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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – The Vatican today formally repudiated the colonial-era “doctrine of discovery”, used centuries ago to justify European conquests of Africa and the Americas, saying “it is not part of Catholic Church teaching”.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly voted yesterday to pass a resolution asking the world’s top court to define the obligations of states to combat climate change, a legal opinion that could drive countries to take stronger measures and clarify international law.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind the front line yesterday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive.

(Reuters) – Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society and humanity.

STRASBOURG,  (Reuters) – Thousands of elderly Swiss women have joined forces in a groundbreaking case heard yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that their government’s “woefully inadequate” efforts to fight global warming violate their human rights.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden today announced new funding to bolster democracies around the world amid criticism his administration has made little progress in advancing human rights and democracy as a focus of its foreign policy.

(Reuters) – Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society and humanity.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors yesterday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of paying a $40 million bribe to Chinese officials so they would unfreeze his hedge fund’s accounts.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge has ruled that former U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Tibet is dying a “slow death” under Chinese rule, the head of the India-based organization known as Tibet’s government in-exile said yesterday in a first address to the U.S.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris challenged Africans to step up innovation and the empowerment of women in order to play their full part in the future of the world, as she delivered a speech to thousands of young Ghanaians yesterday in Accra.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Four suspects were arrested in a customs fraud ring involving Chinese exporters at Liege Airport, in eastern Belgium, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – A Russian man who was investigated by police after his daughter drew an anti-war picture at school was sentenced yesterday to two years in a penal colony after being convicted of discrediting the armed forces, the OVD-Info rights group said.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico,  (Reuters) – At least 39 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out late yesterday at a migrant holding center in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, the government’s National Migration Institute (INM) said on Tuesday.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused his signature plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary after a day of nationwide turmoil when workers joined a general strike against the proposal and hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee,  (Reuters) – A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers yesterday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – China spent $240 billion bailing out 22 developing countries between 2008 and 2021, with the amount soaring in recent years as more have struggled to repay loans spent building “Belt & Road” infrastructure, according to a study published Tuesday.

 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear a disbarred environmental lawyer’s challenge to his criminal contempt conviction after he earlier won but was unable to collect a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corp CVX.N

BERLIN/FRANKFURT,  (Reuters) – Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill today, causing disruption for millions at the start of the working week during one of the largest walkouts in decades as Europe’s biggest economy reels from inflation.