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ROME,  (Reuters) – The Arch of Constantine, a giant ancient Roman arch next to the Colosseum, was damaged after a violent storm hit Rome, conservation authorities said on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – A California doctor and a woman charged with illegally supplying the drug ketamine to “Friends” star Matthew Perry before his overdose death will face trial in March, according to court documents released on Tuesday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – A 71-year-old man is on trial in France accused of drugging his wife and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her in their home over nearly a decade in a case that has shocked the country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian state-owned power firm Electricite d’Haiti (EDH) said yesterday that output at Peligre, the Caribbean nation’s largest hydroelectric plant, was down to zero after protests over distribution of the country’s flailing power supplies.

RAMALLAH, (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed three people including a 16-year-old Palestinian girl in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, as a major Israeli operation in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarm continued for a seventh day.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Texas woman has been formally indicted by a grand jury in the attempted drowning of a 3-year-old Palestinian American Muslim girl in a May incident that local police said was motivated by racial bias.

DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – An Irish state inquiry uncovered a “truly shocking” level of sexual abuse at religious schools, primarily those run by the Catholic Church, over nearly a century with 2,395 allegations, the government said yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – At least 41 people were killed and more than 180 wounded on Tuesday when Russia struck a military institute in the central town of Poltava with two missiles, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, the war’s deadliest single attack so far this year.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s attorney general’s office said yesterday a court has issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, accusing him of conspiracy and other crimes amid a dispute over whether he or President Nicolas Maduro won a July election.

LONDON/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked two crude oil tankers – the Saudi-flagged Amjad and the Panama-flagged Blue Lagoon I – in the Red Sea yesterday, the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said yesterday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and the U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian forces are advancing faster in eastern Ukraine than they have done for a long time, taking several square kilometres per day, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday as Moscow’s forces tried to smash through a Ukrainian defensive line.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – South Korean police have launched an investigation into Telegram that will look at whether the encrypted messaging app has been complicit in the distribution of sexually explicit deepfake content, Yonhap news agency said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said today that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and the U.S.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The far right’s first victory in a German state election in the post-war era prompted soul-searching in Berlin today, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s battered and unloved coalition looked as if it would hold together.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told China’s Xi Jinping today he wanted to narrow his country’s trade deficit with Beijing, days before the Chinese leader is due to urge a summit of 50 African nations to buy more Chinese goods.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in Gaza where it said they were killed shortly before its troops reached them, triggering protests by Israelis on Sunday and planned labour strikes over the failure to save them.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some 10,000 U.S. hotel workers began a multi-day strike in several cities on Sunday after contract talks with hotel operators Marriott International (MAR.O)

BERLIN (Reuters) – The Alternative for Germany (AfD) was on track to become the first far-right party to win a regional election in Germany since World War Two, projections showed, giving it unprecedented power even if other parties are sure to exclude it from office.

KYIV (Reuters) – At least 47 people, including five children, were injured on Sunday after Russian missiles struck a shopping mall and events complex in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv, officials said.