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(Reuters) – Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is preparing to row back on her plan to make the next general election in 2024 a “de facto referendum” on Scottish independence, The Times reported on Saturday.

(Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc PFE.N and German partner BioNTech’s BNTX.O

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The British government’s funding of up to $1.15 billion for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique is lawful, a London court ruled yesterday, dismissing an appeal by Friends of the Earth.

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – Uganda has terminated its contract with Chinese firm China Harbour and Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) to build a railway to the Kenyan border and is now considering a deal with a Turkish company, a senior official told Reuters yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – In the twilight of the Soviet Union, Yevgeny Prigozhin was languishing in prison for theft.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Elvis Presley, died on Thursday at the age of 54 after being rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital, her mother said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s own administration named a special counsel to probe the improper storage of classified documents at his home and a former office yesterday, an embarrassing echo of a wider-ranging inquiry directed at his main political rival, Donald Trump.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that the head of state oil giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company would lead this year’s COP28 climate summit, fuelling activists’ worries that big industry is hijacking the global response to environmental crisis.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia is building up its forces in Ukraine but Ukrainian forces are holding out in fierce fighting for the eastern town of Soledar, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – A strike involving over 7,000 nurses at two New York City hospitals has ended after three days, as they reached tentative deals with hospitals over staffing levels, the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) said today.

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The U.S. aviation sector was struggling to return to normal yesterday after a nationwide ground stop imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over a computer issue that forced a 90-minute halt to all U.S.

KYIV/NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russia ordered its top general yesterday to take charge of its faltering invasion of Ukraine in the biggest shake-up yet of its malfunctioning military command structure after months of battlefield setbacks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States and Japan yesterday announced stepped-up security cooperation in the face of shared worries about China, and Washington strongly endorsed a major military buildup Tokyo announced last month.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – A U.N. special rapporteur on human rights defenders yesterday called for an independent investigation into the killing of two environmental activists in Honduras, who had opposed an illegal mine polluting water supplies in a national reserve.

(Reuters) – U.S. flights were delayed and airports told passengers to check with their airlines for updates today as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 in the United States, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump and the star prosecution witness in the criminal trial of the former president’s real estate company, was sentenced yesterday to five months behind bars for helping engineer a wide-ranging tax fraud at the Trump Organization.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Chevron Corp’s CVX.N first cargo of Venezuelan crude under a U.S.

KYIV/NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s eastern salt mining town of Soledar hung in the balance as Russia’s mercenary firm Wagner claimed control, but continued fighting and Kyiv’s assertion earlier that its forces were holding out raised uncertainty.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s top prosecutor’s office yesterday said it launched an inquiry into new President Dina Boluarte and members of her cabinet over violent clashes that have seen at least 40 killed and hundreds injured since early December.