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LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng today 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.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French food company Danone DANO.PA will shed control of its dairy food business in Russia in a deal that could lead to a write-off of up to 1 billion euros ($978 million), it said today.

VALLETTA, (Reuters) – Two men went on trial today for the murder of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia almost five years ago to the day she died in a car bomb.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives committee probing the Jan.

KYIV/KUPIANSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Evacuees from Ukraine’s southern Kherson region were expected to begin arriving in Russia today after a Moscow-installed official suggested residents should leave for safety, a sign of Moscow’s weakening hold on territory it claims to have annexed.

LONDON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng cut short his trip to Washington for this week’s global finance minister meetings and has headed back to London amid reports Prime Minister Liz Truss is considering reversing more of her government’s controversial “mini-budget”.

(Reuters) – Five people including an off-duty police officer were shot dead in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh yesterday, prompting a massive manhunt that shut down part of city and resulted in the arrest of one suspect, officials said.

KYIV/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Russian missiles have pounded more than 40 Ukrainian cities and towns over the past 24 hours, as NATO allies meeting in Brussels unveiled plans today to jointly beef up Europe’s air defences with Patriot and other missile systems.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian Supreme Court panel said today it was divided over a ban on hijabs in schools, and referred the matter to the chief justice, effectively leaving in place a state’s ruling against the scarves worn by women that has sparked uproar.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly yesterday overwhelmingly condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine and called on all countries not to recognize the move, strengthening a diplomatic international isolation of Moscow since it invaded its neighbour.

OAKLAND, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. is scrambling to tackle unintended consequences of its new export curbs on China’s chip industry that could inadvertently harm the semiconductor supply chain, people familiar with the matter said.

KYIV/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s allies on Wednesday announced delivery of new air defences and committed more military aid to Kyiv after intense Russian missile strikes and in anticipation of fighting through a harsh winter.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine and called on all countries not to recognize the move, strengthening a diplomatic international isolation of Moscow since it invaded its neighbour.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian health authorities said on Wednesday they had halted all production of New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals after a WHO report that its cough and cold syrups exported to Gambia may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children there.

ROME,  (Reuters) – When Aboubakar Soumahoro was a teenager in his native Ivory Coast, he used to clean shoes and dream of going to Italy, filling a scrapbook with pictures of Italian fashion designs that he cut out of magazines.

(Reuters) – The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, the U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday he doubted whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would use a tactical nuclear weapon as Ukraine pleaded for a rapid increase in Western military aid to defend against missile strikes on its cities.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general yesterday filed a so-called constitutional complaint against President Pedro Castillo, opening a new legal battle that opposition forces hope could lead to his ouster.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden pledged yesterday “there will be consequences” for U.S.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund warned today of a disorderly repricing in markets, saying global financial stability risks have increased, raising the risks of contagion and spillovers of stress between markets.