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LONDON,  (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt yesterday unveiled plans to increase a windfall tax on oil and gas companies and extend it to power generation firms in an effort to raise tens of billions of pounds to plug a major hole in public finances.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian missiles and shells hit Ukrainian positions in several regions and there was no let up in heavy fighting in Donetsk in the east, the Ukrainian military said last night as Moscow’s occupying forces appeared more active.

(Reuters) – The Biden administration has determined that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has legal immunity from a lawsuit filed against him over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the U.S.

(Reuters) – A U.S. agency seeking to restore habitat for endangered fish gave final approval yesterday to decommission four dams straddling the California-Oregon border, the largest dam removal undertaking in U.S.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry yesterday said Chinese President Xi Jinping was not criticising Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after Xi was seen confronting him at the G20 summit over alleged leaks from an informal meeting they had held on Tuesday.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest announced yesterday a $500 million commitment towards the launch of a $25 billion international investment fund designed to help Ukraine rebuild after Russia’s invasion.

(Reuters) – A deal aimed at easing global food shortages by helping Ukraine export its agricultural products from Black Sea ports was extended for four months yesterday, though Russia said its own demands were yet to be fully addressed.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – A Dutch court said today that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in 2014 by a Russian-made missile fired from a field in eastern Ukraine and that Russia had overall control of separatist forces at the time when the plane was shot down.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced a string of tax increases and tighter public spending in a tough budget plan today that he said was needed after the blow dealt to the country’s fiscal reputation by former prime minister Liz Truss.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans were projected to win a majority in the U.S.

KYIV/PRZEWODOW, Poland/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Ukraine said it faced fierce fighting in the east from Russian troops that withdrew from Kherson in the south, while NATO and Poland concluded a missile that crashed in Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – NASA’s next-generation rocketship was on course today for a crewless voyage around the moon and back, launched from Florida on its debut flight half a century after the final lunar mission of the Apollo era.

(Reuters) – The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Moscow, the Kremlin and Cuba’s ambassador to Russia said yesterday.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – A missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and not a Russian strike, Poland and NATO said today, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – NASA’s next-generation rocketship was on course today for a crewless voyage around the moon and back, launched from Florida on its debut flight half a century after the final lunar mission of the Apollo era.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said today he has requested an independent investigation into two formal complaints about his behaviour, the latest case of alleged bullying to put pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Poland is likely to request consultations under NATO’s Article 4 after a missile, reportedly Russian-made, struck Polish territory near the border with Ukraine, and raise the issue at a U.N.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday ruled a pandemic-era order used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants to Mexico was unlawful, a decision that could have major implications for U.S.

PALM BEACH, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of U.S.

LAGOS,  (Reuters) – Nigeria has approved the construction of a 1,650 megawatt (MW) hydropower plant at a cost of $3 billion, making it one of the single biggest power projects in the country, the vice president’s spokesperson said yesterday.