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(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors examining the role of former President Donald Trump and allies in events ahead of the Jan.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rap musician A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty yesterday to two felony charges of assault with a firearm connected to a November shooting of a former friend in Hollywood.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A huge explosion struck a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers today, witnesses and police said, with many feared dead or injured.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australia’s former prime minister Scott Morrison said today he decided to be secretly sworn in to five key ministries during the pandemic because he felt the responsibility for the nation was his alone.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia blamed saboteurs for explosions at one of its military bases in Moscow-annexed Crimea while Kyiv hinted it was responsible as Ukrainian officials said their strategy was to destroy supply lines supporting Russia’s invasion.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Four members of the U.S. Congress have called on the Biden administration to name a new Special Envoy for Haiti, as rampant gang violence cripples the impoverished Caribbean nation.

JACKSON, Wyo.,  (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, a fierce Republican critic of Donald Trump who has played a prominent role in the congressional probe of the Jan.

NAIROBI/KISUMU, (Reuters) – Kenyan politician Raila Odinga rejected as a “travesty” the result of the Aug.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s SMA environmental regulator said yesterday it had issued a series of measures against a copper mine owned by Canada’s Lundin Mining Corp LUN.TO

KYIV, (Reuters) – Explosions rocked an ammunition depot and disrupted trains in Russian-annexed Crimea today, the latest such incident in a region Moscow uses as a supply line for its war in Ukraine.

KYIV/ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – The ship Brave Commander has left the Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi, carrying the first cargo of humanitarian food aid bound for Africa from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Tuesday.

NAIROBI/KISUMU,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s elections chief declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of a tight presidential race yesterday but some senior election officials disowned the result, fuelling fears of widespread violence like that seen after previous disputed polls.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine called for new sanctions on Russia and highlighted the risks and consequences of a catastrophe at Europe’s biggest nuclear plant, where fresh shelling nearby has reignited a blame game between both sides.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain, the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine in late 2020, has now also given the first green light to a variant-adapted shot that targets both the original and Omicron version of the virus.

(Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer who helped lead challenges to the 2020 election results, said on Monday that he is a target in a criminal probe in Georgia examining attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election.

NAIROBI/KISUMU,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s elections chief declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of a tight presidential race today but some senior election officials disowned the result, fuelling fears of violence like that seen after previous disputed polls.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts to advance on several towns in the eastern region of Donetsk that has become a key focus of the near six-month war, but said they had repelled many of the attacks.

(Reuters) – Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was stabbed repeatedly at a public appearance in New York state on Friday, 33 years after Iran’s then-supreme leader called for him to be killed, is off a ventilator and his health is improving, his agent and a son said on Sunday.

TAIPEI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A delegation of U.S. lawmakers arrived in Taiwan yesterday for a two-day trip during which they will meet President Tsai Ing-wen, the second high-level group to visit while there are military tensions between the self-ruled island and China.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Israel hit Iranian targets in a series of strikes yesterday near the ancestral home region of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, and close to Russia’s main Syrian bases on the Mediterranean coast, regional intelligence and Syrian military sources said.