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LISBON, (Reuters) – At least 4,815 children were sexually abused by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church – mostly priests – over the past 70 years, a commission investigating the issue said in its final report today.

ANTAKYA/ELBISTAN, Turkey, (Reuters) – Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain order across the disaster zone and began legal action over building collapses.

JERUSALEM  (Reuters) – Israel’s president floated a compromise plan on Sunday to spare the country what he described as a “constitutional collapse” and possible violence, over a contested judicial overhaul sought by the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday spoke of his concern over the imprisonment of Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Alvarez, who was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison in the Latin American country.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police on Sunday arrested two former judges who were dismissed by President Kais Saied last year, a lawyer and local media said, in the second day of a wave of detentions of prominent people, including politicians and a businessman.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – More than 30,000 homes were without power in New Zealand’s upper North Island on Monday as Auckland and nearby regions were hit by strong winds, heavy rain and huge swells as cyclone Gabrielle nears.

ANTAKYA, Turkey,  (Reuters) – Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble today six days after one of the worst earthquakes to hit Turkey and Syria, as Turkish authorities sought to maintain order across the disaster zone and began legal action over some building collapses.

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Canadian investigators are hunting for the wreckage of the mysterious flying object shot down by a U.S.

PHNOM PENH,  (Reuters) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the shutdown of the last independent local news organization in the country on Sunday night, saying it had attacked him and his son and hurt the country.

ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria,  (Reuters) – Exhausted rescuers pulled dwindling numbers of survivors from earthquake rubble in Turkey and Syria yesterday five days after one of the region’s worst natural disasters whose death toll neared 26,000 and looked set to rise far higher.

LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s forces hold defence along the frontline in Donetsk, including of the besieged town of Bakhmut, with the fiercest battles raging for the cities of Vuhledar and Maryinka, Kyiv’s top military commander said on Saturday.

(Reuters) – The Islamic Republic marked the 44th anniversary of the Iranian revolution yesterday with state-organised rallies, as anti-government hackers briefly interrupted a televised speech by President Ebrahim Raisi.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die Linke party said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 94, his publicist told Reuters on Thursday.

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – A U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down an unidentified cylindrical object over Canada on Saturday, the second such shootdown in as many days, as North America appeared on heightened alert following a week-long Chinese spying balloon saga that drew the global spotlight.

KIRIKHAN, Turkey, (Reuters) – A woman died in hospital today a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey, where she had been trapped for 104 hours since Monday’s devastating earthquake, rescuers said.

ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria,  (Reuters) – Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey yesterday and dug several people out from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week’s huge earthquake.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. F-22 fighter jet yesterday shot down an unidentified object flying over Alaska, U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian missiles hit power facilities yesterday across Ukraine, where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returned from a tour of Western capitals and Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was underway in the east.

BENGALURU/PARIS,  (Reuters) – Air India has sealed a jumbo deal for about 500 new planes worth more than $100 billion at list prices, in what could become the single largest order by any airline as it seeks to reinvent itself under its new owners, industry sources told Reuters.