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LONDON,  (Reuters) – A serving London police officer has admitted carrying out 24 counts of rape in a near two decade-long campaign of abuse against women, making him one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders.

(Reuters) – Six people including a six-month-old baby cradled in the arms of her 17-year-old mother were shot dead at a home in California’s main agricultural valley yesterday in what authorities called a targeted attack and “horrific massacre.”

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Mursal Nabizada, a former female member of Afghanistan’s parliament, has been killed by unknown gunmen at her home in Kabul, police said.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italian investigators knew a lot of things about mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.

DNIPRO, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine insisted on the need for faster supplies of weapons from the West with the central city of Dnipro reeling from a Russian missile strike that killed at least 40 people in an apartment block and Ukrainian troops came under increased pressure on the eastern front.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s population fell last year for the first time since 1961, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers and see India become the world’s most populous nation in 2023.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A serving London police officer has admitted carrying out 24 counts of rape in a near two decade-long campaign of abuse against women, making him one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders.

PALERMO, Italy,  (Reuters) – Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily today, where the man who has been on the run since 1993 was being treated for cancer.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight of Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation.

DNIPRO, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine saw little hope of pulling any more survivors from the rubble of an apartment block in the city of Dnipro on Sunday, a day after the building was hit during a major Russian missile attack, with dozens of people expected to have died.

(CNN) R’Bonney Gabriel from the United States was crowned the 71st Miss Universe on Saturday night.

KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – At least 68 people were killed today when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the country’s Civil Aviation Authority said, in the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China said yesterday nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge increase from previously reported figures that follows global criticism of the country’s coronavirus data.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office said late yesterday that Britain would send 14 of its main battle tanks along with additional artillery support to Ukraine, disregarding criticism from the Russian Embassy in London.

TEL AVIV,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated yesterday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reform plans, with organisers accusing him of undermining democratic rule weeks after his reelection.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesia has deployed a warship to its North Natuna Sea to monitor a Chinese coast guard vessel that has been active in a resource-rich maritime area, the country’s naval chief said on Saturday of an area that both countries claim as their own.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China said today nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge increase from previously reported figures that follows global criticism of the country’s coronavirus data.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden told Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida yesterday the United States was “fully, thoroughly, completely” committed to Japan’s defense and praised Tokyo’s security build up, saying the nations had never been closer.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said yesterday the United States will likely hit the $31.4 trillion statutory debt limit on Jan.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu defended yesterday a proposed shakeup of the judiciary but also indicated changes could be made to draft legislation that critics say would damage democracy and the independence of courts.