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KYIV/BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy said his government was expecting “strong decisions” from defence leaders of NATO and other countries meeting today to discuss boosting Ukraine’s ability to confront Russian forces with modern battle tanks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Groups of Americans will be able to directly sponsor refugees for resettlement in the United States under a new program announced yesterday, a major shift that could bolster admissions and reduce government costs.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Senior officials in India’s government have said they want to have a bigger role in choosing judges, a demand several lawyers and judges say threatens the independence of the judiciary.

(Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda’s ruling party held on to power in the Caribbean nation’s general elections, according to results released yesterday, securing a third term for Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

(Reuters) – David Crosby, one of the most influential rock musicians of the 1960s and ’70s and who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with two different groups, has died at the age of 81.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s foreign ministry today dismissed a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi which questioned his leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots as “propaganda”.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, warned NATO today that the defeat of Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last night made a shock announcement she had “no more in the tank” to continue leading the country and would step down no later than early February and not seek re-election.

BROVARY, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s interior minister and a child were among at least 14 people killed yesterday when a helicopter crashed into a nursery and set it ablaze in a suburb of the capital Kyiv.

DAVOS, Switzerland,  (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp MSFT.O yesterday said it would eliminate 10,000 jobs and take a $1.2 billion charge to earnings, as its cloud-computing customers reassess their spending and the company braces for potential recession.

BULIISA, Uganda,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ugandan environmental campaigner Judith Bero-Irwoth has spent years warning of the risks of a planned crude oil pipeline and its impact on communities in the west of the country.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s Supreme Court ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to remove a senior minister over a past tax fraud conviction, in a setback for the new right-wing coalition government.

(CNBC) U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today condemned fossil fuel giants for ignoring their own climate science, accusing the oil and gas industry of seeking to expand production despite knowing “full well” that their business model is incompatible with human survival.

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Moderna MRNA.Ochief executive Stephane Bancel said today the U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine has taken a step closer to winning approval for German-made modern battle tanks to confront invading Russian forces and has secured a pledge of more Patriot defence missiles as its allies appear ready to rally for the next phase of the war.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned after the ruling Communist Party blamed him for “violations and wrongdoing” by officials under his control, the government said yesterday, in a major escalation of the country’s anti-graft campaign.

(Reuters) – A failed Republican candidate in New Mexico was charged yesterday with contracting four gunmen to shoot at the homes of Democratic officials after he visited them to dispute his 2022 election defeat.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Ontario’s plan to rely more on private operators for public health services has some doctors and patient advocates worried it could put patients at risk of exploitation and steal workers away from a public system facing a staffing shortage.

(Reuters) – Apple Inc AAPL.O yesterday unveiled MacBooks powered by its new and faster M2 Pro and M2 Max chips in a surprise launch weeks ahead of its usual schedule.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, a sultry Mediterranean diva who came to represent Italy’s vibrant rebirth after World War Two, has died aged 95, her former lawyer said yesterday.