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ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on Kurdish militant bases in northern Syria and northern Iraq on Sunday, destroying 89 targets, Turkey’s defence ministry said, in retaliation for a bomb attack in Istanbul that killed six people one week ago.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of feeding anti-French propaganda in Africa to serve “predatory” ambitions in troubled African nations, where France has suffered military setbacks and a wider loss of influence over recent years.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwean health workers have left the country in droves over the past year, a senior official at the Health Services Board (HSB) revealed on Sunday.

ROME,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ Security Council needs to take “significant measures” in response to the latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch by North Korea, foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations said yesterday.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, (Reuters) – Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the COP27 climate summit early today that sets up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters – but does not boost efforts to tackle the emissions causing them.

(Reuters) – Five people were killed and 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub on Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado, police said.

(Reuters) – Negotiators at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt neared a breakthrough deal on Saturday for a fund to help poor countries being ravaged by the impacts of global warming, but remained locked over how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions driving them.

(Reuters) – Malaysia was facing a hung parliament for the first time in its history as support for a conservative Islamic alliance prevented major coalitions from winning a simple majority in a general election.

(Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor, to serve as special counsel to oversee Justice Department investigations related to Donald Trump including the former president’s handling of sensitive documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

(Reuters) – A New York Times report of a former anti-abortion leader’s claim that he was told in advance about the outcome of a major 2014 U.S.

(Reuters) – Negotiators at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt neared a breakthrough deal today for a fund to help poor countries being ravaged by the impacts of global warming, but remained locked over how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions driving them.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made his first visit to Kyiv today, pledging to continue the firm support for Ukraine that was a focus of his predecessors, and providing a new air defence package to help shoot down Russian drones.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt,  (Reuters) – Negotiators were poised to make a final push for a deal at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt today, as persistent disagreements over money forced the two-week talks into overtime.

LISBON, (Reuters) – Global police agency Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for Angolan billionaire and daughter of the country’s former president Isabel dos Santos, Portugal’s Lusa news agency reported yesterday.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to counter U.S.

KYIV/KHERSON, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian missile strikes have crippled almost half of Ukraine’s energy system, the government said  yesterday, and authorities in the capital Kyiv warned that the city could face a “complete shutdown” of the power grid as winter sets in.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. congressman Hakeem Jeffries yesterday formally launched a bid to become the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, a day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she was giving up her leadership role.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana’s finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta said yesterday he was “truly sorry” for the country’s economic hardship but defended himself against accusations by lawmakers that he is unfit for the job.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmaker Hakeem Jeffries launched a bid today to become Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, a day after the chamber’s speaker, Nancy Pelosi, announced she was stepping down from their party’s leadership role.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, (Reuters) – Climate negotiators today were mulling a European Union proposal aimed at resolving an impasse over financing for countries hit by climate-fuelled disasters and pushing the U.N.