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STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, opening the door to work on super computers and encrypted communication.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has asked Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw some of the oil blocks it has put up for auction in order to protect forests, he said yesterday on the sidelines of a climate conference in Kinshasa.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Police in Haiti fired tear gas yesterday at thousands of protesters marching in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, against Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s government and its handling of crippling fuel shortages and soaring prices.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is setting up tents to treat cholera in Haiti and will also request a supply of oral vaccines against the disease that has unexpectedly returned to a country paralysed by a gang blockade, a WHO spokesperson said.

(Reuters) – Loretta Lynn, the coal miner’s daughter and moonshiner’s wife who became one of American country music’s biggest stars and a leading feminist in the genre, died yesterday at the age of 90, her family said on Twitter.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has asked Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw some of the oil blocks it has put up for auction in order to protect forests, he said on Tuesday on the sidelines of a climate conference in Kinshasa.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced yesterday into a humiliating U-turn after less than a month in power, reversing a cut to the highest rate of income tax that helped spark turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party.

SEOUL/TOKYO, (Reuters) – Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years yesterday, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension of train operations in northern Japan.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began, bursting through the front and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River yesterday, threatening to encircle thousands of Russian troops.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation yesterday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages and claiming that the network had carried out a “campaign of libel and slander” against him.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began, bursting through the front and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River today, threatening to encircle thousands of Russian troops.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced today into a humiliating U-turn after less than a month in power, reversing a cut to the highest rate of income tax that helped spark turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party.

MALANG, Indonesia,  (Reuters) – A stampede at a soccer stadium in Indonesia has killed 125 people and injured more than 320 after police used tear gas to quell a pitch invasion, authorities said yesterday, in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential election is headed for a run-off vote, electoral authorities said yesterday, after President Jair Bolsonaro’s surprising strength in a first-round vote spoiled rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s hopes of winning outright.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis for the first time directly begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying yesterday that the crisis was risking a nuclear escalation with uncontrollable global consequences.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iranian lawmakers chanted “thank you, police” during a parliament session today, in a show of support for a fierce crackdown on widespread anti-government protests against the death of a young woman in police custody.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis for the first time directly begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying today that the crisis was risking a nuclear escalation with uncontrollable global consequences.

MALANG, Indonesia, (Reuters) – Up to 174 people were killed and 180 injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium after police sought to quell violence on the pitch, officials said today, in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops said on Saturday they had taken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible use of low-grade nuclear weapons.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Crews restored power to more neighborhoods across Havana on Saturday after a second day of protests over ongoing blackouts in Cuba’s capital, including some of the largest demonstrations since widespread anti-government rallies in July 2021.