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(Reuters) – Ratan Tata, the former Tata  Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement late on Wednesday.

TAMPA, Florida, (Reuters) – Hurricane Milton barreled toward Florida’s battered Gulf Coast as an enormous Category 5 storm on Tuesday, triggering massive traffic jams and fuel shortages as officials ordered more than 1 million people to flee before it slams into the Tampa Bay area.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday Israeli airstrikes had killed two successors to Hezbollah’s slain leader, as Israel expanded its  ground offensive against the Iran-backed group with a fourth army division deployed into south Lebanon.

BUCHAREST, (Reuters) – Romania’s top court said a far-right candidate’s pro-Russian, anti-European Union and anti-NATO opinions made her ineligible to run for president in an upcoming election in a ruling which threatened to topple the coalition government.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s population grew by 1% in annual terms to 68.3 million as of mid-2023, mainly due to high immigration, official data showed yesterday.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said yesterday.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said today.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third-largest city, Haifa, and Israel looked poised to expand its offensive into Lebanon yesterday, one year after the devastating Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the Gaza war.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Milton strengthened rapidly in the southern Gulf of Mexico yesterday as it skirted the northern edge of the Yucatan peninsula, home to tourist hotspots and cargo ports, with a strike expected on Florida this week.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate  Donald Trump said yesterday there are “a lot of bad genes” in the United States, while discussing murders allegedly committed by immigrants living illegally in the United States.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) –  U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine yesterda#y for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning soul and gospel singer and mother of the late Whitney Houston, died in her New Jersey home yesterday at the age of 91.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British doctor yesterday pleaded guilty to an audacious but unsuccessful plot to kill his mother’s partner with a fake COVID-19 vaccine, which involved him forging medical documents and dressing in disguise to inject his victim with poison.

CAIRO/GAZA, (Reuters) – Israel stepped up its air and ground offensive in Gaza with more attacks on Hamas militants and command posts today as both sides marked the first anniversary of a war that has destroyed much of the territory and shattered the lives of its people.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – River flows around the world fell to all-time lows last year amid record heat, endangering water supplies in an era of growing demand, a U.N.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live, the award-giving body said today.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli air attacks battered Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight and early on Sunday in the most intense bombardment of the Lebanese capital since Israel sharply escalated its campaign against Iran-backed group Hezbollah last month.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off Samoa but all 75 crew and passengers on board were safe, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday.

(Reuters) – Iran’s Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the killing last month of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, has not been heard from since strikes on Beirut late last week, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters.

CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 26 people were killed and 93 others wounded when Israeli airstrikes hit a mosque and a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said.