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SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Russian aluminium producer Rusal RUAL.MM has launched legal action against Rio Tinto RIO.AX

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – When the United States said last year it would host the 2022 Summit of the Americas, officials had high hopes the event would help repair Trump-era damage to relations and reassert U.S.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian strategic bombers fired missiles at Kyiv from as far away as the Caspian Sea early today and explosions shook two of the Ukrainian capital’s eastern districts, Ukraine’s air force and the city’s mayor said.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – More than $400 million in tax advances and loans that Democratic Republic of Congo’s state mining company Gecamines said it paid to the national treasury cannot be found, according to a report by the government’s public finances watchdog.

(Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday blamed recent protests in Iran on foreign “enemies” seeking to overthrow the Islamic Republic.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Tunisia’s judges will suspend work in courts for a week and hold a sit-in to protest against a purge of their ranks, amid growing tensions over the president’s attempts to consolidate one-man rule.

(Reuters) – The judicial council of Iraq’s Kurdistan said the region’s oil law remained in force, rejected a ruling from the federal supreme court that Kurdish authorities should hand over their crude supplies.

RIYADH,  (Reuters) – Two Saudi government delegations plan to visit the United States this month, officials said yesterday, as Riyadh and Washington step up efforts to fix strained ties and lay the ground for an eventual visit by U.S.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday it had recaptured a swathe of the battlefield city of Sievierodonetsk, where intense fighting continued, in a rare counter-offensive against Russia’s main assault force that had been steadily advancing in the east.

SIEVIERODONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine said it clawed back a chunk of the industrial centre of Sievierodonetsk in combat that appeared last night to be stymieing a Russian drive to capture the ruined city, the focus of Moscow’s offensive to take the eastern Donbas region.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Horse-loving Queen Elizabeth was thanked for being “in the saddle” for 70 years as head of state at a service yesterday to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, an event she missed due to her “mobility issues”.

(Reuters) – Venezuela’s oil exports last month fell to the lowest level since October 2020 as repairs at the country’s main oil port added to delays shipping cargoes, documents from state-run PDVSA and vessel tracking data showed.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) doubled down on its calls yesterday for El Salvador’s government to respect the rights and dignity of tens of thousands of Salvadorans detained during a nationwide state of emergency.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Union today blacklisted Russian military commanders who it said led troops involved in atrocities in Ukraine, describing them as the “butchers” of Bucha and Mariupol.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Horse-loving Queen Elizabeth was thanked for being “in the saddle” for 70 years as head of state at a service today to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, an event she missed due to ongoing mobility issues.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Declaring “Enough, enough!” U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday called on Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other gun control measures to address a string of mass shootings that have struck the United States.

LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine expects to receive more weapons from allies after a new U.S.

OTTAWA/TORONTO, (Reuters) – Ontario Premier Doug Ford claimed a sweeping election victory in Canada’s most populous province yesterday, as media projected a second term for his right-leaning Progressive Conservative party with an enhanced majority.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Investigative fracking operations in Colombia can go ahead after a court in the Andean country’s Santander province yesterday reversed a lower court’s decision to block two pilot projects.

(Reuters) – A man shot and killed two women in the parking lot of a church in Iowa state yesterday and then turned the gun on himself, police said, adding three more dead to the toll in a series of recent shootings that have rocked the United States.