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TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Power was restored in downtown Toronto yesterday after an outage left the offices of Canada’s top businesses in the dark, forced the evacuation of one of the city’s biggest shopping malls and trapped people in elevators.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Two days after Kenya’s general election, officials had yet to announce who is leading the presidential race in East Africa’s regional powerhouse, as confused citizens struggled to make sense of divergent tallies from the media in a nail-bitingly close race.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Satellite pictures released today showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he declined to answer questions during an appearance before New York state’s attorney general in a civil investigation into his family’s business practices, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination.

FREETOWN,  (Reuters) – At least two police officers and one civilian died after a day of anti-government protests in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, staff at the city’s main mortuary said yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Heavy fighting raged around the eastern Ukrainian town of Pisky yesterday as Russia pressed its campaign to seize all of the industrialised Donbas region, while to the west Kyiv accused Moscow of using a nuclear plant to shield its artillery.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – A Tunisian court has halted President Kais Saied’s dismissal of around 50 judges, a lawyer said yesterday, underscoring the continued independence of courts despite Saied’s moves to assume wider authority over the judiciary.

(Reuters) – A senior Ukrainian official suggested a series of explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea could have been the work of partisan saboteurs, as Kyiv denied any responsibility for the incident deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.,  (Reuters) – A Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan has been arrested as the prime suspect in the serial killings of four Muslim men that rattled the Islamic community of New Mexico’s largest city, police said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Motown legend Lamont Dozier, the prolific singer-songwriter who composed and produced hits such as “Stop!

(Reuters) – The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said yesterday there were “early signs” that the monkeypox outbreak is plateauing across the country and that its expansion has slowed.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said yesterday that FBI agents had seized his cell phone, in yet another sign that the Justice Department’s investigation into the 2021 attack on the U.S.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that China was using the military drills it launched in protest against U.S.

PALM BEACH, Fla., (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate yesterday and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledged was part of an investigation into Trump’s removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort.

BRUNSWICK, Ga., (Reuters) – A judge sentenced a white father and son to life in prison and their neighbor to 35 years yesterday for a federal hate crime in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man shot after jogging in a suburban Georgia neighborhood in a case exemplifying racist violence and vigilantism in America.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine reported intense Russian shelling across the frontlines yesterday as both sides traded blame for the weekend strike on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex which triggered international concern about a potential atomic disaster.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats scored a major policy victory when the U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate yesterday passed a sweeping $430 billion bill intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, a major victory for President Joe Biden that Democrats hope will aid their chances of keeping control of Congress in this year’s elections.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Gustavo Petro yesterday became Colombia’s first leftist president, pledging to unite the polarized country in the fight against inequality and climate change and achieve peace with leftist rebels and crime gangs.

(Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called last night for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe’s largest atomic plant at the weekend.