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BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – Mali said yesterday that its capital Bamako was under control after insurgents attacked a gendarmerie training school and other strategic areas before dawn, firing gunshots that reverberated around the city.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe plans to cull 200 elephants to feed communities facing acute hunger after the worst drought in four decades, wildlife authorities said on Tuesday.

PHILADELPHIA,  (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris called today for an end to the Israel-Gaza war and said that Israel must not reoccupy the Palestinian enclave once the nearly year-old conflict comes to an end.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s ruling Liberal Party lost a once-safe seat in a Montreal parliamentary constituency, preliminary results showed today, a result likely to put more pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to quit.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A man suspected of hiding for nearly 12 hours in an apparent attempt to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course was charged with two gun-related crimes yesterday, a day after authorities say he was spotted in the bushes with a rifle as the former U.S.

GANDHINAGAR, India,  (Reuters) – India will connect a record 35 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind energy capacity to its grid during the year ending March 2025, a top bureaucrat told Reuters, as it scrambles to achieve its 2030 clean energy target after falling short of a much publicised 2022 renewables goal.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – The Finnish government is happy for Sweden to lead the establishment of NATO land forces in Finland to boost defences against neighbouring Russia, the two Nordic countries said yesterday.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Lower voter turnout and increasingly contested results globally are threatening the credibility of elections, an intergovernmental watchdog warned yesterday, as its sub-index for free and fair elections suffered its biggest decline on record in 2023.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel yesterday expanded its stated goals of the war in Gaza to include enabling residents to return to communities in northern Israel that have been evacuated due to attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former British TV presenter Huw Edwards, the long-time face of the BBC’s flagship news programme, was given a suspended sentence at a London court yesterday after admitting making indecent images of children.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana has lost more than a third of its 2023/24 cocoa output to smuggling, a top official from the cocoa marketing board (Cocobod) told Reuters, as low local prices and payment delays push some farmers to sell to increasingly sophisticated trafficking rings.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Tito Jackson, founding member of the popular Black American Motown group The Jackson 5 with his brothers, died on Sunday at the age of 70, his family said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A man suspected of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump appeared in federal court today, where he was charged with two gun-related crimes a day after being spotted with a rifle hiding in the bushes at the former U.S.

KYIV (Reuters) – European governments should halt welfare benefits to Ukrainian men of military age who are living in their countries, Poland’s foreign minister said, a measure he said would help Ukraine call up more troops to fight Russian forces.

JESENIK, Czech Republic/WARSAW (Reuters) – The death toll from flooding in central Europe rose to eight on Sunday as thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the Czech Republic following days of torrential rain that caused rivers to burst their banks in several parts of the region.

MORONI (Reuters) – Comoros president Azali Assoumani is “out of danger” after he was injured on Friday in a knife attack by a 24-year-old policeman who was found dead in his cell a day later, officials said on Saturday.

(Reuters) – Myanmar’s death toll from floods rose to at least 113 as of Saturday evening, the country’s military government said on Sunday, following heavy rains brought on by Typhoon Yagi that has caused havoc across parts of Southeast Asia.

(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe today after what the FBI said appeared to be a second assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Photos of North Korea’s its uranium enrichment facility may show an undeclared site for building nuclear bombs just outside of its capital, analysts said.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a “heavy price” on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile today  for the first time.