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DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Protesters rallied across Iran and strikes were reported throughout the country’s Kurdish region today as demonstrations against the death of a woman in police custody entered their third week.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia said today its troops had abandoned a key bastion in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted one of President Vladimir Putin’s most hawkish allies to call for Russia to consider resorting to low-grade nuclear weapons.

FORT MYERS, Fla./CHARLESTON, S.C., (Reuters) – Florida, North and South Carolina faced a massive clean-up today from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian, after one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – A defiant Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia’s annexation of a swathe of Ukraine in a pomp-filled Kremlin ceremony, promising Moscow would triumph in its “special military operation” even as he faced a potentially serious new military reversal.

OUAGADOUGOU, (Reuters) – Armed soldiers in fatigues and masks appeared on television in Burkina Faso on Friday night to confirm the ouster of President Paul-Henri Damiba, the second coup in the troubled West African country this year.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities said they had recovered eight bodies on Friday after days of intense rains swelled rivers and unleashed flash floods, leaving at least three others missing.

FORT MYERS, Fla./CHARLESTON, S.C., (Reuters) – Hurricane Ian slammed into South Carolina on Friday afternoon, making another landfall after a deadly march across Florida that washed away houses, stranded thousands and left an unknown number of people dead.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – A defiant Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia’s annexation of a swathe of Ukraine in a pomp-filled Kremlin ceremony, promising Moscow would triumph in its “special military operation” even as he faced a potentially serious new military reversal.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration will not nominate a candidate from the United States to head the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) after this week’s ouster of Mauricio Claver-Carone after an ethics scandal, a Treasury spokesperson told Reuters.

MOSCOW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday that leaks spewing gas into the Baltic Sea from pipelines to Germany appeared to be the result of state-sponsored “terrorism”, as an EU official said the incident had fundamentally changed the nature of the conflict in Ukraine.

(Reuters) – Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are resisting a federal judge’s instruction to submit a sworn declaration on whether they believe the government’s list of property taken from Trump’s Florida estate is accurate.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveil-ed criminal sanctions violations charges against Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who was among two dozen allies of Pre-sident Vladimir Putin blacklisted by Washington over Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S.

VENICE, Fla. (Reuters) – Emergency crews took to helicopters and boats on Thursday to rescue residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast stranded by floodwaters, downed power lines and piles of debris left behind by Hurricane Ian’s destructive march across the state.

VENICE, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Emergency crews raced today to reach stranded Florida residents as Hurricane Ian trained its sights on the Carolinas after cutting a coast-to-coast path of destruction across Florida, leaving behind deadly floodwaters, downed power lines and widespread damage.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors today unveiled criminal sanctions violations charges against Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who was among two dozen allies of President Vladimir Putin blacklisted by Washington over Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court ruled today that a woman’s lack of marital status could not deny her the choice to abort a pregnancy at any time up to 24 weeks, a decision hailed by women’s rights activists.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States said at a summit with Pacific island leaders yesterday that it had agreed on a partnership for the future with them and held out the prospect of “big dollar” help to a region where it hopes to stem China’s expanding influence.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng unleashed historic tax cuts and huge increases in borrowing on Friday in an economic agenda that floored financial markets, sending sterling and British government bonds into freefall.

BERLIN/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The European Union on Wednesday promised a “robust” response to any intentional disruption of its energy infrastructure after saying it suspected sabotage was behind gas leaks discovered this week on subsea Russian pipelines to Europe.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A Mexican senator filed on Wednesday a criminal complaint against the country’s energy minister and the chief executive of Pemex for allegedly not reporting a methane leak at one of the state oil company’s offshore platforms, according to the document seen by Reuters.