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LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s former finance minister Rishi Sunak held onto his lead in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister yesterday as another hopeful was knocked out, leaving four candidates in an increasingly bitter contest to replace Boris Johnson.

OAKLAND,  (Reuters) – Truck drivers choked traffic at the Oakland, California, seaport yesterday protesting a state law that makes it harder for independent contractors to transport goods and could limit labor at the state’s already clogged seaports, threatening to worsen the nation’s pandemic-fueled supply chain jams.

LONDON/PARIS  (Reuters) – Firefighters in southwestern France battled today to contain massive forest wildfires and Britain recorded its highest ever temperature as a heatwave rising from the south settled over western Europe.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The five Conservative contenders still vying to be Britain’s next prime minister clashed over tax cuts in a second televised debate yesterday, with the two frontrunners – Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss – stepping up their battle on the economy.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has not decided whether to build one, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Qatar’s al Jazeera TV yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia is preparing for the next stage of its offensive in Ukraine, a Ukrainian military official said, after Moscow said its forces would step up military operations in “all operational areas”.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A gunman killed three people when he opened fire in the food court of a shopping mall outside Indianapolis yesterday before a bystander fatally shot the assailant, Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison said.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Technical personnel at Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA and firefighters were putting out a fire on a natural gas pipeline in the country’s east, Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said on Twitter yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Major crude oil producers have spare capacity and are likely to boost supplies following President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East, a senior U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Ukraine war shows that the West’s dominance is coming to an end as China rises to superpower status in partnership with Russia at one of the most significant inflection points in centuries, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden told Arab leaders yesterday that the United States would remain an active partner in the Middle East, but he failed to secure commitments to a regional security axis that would include Israel or an immediate oil output rise.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday its forces would step up military operations in Ukraine in “all operational areas” as Moscow’s rockets and missiles pounded cities in strikes that Kyiv says have killed dozens in recent days.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered the transport ministry to renegotiate loan agreements struck by his predecessor with China for railway projects worth $4.90 billion, an official said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A lawyer pushing the baseless claim of massive fraud in the 2020 election urged former President Donald Trump to overturn his loss through steps that would be viewed as “martial law,” according to a memo published online yesterday by the New York Times.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – The heirs of a 19th century sultanate are seeking to seize Malaysian government assets around the world in a bid to enforce a $14.9 billion arbitration award they won against the Southeast Asian nation, despite a stay on the case handed by a French court, their lawyers told Reuters.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – The heirs of a 19th century sultanate are seeking to seize Malaysian government assets around the world in a bid to enforce a $14.9 billion arbitration award they won against the Southeast Asian nation, despite a stay on the case handed by a French court, their lawyers told Reuters.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday he told Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman he held him responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, shortly after exchanging a fist bump with the kingdom’s de facto ruler.

VINNYTSIA, Ukraine,  (Reuters) A Ukrainian city far from the frontline grieved its dead from a missile strike, including a 4-year-old girl, as Russian bombardment rained down on towns across the country.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – The Peruvian government yesterday said the country runs the risk of being unable to host the Organization of American States (OAS) annual General Assembly this year because of a congressional decision opposing gender neutral bathrooms.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican military captured yesterday notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted for the murder and torture of a U.S.