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HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba appeared to make progress yesterday bringing under control a fire at its main oil storage facility that has killed one firefighter, drawing on help from Mexico and Venezuela to fight the raging flames. 

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group declared a truce late yesterday, raising hopes of an end to the most serious flare-up on the Gaza frontier in more than a year.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate today repelled attempts to amend a $430 billion measure sought by President Joe Biden, as Democrats forged ahead with efforts to pass a bill aimed at controlling climate change and cutting prescription drug costs for the elderly.

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission yesterday congratulated newly elected Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis Dr Terrance Drew and the St Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) on their victory in the August 5th  2022 General Elections.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan officials said Chinese aircraft and warships rehearsed an attack on the island yesterday, part of Beijing’s retaliation for a visit there by U.S.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologised to the leader of the country’s opposition Socialist party for not knowing that he had been wiretapped by Greece’s intelligence service in 2021, adding he would never have allowed it.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) raised grave concerns yesterday about the shelling the previous day at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, saying the action showed the risk of a nuclear disaster.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the militant Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, killing at least six people, including four children.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A second fuel storage tank near Cuba’s supertanker port in Matanzas exploded yesterday morning following a blaze which burned through the night after lightning hit another tank on Friday evening.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel struck in Gaza and Palestinians fired rockets at Israeli cities on Saturday after an Israeli operation against the Islamic Jihad militant group ended more than a year of relative calm along the border.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – China announced yesterday it was halting dialogue with the United States in a number of areas, including between theatre-level military commanders and on climate change, in a furore over U.S.

(Reuters) – U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages – on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded – for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury decided yesterday.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine accused each other yesterday of shelling Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant as fighting raged again in the crucial border region of the Donbas and three more ships left ports carrying previously blockaded Ukrainian grain.

TAIPEI,  (Reuters) – China announced today it was halting dialogue with the United States in a number of areas, including between theatre-level military commanders and on climate talks, in an escalating furore over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – China deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles near Taiwan yesterday in its biggest drills in the Taiwan Strait, a day after U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said yesterday she agreed to “move forward” on a $430 billion drug pricing, energy and tax bill, subject to a Senate arbiter’s approval of the bill, which Democrats intend to pass over Republican objections.  

(Reuters) – U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury said yesterday.

ISTANBUL/KYIV, (Reuters) – Three ships carrying a total of 58,041 tonnes of corn have been authorised to leave Ukrainian ports today  as part of a deal to unblock grain exports, as a Russian offensive forced Ukraine to cede territory in the east.

KYIV/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Ukraine said Russia had started creating a military strike force aimed at President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, as NATO moved closer to the most significant expansion of the alliance in decades as it responds to the invasion of Ukraine.