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KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine vowed to strengthen its armed forces after Russia launched its biggest aerial assaults on cities since the beginning of the war, forcing thousands to flee to bomb shelters and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports to Europe.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee called yesterday for a freeze on cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including most arms sales, accusing the kingdom of helping underwrite the Russian war on Ukraine after OPEC+ announced last week it would cut oil production.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities yesterday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country’s vital energy sector.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia fired cruise missiles at cities across Ukraine during rush hour this morning, killing civilians and knocking out power and heat, in what President Vladimir Putin declared to be revenge for Ukrainian attacks including on a bridge to Crimea.

TAIPEI,  (Reuters) – War between Taiwan and China is “absolutely not an option”, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said today, as she reiterated her willingness to talk to Beijing and also pledged to boost the island’s defences including with precision missiles.

WASHINGTON/LONDON, (Reuters) – The OPEC+ organization’s decision last week to cut oil production despite stiff U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of orchestrating the explosion of a key bridge linking Russia and Crimea, an act he described as terrorism.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said there is scope to slow the economy based on an “exceptionally high number” of job vacancies in the labor market.

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand, (Reuters) – A three-year-old child who managed to survive last week’s massacre at a nursery in northeast Thailand slumbered through the horror under a blanket in the corner of a classroom.

KYIV, (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack early today struck an apartment block and other residential buildings in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people and injuring 87 others, including 10 children, Ukrainian officials said.

KYIV, (Reuters) – A powerful blast damaged Russia’s road-and-rail bridge to Crimea on Saturday, hitting a prestigious symbol of Moscow’s annexation of the peninsula and the key supply route to forces battling to hold territory captured in southern Ukraine.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – North Korea fired two ballistic missiles early on Sunday, authorities in neighbouring countries said, the seventh such launch by Pyongyang in recent days that added to widespread alarm in Washington and its allies in Tokyo and Seoul.

CREESLOUGH, Ireland, (Reuters) – Ten people, including two teenagers and a younger girl, were killed in an explosion at a petrol station in the Irish county of Donegal, police said on Saturday, adding that the incident appeared to be “a tragic accident”.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Cables vital for the rail network were intentionally cut in two places causing a near three-hour halt to all rail traffic in northern Germany on Saturday morning, in what authorities called an act of sabotage without identifying who might be responsible.

KYIV, (Reuters) – A powerful truck explosion seriously damaged Russia’s road-and-rail bridge to Crimea today, hitting a prestige symbol of Moscow’s annexation of the peninsula and the key supply route to Russian forces battling to hold territory captured in southern Ukraine.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iranians enraged over the death of a young woman in police custody braved bullets and tear gas today, a human rights group said, pressing ahead with protests against clerical rulers facing a relentless popular uprising.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, amid a war in their region that is the worst conflict in Europe since World War Two.

MOSCOW/HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed a decree that creates a new operator for the Exxon Mobil Corp-led XOM.N

BOGOTA – Colombia’s government said it reached a deal with cattle farmers to buy 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land, earmarked for poor rural farmers to push agrarian reform while boosting food production and tackling poverty.

(Reuters) – Haiti’s government has authorized Prime Minister Ariel Henry to ask the international community for a “specialized armed force” to address a crisis caused by a blockade of the country’s main fuel port that has led to crippling shortages, according to a decree circulating on Friday.