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LONDON,  (Reuters) – Child sex abuse is epidemic in Britain, affecting millions of victims, and those who work with young people should be prosecuted if they fail to report it, a seven-year public inquiry concluded on Thursday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Liz Truss said today she would resign as British prime minister, brought down just six weeks into the job by an economic programme that roiled financial markets, pushed up living costs for voters and enraged much of her own party.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration said yesterday it is awarding $2.8 billion in grants to boost U.S.

(Reuters) – Ukraine is restricting electricity usage nationwide for the first time yesterday following a barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks that have destroyed some power plants just before the cold winter months set in.

(Reuters) – Oilfield services provider Schlumberger SLB.N is evaluating unspecified options for its thousands of Russian employees as the war in Ukraine escalates, Chief Executive Olivier Le Peuch told Reuters an interview.

KYIV/MIKOLAIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin introduced martial law today in four Ukrainian regions he says are part of Russia as some residents of the Russian-held city of Kherson left by boat after Moscow warned of a looming assault.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s opposition Congress party declared veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge its new chief today, the first person from outside the influential Nehru-Gandhi family to hold the beleaguered party’s presidency in 24 years.

ANTANANARIVO, (Reuters) – Madagascar’s president has fired his foreign affairs minister for voting at the United Nations to condemn Russian-organised referendums to annex four partially-occupied regions in Ukraine, two sources at the president’s office said.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine made a rare acknowledgment of the pressures they were under from Ukrainian offensives to retake southern and eastern areas that Moscow claims to have annexed just weeks ago.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Germany’s interior ministry fired the country’s cybersecurity chief yesterday and launched an investigation into his conduct after media allegations that he may have come into contact with Russian security circles through a consultancy he co-founded.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell yesterday denied that comments he made last week were racist and apologised for any offence caused by the remarks that had prompted criticism from the United Arab Emirates.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, under pressure over high inflation, sought to mobilize his left-leaning base yesterday by promising to sign a law to codify abortion rights in January if Democrats control the legislature next year.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Mali’s foreign affairs minister yesterday said the military government would exercise its right to self-defence if France continued to undermine the West African country’s sovereignty and national security.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, under renewed pressure over high inflation with mid-term elections approaching, said today he will sign a law to codify abortion rights in January if Democrats control the legislature next year.

KYIV/MYKOLAIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said Russia had destroyed almost a third of its power stations over the past week as Moscow stepped up a pre-winter campaign to strike infrastructure, a move the West says is a calculated attempt to disrupt and demoralise.

ALMATY, (Reuters) – Sensing that Russia has been weakened by its war in Ukraine, some of its closest allies in Central Asia are displaying a newly assertive streak.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration has spoken with energy companies as it considers a plan to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to both push down oil prices for consumers and support longer-term demand for producers, two sources familiar with the matter said.

KYIV/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will hold Russia accountable for “war crimes”, the White House said on Monday, hours after Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones during morning rush hour, killing at least four people in an apartment building in Kyiv.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s government bonds, currency and shares rallied yesterday as new finance minister Jeremy Hunt reversed much of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic growth plan, the latest twist after several weeks of turmoil in UK politics and markets.

(Reuters) – The world’s largest financial institutions increased their backing of companies in the agriculture, forestry and land use sectors most responsible for deforestation in 2021, a new study showed on Tuesday.