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CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is not ruling out bringing forward the country’s 2024 presidential election, his office said yesterday in a message published on Twitter.

MOSCOW/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree, published today, to set up a new operator for the Sakhalin 1 oil and gas project, following similar steps to seize other oil and gas projects with foreign participation.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize today, highlighting the significance of civil society for peace and democracy.

NEW YORK/KYIV,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons is the biggest such threat since the Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russia’s military leadership faced a rare domestic public backlash over the war in Ukraine.

NA KLANG, Thailand,  (Reuters) – Thai government buildings flew flags at half mast today to mourn the death of more than 30 people, including 23 children, after an ex-policeman burst into a daycare centre in a knife and gun rampage that left the nation shocked and seeking answers.

(Reuters) – A man who pleaded guilty to participating in an elaborate plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor was sentenced to four years in prison after he served as a key witness in the trial of two co-conspirators as part of a deal with prosecutors.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The U.N. rights council yesterday voted down a Western-led motion to hold a debate about alleged human rights abuses by China against Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang in a victory for Beijing as it seeks to avoid further scrutiny.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday for “the courage and clinical acuity” in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality.

BANGKOK,  (Reuters) – A former policeman killed 38 people, including 22 children, in a knife and gun rampage at a daycare centre in Thailand today, later shooting dead his wife and child at their home before turning his weapon on himself, police said.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for “the courage and clinical acuity” in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality.

LONDON, (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies believe parts of the Ukrainian government authorised a car bomb attack near Moscow in August that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist, the New York Times reported.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a programme that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation was unlawful, but said current enrollees could renew their status and sent the case back to a lower court to consider a new Biden administration regulation.

KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of the partially Russian-occupied southern regions that Moscow claims to have annexed.

(Reuters) – The deaths of dozens of young children in Gambia from acute kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

VIENNA/LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ agreed steep oil production cuts today, curbing supply in an already tight market, causing one of its biggest clashes with the West as the U.S.

VIENNA/LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ agreed steep oil production cuts today, curbing supply in an already tight market, causing one of its biggest clashes with the West as the U.S.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s military had made major, rapid advances against Russian forces in the past week, taking back dozens of towns in regions in the south and east that Russia has declared annexed.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity yesterday after a grid failure, a government official said, adding that authorities were working to gradually restore power supply in the country of 168 million people.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Two substances in the saliva of wax worms – moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs – readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a potential advance in the global fight against plastic pollution.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday said the Army is working on a proposal to create its own commercial airline, confirming reports from a leak of government documents last week.