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NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Delhi’s 20 million residents were effectively breathing smoke today as the air quality index (AQI) breached the “severe” and “hazardous” categories in nearly all monitoring stations of the Indian capital, raising calls to close schools.

LAHORE, (Reuters) – Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was wounded in the shin today when his convoy was shot at in the country’s east on Thursday, an aide said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Employees and agents of a British subsidiary of mining and trading group Glencore GLEN.L

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said yesterday that threats by some Republican candidates to refuse to accept results from the Nov.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – The Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray agreed yesterday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough two years into a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and left hundreds of thousands facing famine.

(Reuters) – Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 students and staff with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school, was formally sentenced to life in prison yesterday after listening to hours of anguished testimony from survivors and victims’ relatives.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada’s government ordered three Chinese firms yesterday to divest their investments in Canadian critical minerals companies on grounds of national security.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry said yesterday that offices set up in the Netherlands were not police stations but rather centres to help Chinese citizens renew documents, a day after the Dutch government ordered their closure amidst a probe into their activities.

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JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s former premier Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that his right wing, religious camp was on the cusp of a great election win, after exit polls predicted his bloc gaining a slim parliamentary majority that would pave the way for his comeback.

KYIV/MYKOLAIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The world must respond firmly to any Russian attempts to disrupt Ukraine’s grain export corridor, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as more ships were loading despite Moscow suspending its participation in a U.N.-brokered

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – The United States and United Arab Emirates have reached an agreement to spend $100 billion on clean energy projects with a goal of adding 100 gigawatts globally by 2035, U.S.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s attorney general has detained seven people, including former officials, as part of an investigation into suspected corruption in state oil company Petroecuador, it said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Rapper Takeoff, a member of the influential, Atlanta-based rap group Migos, was shot and killed at a party held at a Houston bowling alley early yesterday.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch government intends to levy a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies retroactively for the year 2022, it said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Home Secretary Suella Braverman faced heavy criticism today for describing the arrival of asylum seekers as an invasion, with lawmakers across the political spectrum warning of the risk of using inflammatory language.

(Reuters) – Serial entrepreneur Oleg Tinkov has renounced his Russian citizenship, saying he does not want to be associated with “fascism” or people who collaborate with “killers”.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and a decision to freeze participation in a Black Sea grain export programme were responses to a drone attack on Moscow’s fleet in Crimea that he blamed on Ukraine.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – The man accused of bludgeoning U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer after forcing his way into the couple’s home threatened to take her hostage and break her kneecaps if she lied under his questioning, according to a federal criminal complaint filed yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump’s real estate company cheated tax authorities for 15 years, a prosecutor said yesterday in her opening statement in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial, while defense lawyers countered that the company’s longtime chief financial officer had acted for his own benefit.