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BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister urged Germany in an interview published yesterday to speed up supplies of ammunition and to start training Ukrainian pilots on Western fighter jets.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The French Senate last night adopted President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform plan in the wake of a seventh day of demonstrations that were not as large as authorities had expected.

(Reuters) – Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, yesterday asked Pope Francis and other religious leaders to persuade Ukraine to stop a crackdown against a historically Russian-aligned wing of the church.

MAPUTO,  (Reuters) – Cyclone Freddy pummeled Mozambique yesterday, killing one person, ripping roofs off houses and triggering a lockdown in one port town, a resident and local media said, two weeks after 27 died when the storm first made landfall.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s BBC was forced to axe much of its sports coverage today after presenters refused to work in a show of solidarity with Gary Lineker, as a row over freedom of speech threatens to turn into a crisis for the national broadcaster.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The surprise deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic ties offers much for the United States to be intrigued about, including a possible path to rein in Tehran’s nuclear programme and a chance to cement a ceasefire in Yemen.

(Reuters) – Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group SIVB.O became the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis yesterday, in a sudden collapse that roiled global markets and left billions of dollars belonging to companies and investors stranded.

MAPUTO,  (Reuters) – Tropical storm Freddy is due to hit the coast of Southern Africa again early today, after killing at least 27 people in Mozambique and Madagascar since it first made landfall last month.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Britain will pay France around 480 million pounds ($577 million) over three years to try to stop migrants travelling in small boats across the Channel as the two allies yesterday took a major step to end years of bickering in the post-Brexit era.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed today to re-establish relations after seven years of hostility which had threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East from Yemen to Syria.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s president urged the government to abandon attempts to push through bitterly contested plans to overhaul the judiciary and seek a model with broad support as tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets yesterday.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Manhattan prosecutors have signaled to Donald Trump that he could face criminal charges relating to the former president’s alleged role in hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing four unnamed sources.

KYIV/ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russia fired a huge wave of missiles across Ukraine yesterday as people slept, killing at least nine civilians and knocking out power in an attack Kyiv said included six Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles, one of Moscow’s most valuable weapons.

(Reuters) – Toronto’s school board has become the first in Canada to recognize that caste discrimination exists in the city’s schools and has asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a framework to address the issue.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian president’s top foreign policy adviser has met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the first outreach by Brazil’s new leftist administration to both the government and its opposition.

(Reuters) – A Brazilian senator called yesterday for a Congressional investigation into the sale of a Petrobras PETR4.SA

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Police said yesterday they are investigating allegations that two Montreal-area centres are being used as Chinese state-backed “police stations” to intimidate or harass Canadians of Chinese origin.

TBILISI, (Reuters) – Georgia’s ruling party said yesterday it was withdrawing a bill on “foreign agents” after two nights of violent protests against what opponents called a Russian-inspired authoritarian shift that imperilled hopes Georgia joining the European Union.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia launched a huge wave of missile strikes across Ukraine while people slept today, killing at least six civilians, knocking out electricity and forcing a nuclear power plant off the grid.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia today arrested former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and will charge him with graft, the country’s anti-corruption agency said.