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LONDON, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has set Russia on a path towards turmoil that could unseat the Kremlin chief, trigger civil war or even break the country apart, said a Russian diplomat who resigned over the war.

LONDON, (Reuters) – New finance minister Jeremy Hunt scrapped Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic plan and scaled back her vast energy subsidy today, launching one of the biggest U-turns in British fiscal policy to stem a dramatic loss of investor confidence.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones today, killing at least three people in an apartment building in downtown Kyiv during morning rush hour, and targeting infrastructure across the country in the second big wave of air strikes in a week.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping called for accelerating the building of a world-class military while touting the fight against COVID-19 as he kicked off a Communist Party Congress by focussing on security and reiterating policy priorities.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ordered an investigation on Monday into the Unification Church, after the assassination of former premier Shinzo Abe in July revealed close ties between it and the ruling party.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping called for accelerating the building of a world-class military while touting the fight against COVID-19 as he kicked off a Communist Party Congress by focussing on security and reiterating policy priorities.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A fire broke out on Saturday in Tehran’s Evin prison, where many of Iran’s political and dual-national detainees are held, and witnesses reported hearing gunfire.

(Reuters) – Two women have been charged with criminal damage after climate change protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers” at London’s National Gallery, British police said on Saturday.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Saturday he had summoned the U.S.

(Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead 11 people at a Russian military training ground on Saturday, the defence ministry said, in the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin’s forces since the invasion of Ukraine.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The mayor of a small northern Mexican town and a group of local officials kidnapped by armed men have been freed, the governor of the border state of Coahuila said on Saturday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – At least 20 people were killed and 14 more injured on Saturday when a bus crashed on a road between the southwestern Colombian cities of Pasto and Popayan, police said.

 (Reuters) – At least 11 people were killed and 15 more wounded at a Russian military training ground today when two attackers opened fire on a group of volunteers who wished to fight in Ukraine, RIA news agency said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker sparred over a range of issues from abortion and policing to personal integrity on Friday, as a key Georgia contest that could help determine control of the Senate came to a head in a contentious televised debate.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the market and political turmoil gripping the country.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Reinsurer AXIS Capital AXS.N said it would refuse to underwrite energy, mining and other projects that did not have the backing of local indigenous communities, in a move welcomed by campaigners as setting a new industry standard.

(Reuters) – Some of oilfield service firm Schlumberger’s SLB.N more than 9,000 Russian employees have begun receiving military draft notices through work, and the company is not authorizing remote employment to escape mobilization, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – Two brothers were each sentenced to 40 years in prison yesterday after admitting to the murder of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in a stunning turnaround on the first day of their trial.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday said that no one should dare think they can uproot the Islamic Republic, in his toughest warning to protesters since Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody ignited nationwide unrest now in its fourth week.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish actor who played the beloved half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, died yesterday at the age of 72, his agent said.