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(Reuters) – Russia is likely removing nuclear warheads from ageing nuclear cruise missiles and firing unarmed munitions at Ukraine, Britain’s military intelligence said on Saturday.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today Iran’s Basij militia forces have sacrificed their lives in what he called riots, the wave of protests sparked by the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in September.

(Reuters) – The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies HWT.UL

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday defended invoking emergency powers to end anti-government protests that paralyzed the capital earlier this year, citing the threat of violence and lack of a credible plan by police.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities yesterday gradually restored power, aided by the reconnection of the country’s four nuclear plants, but millions of people were still in the dark after the most devastating Russian air strikes of the war.

BLANTYRE, (Reuters) – Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested and charged the country’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said yesterday, following months of investigation over his conduct.

HAI PHONG, Vietnam, (Reuters) – Vietnam’s electric vehicle maker VinFast said yesterday it had shipped its first batch of 999 cars to the United States, capping a five-year bid to develop an auto production hub in the Southeast Asian country for markets in North America and Europe.

(Reuters) – A Walmart supervisor who killed six co-workers at a store in Virginia on Tuesday bought a handgun the day of the shooting and left a rambling note on his cellphone in which he railed against other employees who he felt had mocked and betrayed him.

BLANTYRE, (Reuters) – Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested the country’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said today.

HAI PHONG, Vietnam, (Reuters) – Vietnam’s electric vehicle maker VinFast said today it had shipped its first batch of 999 cars to the United States, capping a five-year bid to develop an auto production hub in the Southeast Asian country for markets in North America and Europe.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister yesterday, capping a three-decade political journey from a protege of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad to protest leader, a prisoner convicted of sodomy and opposition leader.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Much of Ukraine yesterday remained without heat or power after the most devastating Russian air strikes on its energy grid so far, and in Kyiv residents were warned to brace for further attacks and stock up on water, food and warm clothing.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana’s government is working on a new policy to buy oil products with gold rather than U.S.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele promised yesterday to tighten security around major cities, the latest escalation of an eight-month-old war against gang violence which human rights groups say is marred by unjustified detentions.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister today, capping a three-decade political journey from a protege of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad to protest leader, a prisoner convicted of sodomy and opposition leader.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Imports of sugar from a company in the Dominican Republic will be blocked at all U.S.

WINDHOEK,  (Reuters) – A large crane lifted a colonial-era statue of German official Curt von Francois in Namibian capital Windhoek yesterday, as a crowd that gathered nearby clapped and hooted in delight.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The German government plans to introduce a special levy to skim off 33% of windfall profits made by oil, coal and gas companies, which could generate revenue of between one and three billion euros, finance ministry sources told Reuters.

(Reuters) – Some two in five of Haiti’s growing number of cholera cases are among children, the United Nation’s children’s agency warned yesterday, saying youth suffering from severe malnutrition ran three times the risk of dying from the bacterial disease.

WASHINGTON/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the United Nations Security Council to act against Russia over air strikes on civilian infrastructure that again plunged Ukrainian cities into darkness and cold as winter sets in.