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BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Heinz Smital was a 24-year-old nuclear physics researcher when he first saw how far nuclear contamination could spread after the Chornobyl disaster in 1986.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Germany’s Interior Ministry is examining all Chinese components that are already installed in the country’s 5G network, Minister Nancy Faeser was quoted as saying yesterday, as Berlin re-evaluates its relationship with top trade partner China.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s main paramilitary group said it had taken control of the presidential palace, the residence of the army chief and Khartoum international airport today in an apparent coup attempt as clashes erupted with the military.

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 yesterday.

BEIJING/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil reset its diplomatic ties with China, its largest trading partner, with a state visit yesterday where they agreed to boost investments and cooperation on technology and sustainable development, while urging peace talks in Ukraine.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A judge on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to testify before federal police within 10 days about his role in the Jan.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito yesterday temporarily halted lower court rulings that set limits on access to the abortion pill mifepristone, giving the nation’s top judicial body time to weigh a bid by President Joe Biden’s administration to defend the drug amid a challenge by anti-abortion groups.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have arrested Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido in an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption at Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA, Venezuela’s communications minister said yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s annual inflation rate soared to 104.3% in March, the official statistics agency said on Friday, one of the highest rates in the world, straining people’s wallets and stoking a cost-of-living crisis that has pushed up poverty.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship pension reform, which triggered weeks of nationwide protests, received the Constitutional Council’s green light yesteeday and can now be signed into law and enter into force swiftly.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship pension reform, which triggered weeks of nationwide protests, received the Constitutional Council’s green light today and can now be signed into law and enter into force swiftly.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI yesterday arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania’s auditor general has accused Standard Chartered STAN.L

(Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump arrived in New York to be questioned yesterday in a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against him by the state’s attorney general, he said in a series of overnight social media posts that also lashed out against the case.

(Reuters) – Russia’s military yesterday pressed on with unrelenting attacks on the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and also shelled the southern city of Kherson, officials in Kyiv said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to halt a legal settlement that would erase more than $6 billion in debt owed by former students of colleges – many of them for-profit institutions – who have said they were misled by schools about academics and job prospects.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Fiji’s president suspended the Pacific island nation’s public prosecutor yesterday and said a tribunal would be appointed to investigate him for alleged misbehaviour.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s financial crime-fighting agency has opened an investigation into alleged violations of foreign exchange rules by the BBC, a source told Reuters yesterday, months after tax officials searched the broadcaster’s Mumbai and Delhi offices.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Fiji’s president suspended the Pacific island nation’s public prosecutor today and said a tribunal would be appointed to investigate him for alleged misbehaviour.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine from Oxford University, with children under the age of three-years-old in line to benefit.