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UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council yesterday unanimously threatened targeted sanctions against criminal gangs and human rights abusers in Haiti and called on countries to stop a flow of guns to the strife-torn Caribbean country.

VINNYTSIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian missiles struck a Ukrainian city far behind the frontlines in an attack Kyiv officials said killed at least 23 people and constituted another war crime against civilians.

COLOMBO/SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted a letter of resignation yesterday, a spokesperson for the parliament speaker said, hours after fleeing to Singapore following mass protests over an economic meltdown.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest biofuel producer BSBios will build the country’s first big facility that uses wheat to make ethanol, which will increase, not diminish, food supplies, its chief executive said, amid a global discussion on prioritizing food over fuel production.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former finance minister Rishi Sunak cemented his lead over rivals to become Britain’s next prime minister yesterday in an increasingly bitter race to replace Boris Johnson.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian demonstrators yesterday burned tires and blocked streets of the capital to protest ongoing fuel shortages even as the country’s main fuel terminal renewed deliveries that had been suspended due to an outbreak of gang violence.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A self-portrait of Dutch post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind one of his paintings.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s tourism fund has terminated a high-profile construction contract it awarded last year to a consortium led by a subsidiary of mining and transport firm Grupo Mexico GMEXICOB.MX,

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A self-portrait of Dutch post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind one of his paintings.

ISTANBUL/UNITED NATIONS, New York,  (Reuters) – Ukraine, the United Nations and Turkey hailed progress at talks in Istanbul that aim to resume Black Sea grain exports blocked by Russia and ease the risk of starvation faced by millions, but an end to the war remained far off as heavy shelling continued.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former finance minister Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers yesterday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime minister, while two more rivals were eliminated.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The shooting over the weekend of an official in Brazil’s leftist Workers’ Party (PT) by a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has inflamed fears of more political violence ahead of a heated election in October.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is seen ramping up its battle with 40-year high inflation with a supersized 100 basis points rate hike this month after a grim inflation report showed price pressures accelerating.

LA MACARENA, Colombia  (Reuters) – Colombia’s Meta province, long dependent on oil and gas production for its wealth, is hoping a focus on tourism can help grow its income and support hundreds of families in the region, local officials told Reuters.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. annual consumer prices jumped 9.1% in June, the largest increase in more than four decades, leaving Americans to dig deeper to pay for gasoline, food, healthcare and rents, and the Federal Reserve most certain to hike interest rates by another 75 basis points at the end of the month.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country for the Maldives yesterday, sources told Reuters, hours before he was due to step down amid widespread protests over his handling of a devastating economic crisis.

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of inciting a mob of followers to attack the U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine launched long-range rocket attacks on Russian forces in southern Ukraine and destroyed an ammunition store, its military said, as Russia continued to pound the country’s east.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said yesterday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said today it had carried out a successful long-range rocket strike against Russian forces in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops.