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ABUJA, (Reuters) – The United States will turn over to Nigeria $23 million taken by former military ruler Sani Abacha, officials said at an event to sign the agreement yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s secret appointments to ministries during the COVID-19 pandemic “fundamentally undermined” responsible government despite being legally valid, according to advice from the solicitor general.

MADRID, (Reuters) – A $75-million superyacht linked to a sanctioned Russian steel billionaire was auctioned yesterday in Gibraltar, court sources said, in what is understood to be the first sale of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s top court ordered former prime minister Najib Razak to begin a 12-year prison sentence on Tuesday after upholding a guilty conviction on charges related to a multi-billion dollar graft scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s secret appointments to ministries during the COVID-19 pandemic “fundamentally undermined” responsible government despite being legally valid, according to advice from the solicitor general.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump yesterday asked a federal court to temporarily block the FBI from reviewing the materials it seized two weeks ago from his Florida home, until a special master can be appointed to oversee the review.

Moscow (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service accused Ukraine’s secret services yesterday of killing Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist, in a car bomb attack near Moscow that President Vladimir Putin called “evil”.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has tested negative in a drug test she took following the publication of video footage last week that showed her partying with friends, the prime minister’s office said on Monday.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. court upheld a tribunal’s $8.75 billion award to U.S.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga yesterday challenged Kenya’s presidential election results in the Supreme Court and alleged the tally had involved “criminality”, sharpening a political contest gripping East Africa’s powerhouse.

(Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service on Monday accused Ukraine’s secret services of killing Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist, in a car bomb attack near Moscow.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gathered outside his home today to stop police arresting him on anti-terrorism charges related to a weekend televised speech.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Road blockades set up by community members around Zijin Mining’s 601899.SS

(Reuters) – Artillery shells rained down on a city near Europe’s biggest nuclear plant and Russian missiles struck near the Black Sea port of Odesa yesterday, as Ukraine warned of the potential for more serious attacks by Russia as the war neared its six-month anniversary.

 (Reuters) – The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow, Russian state investigators said on Sunday.

(Reuters) – New blasts resounded in the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula yesterday and a Russian missile hit a residential area of a southern Ukrainian town not far from a nuclear power station, wounding 12 civilians, Russian and Ukrainian officials said.

LUANDA,  (Reuters) – The body of Angola’s former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who died in Spain in July, arrived in the Angolan capital Luanda last evening, casting a new element into a tense election campaign.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Plunging water levels of the Yangtze River have revealed a submerged island in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing and a trio of Buddhist statues on it that are believed to be 600 years old, state media Xinhua has reported.

(Reuters) – Somali forces have ended the siege at a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the AFP news agency said in a tweet yesterday, citing a security commander.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on the second anniversary of his attempted poisoning and denounced Russia’s clampdown on freedom of speech.