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PARIS,  (Reuters) – Protesters set piles of rubbish on fire in central Paris yesterday after President Emmanuel Macron’s government narrowly survived a no-confidence motion in parliament yesterday over a deeply unpopular pension reform.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Switzerland awoke to a new era today after UBS UBSG.S

(Reuters) – A day after being accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, scene of some of the worst devastation of his year-old invasion.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile towards the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on Sunday, South Korea and Japan said, in the latest of a series of tests carried out by the nuclear-armed state since the start of this year.

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Suspected militants killed at least 22 people in a string of attacks across the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri and North Kivu provinces overnight Saturday, officials and activists said on Sunday.

(Reuters) – Ecuadorian and Peruvian authorities worked on Sunday to assess the damage caused by the previous day’s strong earthquake that shook the region, leaving at least 15 dead and hundreds injured.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Justice ministers from around the world will meet in London tomorrow to discuss scaling up support for the International Criminal Court after it issued an arrest warrant last week for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

(Reuters) – UBS AG UBSG.S is asking the Swiss government to cover about $6 billion in costs if it were to buy Credit Suisse CSGN.S,

NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as New York prosecutors consider charges over a hush money payment to a porn star, and called on his supporters to protest.

ANKARA/UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – A deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain was renewed yesterday for at least 60 days – half the intended period – after Russia warned any further extension beyond mid-May would depend on the removal of some Western sanctions.

OHRID, North Macedonia,  (Reuters) – Kosovo and Serbia have reached an agreement on implementing a European Union-backed deal to normalise ties, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said late yesterday, though the two leaders said disagreements remain.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Paris police clashed with demonstrators for a third night yesterday as thousands of people marched throughout the country amid anger at the government pushing through a rise in the state pension age without a parliamentary vote.

QUITO, (Reuters) – At least 12 people were killed in a strong earthquake that shook a coastal region of Ecuador and northern Peru midday yesterday, causing structural damage to multiple homes, schools and medical centers.

 (Reuters) – Advisors to the World Health Organization today urged China to release all information related to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic after new findings were briefly shared on an international database used to track pathogens.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. president Donald Trump said he expects to be arrested on Tuesday in a case brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, according to a post on Truth Social on Saturday.

AMSTERDAM/KYIV, (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, alleging Moscow’s forcible deportation of Ukrainian children is a war crime, as the Kremlin reacted with outrage.

(Reuters) – Credit Suisse Group AG CSGN.S headed into a make-or-break weekend after some rivals grew cautious in their dealings with the struggling Swiss lender, and its regulators urged it to pursue a deal with UBS AG UBSG.S.

ANKARA,  (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday Turkey’s parliament will start ratifying Finland’s accession to NATO, lifting the biggest remaining hurdle to enlarging the Western defence alliance as war rages in Ukraine, though he held off approving Sweden’s bid.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Riot police clashed with protesters last evening in Paris as a new demonstration took place against the government’s plans to raise the French state pension age.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday pledged more than $171 million in humanitarian assistance and development funding at a donor conference to help Venezuelans impacted by the South American country’s economic and political crisis.