address just moments before the front door opened and they fatally shot the armed homeowner, then exchanged gunfire with his wife, according to newly released body camera video of the April 5 shooting.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Chinese spy balloon that was shot down by the U.S.