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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A spending bill backed by Donald Trump failed in the U.S.

MAMOUDZOU/PARIS, (Reuters) – People in storm-ravaged Mayotte implored French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday to do more to help as he toured the overseas territory, where scores are feared dead in the rubble left by Cyclone Chido.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A senior White House official yesterday said nuclear-armed Pakistan is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to strike targets well beyond South Asia, making it an “emerging threat” to the United States.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) –  Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination.

(Reuters) – A Georgia appeals court ruled yesterday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must be disqualified from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump and several of his allies for attempting to interfere in the 2020 election in the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. deportations of immigrants rose in the past year to the highest level since 2014, according to a U.S.

AVIGNON, France,  (Reuters) – A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty yesterday of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body in a case that has horrified the world.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with U.S.

AVIGNON, France,  (Reuters) – A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty today of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body in a case that has horrified the world.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump yesterday disrupted bipartisan efforts to avert a government shutdown as he pressured his fellow Republicans in Congress to reject a stopgap bill to keep the government funded past the end of the week.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana’s Supreme Court yesterday dismissed two separate cases challenging the legality of one of Africa’s most restrictive pieces of anti-LGBT legislation, paving the way for the president to sign it into law.

(Reuters) – Montana’s top court ruled on Wednesday the state’s constitution guarantees a right to a stable climate and invalidates laws barring regulators from considering the effects of greenhouse-gas emissions when permitting fossil-fuel projects.

(Reuters) – The U.S. reported its first severe human case of bird flu yesterday in a Louisiana resident who is hospitalized in critical condition after suspected contact with an infected backyard flock.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union countries yesterday approved a year’s delay to the bloc’s anti-deforestation law, confirming the postponement of the world-first green policy, the Council of the EU said in a statement.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court, upheld yesterday former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for corruption and influence peddling.

(Reuters) – Thousands of Amazon.com <AMZN.O> workers will walk off the job today at 6 a.m.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) President-elect Donald Trump plans to launch a mass deportation operation targeting millions of immigrants living in the U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service yesterday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the country and probably the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy.

(Reuters) – Rescuers in Vanuatu searched on Wednesday for people trapped under rubble a day after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific nation’s capital Port Vila, killing 14 people and damaging commercial buildings, embassies and a hospital.