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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government on Tuesday said it will allot spectrum for satellite broadband administratively and not via auction, hours after Elon Musk criticized the auction route being sought by rival billionaire Mukesh Ambani as “unprecedented”.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Millions of people across southern Africa are facing the worst food crisis in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, warning that its ability to provide relief risks being stymied by funding shortfalls.

(Reuters) Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused South Korea on Monday of boosting tension in its relations with the Communist North and called for diplomacy in restoring calm and security on the Korean peninsula.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s courts on Tuesday declined to stop this week’s Senate vote on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s impeachment from going ahead.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The fight over how India should allocate satellite broadband spectrum intensified today as Elon Musk said any move by New Delhi to auction it, rather than allocate it, would be “unprecedented”, challenging the position of rival billionaires.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel expanded its targets in its war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people in an airstrike in the north, health officials said, while millions of Israelis took shelter from projectiles fired back across the border.

NEW DELHI/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada expelled six top Indian diplomats and consular officials in relation to an investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia, its foreign ministry said on Monday.

(Reuters) – Sean “Diddy” Combs was confronted with six new sexual abuse lawsuits on Monday, including one accusing the rap mogul of assaulting a minor.

CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 12 people were killed and 33 injured in Egypt on Monday after a bus overturned on a highway connecting Cairo to the Red Sea coast, the Egyptian health ministry said.

NEW DELHI/OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada expelled six Indian diplomats including the high commissioner today, linking them to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in Canada.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize today for their research into why global inequality persists, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s High Commissioner to Canada and other Indian diplomats there are “persons of interest” in a matter related to a Canadian investigation, the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement today, citing a diplomatic communication from the country.

JERUSALEM/NEW YORK  (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Sunday Israeli tanks had burst through the gates of a base of its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, the latest accusation of Israeli violations and attacks denounced by its own allies.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s former finance and labour minister and first Black central bank governor Tito Mboweni has died aged 65 following a brief illness, the presidency said late on Saturday.

MADRID (Reuters) – The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said yesterday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.

KARACHI (Reuters) – The Baloch Liberation Army, a militant separatist group in Pakistan, denied involvement in an attack that killed at least 21 mine workers, condemning the violence.

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, the health ministry said on Sunday, without specifying which variant had been recorded.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump pledged today to hire an extra 10,000 border patrol agents if he is reelected as president, as he intensifies his attacks on Kamala Harris on the issue of immigration.

JERUSALEM/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United Nations said today Israeli tanks had burst through the gates of a base of its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, the latest accusation of Israeli violations and attacks that have been denounced by Israel’s own allies.

MADRID, (Reuters) – The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said yesterday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.