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HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban firefighters, planes and Defense Force helicopters were working yesterday to extinguish a large-scale forest fire which has been raging for seven days on the east of the island.

VALLETTA, (Reuters) – A Maltese court yesterday struck down a highly controversial 2015 deal under which the then government granted management of three hospitals to an international group with no experience in the medical sector.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China wants to prevent the Russia-Ukraine crisis from getting out of control and said today dialogue and negotiation are the only viable ways to resolve the crisis.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The war in Ukraine entered its second year yesterday with no end in sight and Russia isolated at the United Nations in a vote demanding its forces withdraw, while G7 leaders are set to coordinate on more help for Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden nominated former Mastercard Inc MA.N

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is set to expand the number of troops helping train Taiwanese forces, two U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – American billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee, considered a pioneer of private equity investment and leveraged buyouts, died at the age of 78, his family said in a statement yesterday, without noting the cause of his death.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament imposed sweeping 50-year sanctions today on Russian financial institutions including the central bank, all commercial banks, investment funds, insurers and other enterprises.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a violation of the founding U.N.

MOSCOW/WARSAW, (Reuters) – China pledged a deeper partnership with Russia yesterday as U.S.

WARSAW,  (Reuters) – The Czech Republic has supplied hundreds of pieces of heavy military equipment to Ukraine over the past year, including 89 tanks, and will continue supporting efforts to aid Kyiv, the country’s prime minister said on Wednesday.

NABLUS, West Bank, (Reuters) – Israeli troops killed 11 Palestinians, including at least four gunmen and four civilians, and wounded over 100 others during a raid on a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses, militant groups and medical officials said.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – A California man was sentenced on Wednesday to at least 60 years in prison for the 2019 killing of Grammy-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle after a chance encounter in the south Los Angeles neighborhood where the men grew up.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said today that China’s Xi Jinping would visit Russia, saying relations had reached “new frontiers” amid U.S.

NABLUS, West Bank, (Reuters) – Israeli troops killed nine Palestinians, including at least three gunmen and three civilians, and wounded over 90 others during a raid on a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses and medical officials said.

WARSAW/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been sparring verbally, presenting starkly different views of the world and the Ukraine war, Biden promising to defend democracies and Putin asserting the West was a threat to Russia.

(Reuters) – Democrat Jennifer McClellan won a special election for the U.S.

(Reuters) – Societe Generale SA SOGN.PA agreed to pay $157 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the French bank and several other banks of contributing to imprisoned Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford’s estimated $7.2 billion fraud.

HAVANA, Cuba,  (Reuters) – Cuba yesterday suffered its third major blackout in little more than a week, leaving a vast swath of the center and east of the island without power, energy officials said on state-run TV.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States could bar tens of thousands of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico