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(Reuters) – Nichelle Nichols, whose portrayal of starship communications officer Lieutenant Uhura in the 1960s sci-fi TV series “Star Trek” and subsequent movies broke colour barriers and helped redefine roles for Black actors, has died at age 89, her family said.

TIERRA MONTE, N.M.,  (Reuters) – After the U.S. government started the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history in April, it is asking victims to share recovery costs on private land, jeopardizing relief efforts, according to residents and state officials.

ANTANANARIVO,  (Reuters) – At least 32 people were killed in Madagascar in an area north of the capital on Friday after local bandits known as “dahalo” set homes on fire, according to statements by the defence ministry.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday his government was ordering the mandatory evacuation of people in the eastern Donetsk region, scene of fierce fighting with Russia.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, (Reuters) – Pope Francis said yesterday that his advancing age and his difficulty walking have ushered in a new, slower phase of his papacy and repeated that he would be ready to resign one day if serious health problems prohibited him from running the Church.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters of Shi’ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed Baghdad’s fortified government zone and broke into parliament yesterday for the second time in a week, leaving at least 125 people injured and escalating a political stand-off.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again yesterday in what the White House doctor described as a “rebound” case seen in a small percentage of patients who take the antiviral drug Paxlovid.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British businesses are cutting ties with China due to concerns about political tensions, a shift that is likely to stoke inflationary pressures, the head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said in an interview published on Saturday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden again tested positive for COVID-19 today, according to a statement from the White House physician, although he is experiencing no symptoms and feels “quite well.”

LONDON, (Reuters) – Around 5,000 train drivers across almost a quarter of Britain’s rail network went on strike on Saturday, as part of a campaign for higher pay after the country’s inflation rate hit its highest in 40 years.

ODESA, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war appeared to have been killed when a prison building was destroyed in a missile strike or explosion, with Moscow and Kyiv accusing each other of responsibility yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – London’s High Court has rejected President Nicolas Maduro’s latest efforts to gain control of more than $1 billion of Venezuela’s gold reserves stored in the Bank of England’s underground vaults in London.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Brazilian firm selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) it says are linked to physical land in the country’s Amazon rainforest has been asked by Brazilian prosecutors to prove its ownership of the land, which is in territory claimed by indigenous people.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance to his agenda: his own federal police.

ODESA, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war appeared to have been killed when a prison building was destroyed in a missile strike today, with Moscow and Kyiv accusing each other of carrying out the attack.

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WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned against playing with fire over Taiwan in a call with U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. economy unexpectedly contracted in the second quarter, with consumer spending growing at its slowest pace in two years and business spending declining, raising the risk that the economy was on the cusp of a recession.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental authority yesterday granted an initial permit that will allow a major highway to be paved through the centre of the Amazon rainforest, the minister of infrastructure said, in a move that threatens to increase deforestation.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine stepped up its counter-attacks against Russian forces in the south while Moscow bombed Kyiv’s outskirts for the first time in weeks as Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two dragged on with no end in sight.