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IZIUM, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Dressed in white protective suits and wearing rubber gloves, Ukrainian emergency workers yesterday dug up more bodies from a wooded burial site in territory recently recaptured from Russian forces, while townspeople looked for dead relatives.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Princes William and Harry stood vigil at either end of the coffin of their grandmother Queen Elizabeth yesterday heads bowed as a line of mourners streamed past the late monarch’s lying-in-state.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Protests broke out in western Iran yesterday at the funeral of a young woman who died after being detained by morality police enforcing strict hijab rules, and security forces used tear gas to disperse demonstrators.

LONDON/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Eight radio-collared African cheetahs step out on to the grassland of Kuno National Park in central India, their final destination after a 5,000-mile (8,000 km) journey from Namibia that has drawn criticism from some conservationists.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – King Charles and his son William shook hands and greeted well-wishers who had queued for hours in central London today to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth, asking people how long they had been there and whether they were warm enough.

KYIV/IZIUM,   (Reuters) – Ukrainian officials said yesterday they had found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands tied behind their backs, buried in territory recaptured from Russian forces, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called proof of war crimes by the invaders.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department yesterday appealed a court ruling blocking it from reviewing classified materials seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday discussed relations with Russia in a White House meeting with South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, who has resisted joining Washington’s campaign against Moscow for the war in Ukraine.

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday that now was not the time for war, directly assailing the Kremlin chief in public over the nearly seven-month-long conflict in Ukraine.

BISHKEK,  (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan reported “intense battles” with Central Asian neighbour Tajikistan yesterday and said 24 people had been killed in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the former Soviet Union.

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin today that now was not the time for war, directly assailing the Kremlin chief in public over the nearly seven-month-long conflict in Ukraine.

IZIUM, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Several bodies with rope around their necks and hands tied were among those visible at a mass burial site being exhumed by Ukrainian police and forensic experts today in territory recaptured days ago from Russians in northeastern Ukraine.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration secured a tentative deal yesterday to avert a railway strike that could have wreaked havoc on the U.S.

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said he understood that Xi Jinping had questions and concerns about the situation in Ukraine but praised China’s leader for what he said was a “balanced” position on the conflict.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities found a mass grave of more than 440 bodies in the northeastern town of Izium that was recaptured from Russian forces days ago, officials said, including some people killed by shelling and air strikes.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two COVID-19 antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the basis that Omicron and the variant’s latest offshoots have likely rendered them obsolete.

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin today said he understood that Xi Jinping had questions and concern about the situation in Ukraine but praised China’s leader for what he said was a “balanced” position on the conflict.

(Reuters) – The sporty all-electric car from the Netherlands resembles a BMW coupe, but is unique: It captures more carbon than it emits.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Taliban and Pakistani security forces exchanged fire along the after Pakistani soldiers tried to erect a military structure on the Afghan-Pakistani border, causing multiple casualties on both sides, the Taliban said on Wednesday.

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Greek actress and singer Irene Papas, who gained international recognition starring in classic 1960s films such as “Zorba the Greek” and “The Guns of Navarone”, has died at the age of 96, Greece’s culture ministry said yesterday.