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JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged yesterday a “strong, swift and precise” response to a deadly Palestinian shooting attack near a synagogue on Jerusalem’s outskirts, as its military sent more troops into the occupied West Bank.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (Reuters) – The specialized police unit that included at least some of the Memphis officers involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols was disbanded yesterday as more protests took place in U.S.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s deadly flood emergency continued yesterday after heavy rainfall hit the country’s north island, causing landslides, flash floods and knocking out roads.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A loud explosion at a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan was caused by an “unsuccessful” drone attack, Iranian state media reported yesterday, citing the defence ministry.

BEIRUT, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rights groups have accused the Saudi Arabian government of “infiltrating” and seeking to control Wikipedia, after the Wikimedia Foundation banned 16 users for engaging in “conflict of interest editing” in the Middle East and North Africa.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia seized more cocaine in 2022 than any other year on record, the South American country’s defense ministry reported yesterday.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spanish police seized 4.5 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of 105 million euros ($114 million) after raiding a cattle ship off the Canary Islands earlier this week, a statement said today.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.,  (Reuters) – The city of Memphis released shocking, graphic video footage yesterday of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, and the five police officers charged with murder in his beating death after a traffic stop earlier this month.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States has secured a deal with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chip-making machinery to China in talks that concluded yesterday, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

JERUSALEM/GAZA, (Reuters) – A Palestinian gunman killed seven people and wounded three others in a synagogue on the outskirts of Jerusalem yesterday in an attack that heightened fears of a spiral in bloodshed, a day after the deadliest Israeli raid in the West Bank in years.

NEAR VUHLEDAR, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine yesterday battled Russian troops trying to pierce its lines in the east and northeast, and artillery bombardments intensified after Western allies promised the Kyiv government it would send them tanks to repel the invaders.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Shares of India’s Adani Enterprises ADEL.NS plunged yesterday after a scathing report by a U.S.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Shares of India’s Adani Enterprises ADEL.NS plunged today after a scathing report by a U.S.

JENIN, West Bank,  (Reuters) – Israeli commandos killed seven gunmen and two civilians in a raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank yesterday, Palestinian officials said, stirring fear of further flare-ups after the largest single death toll in years of fighting.

(Reuters) – Five former Memphis police officers were charged yesterday with murder in the death of a Black motorist, Tyre Nichols, from injuries he sustained in a violent encounter following a traffic stop, prosecutors said.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian civilians raced for cover yesterday as Russia fired a barrage of missiles and drones across the country, killing at least 11 people, according to officials, a day after Kyiv won Western pledges of battlefield tanks to combat Moscow’s invasion.

(Reuters) – Fiji’s president yesterday suspended the commissioner of police after a general election saw the first change in government in the Pacific island nation in 16 years, after the military earlier warned against “sweeping changes”.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. military carried out an operation that killed a senior Islamic State leader in northern Somalia, U.S.

JENIN, West Bank, (Reuters) – Israeli commandos killed seven gunmen and two civilians in a raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank today, Palestinian officials said, stirring fear of further flare-ups after the largest single death toll in years of fighting.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India showcased its military and its cultural diversity in a colourful parade today at the revamped colonial avenue in New Delhi to mark Republic Day, the anniversary of the day the country’s secular Constitution came into effect in 1950.