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TIVAOUANE, Senegal,  (Reuters) – Three weeks ago, Ramata Gueye died after giving birth to a son, Mohamed, seven months into her pregnancy.

KYIV/SVITLODARSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Advancing Russian forces came closer to surrounding Ukrainian troops in the east, briefly seizing positions on the last highway out of a crucial pair of Ukrainian-held cities before being beaten back, a Ukrainian official said today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain announced a 25% windfall tax on oil and gas producers’ profits today, alongside a 15 billion pound ($18.9 billion) package of support for households struggling to meet soaring energy bills.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian forces shelled more than 40 towns in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, Ukraine’s military said, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their invasion, now in its fourth month.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree on Tuesday to step up fines for environmental crimes, according to the official government gazette, in a move to allow more aggressive protection of the Amazon rainforest.

UVALDE, Texas,  (Reuters) – The Texas gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers warned in an online message that he was going to shoot up an elementary school minutes before his rampage, Governor Greg Abbott said on Wednesday, as harrowing details about the attack emerged a day after the massacre.

KYIV/KRAMATORSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian forces intensified their assault on two key towns in Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region today, with constant mortar bombardment destroying houses, killing civilians and threatening the last escape route, Ukrainian officials said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A “humbled” Boris Johnson said he took full responsibility after a damning official report today detailed a series of illegal alcohol-fuelled parties at the British prime minister’s Downing Street office during coronavirus lockdowns.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Americans must stand up to the gun lobby and pressure members of Congress to pass sensible gun laws, U.S.

KYIV/SLOVYANSK, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russian forces sought to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin eastern cities straddling a river as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Moscow was seeking to destroy the industrial Donbas region where it has focused its attacks.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp won his party’s primary vote yesterday over a challenger endorsed by Donald Trump, marking the former U.S.

(Reuters) – A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in South Texas on Tuesday, killing 14 students and one teacher, before the suspect himself died, Governor Greg Abbott told reporters.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Tuesday there was no change to a U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny today lambasted President Vladimir Putin, casting the Kremlin chief as a doomed madman who started a “stupid war” that was butchering the innocent people of both Ukraine and Russia.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa requires mass vaccinations as measures like good hygiene and safe sexual behaviour will help control its spread, a senior official said on Monday.

LVIV, Ukraine/BERLIN,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday that the crisis in Ukraine was a global issue which heightened the importance of maintaining international order, territorial integrity and sovereignty.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday there had been no change to the policy of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Copenhagen’s pledge of Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a launcher to Ukraine, announced by the United States yesterday, is the first sign since the Russian invasion in February that Kyiv will receive U.S.-made

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy today told a meeting of global business leaders at Davos that the world faced a turning point and had to ratchet up sanctions against Russia as a warning to other countries considering using brute force.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said today he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, capping a series of critical comments about China while in Asia that an aide said represented no change in U.S.