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KYIV,  (Reuters) – A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison today for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia’s invasion.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian soldiers cleared mines and debris on the industrial grounds of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol yesterday after hundreds of Ukrainian forces holed up in the vast plant for weeks were ordered to stand down.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – The death toll from powerful thunderstorms in Canada’s two most populous provinces this weekend rose to at least eight, authorities said yesterday, as emergency crews continued a massive clean-up to restore power to half a million people.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, in Seoul before heading to Japan as part of his first Asia trip as president, had a simple message for North Korea’s Kim Jong Un: “Hello… period,” he told reporters on the last day of his visit to South Korea yesterday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said yesterday that one of its officers, Colonel Sayad Khodai, was killed in a rare assassination in Tehran.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Only Ukraine has the right to decide its future, the Polish president told lawmakers in Kyiv today, as he became the first foreign leader to give a speech in person to the Ukrainian parliament since Russia’s Feb.

KYIV/OSLO,  (Reuters) – Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow yesterday as Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland.

(Reuters) – U.S., Japan, Australia, and India will unveil a maritime initiative at the Quad summit in Tokyo to curb illegal fishing in the Indo-Pacific, the Financial Times reported yesterday, citing a U.S.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australia’s Labour party looks set to form the next government after unprecedented support for climate-focussed independents ended a decade’s rule of the conservative coalition, although the new government may not end up with a full majority.

(Reuters) – Qatar’s foreign minister said yesterday in remarks cited by al Jazeera TV that the Iranian leadership expressed readiness for a compromise regarding “the Iranian nuclear file”, referring to talks over reviving a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as it expands surveillance in countries where the disease is not typically found.

(Reuters) – A New York judge approved a new congressional map that pits two veteran Democratic incumbents against one another and boosts Republican odds of capturing more seats in November’s midterm elections, further endangering Democrats’ fragile U.S.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and his new South Korean counterpart agreed yesterday to hold bigger military drills and deploy more U.S.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and his new South Korean counterpart agreed today to hold bigger military drills and deploy more U.S.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia’s opposition Labour Party appeared on track to win today’s general election, television stations projected, as voters deserted the ruling conservative coalition in favour of climate-focussed independents and smaller parties.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia moved nearer to control over Ukraine’s Donbas region, claiming victory in the months-long battle for Mariupol’s steel plant and launching a major offensive on the remaining Ukrainian-held territory in the province of Luhansk.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and his new South Korean counterpart will search for ways today to break a diplomatic stalemate with North Korea, as they worry Kim Jong Un could lash out with new nuclear tests.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump has paid a $110,000 fine for his failure to respond to a subpoena in a civil investigation into his business practices, a spokesperson for the New York attorney general said on Friday.

KYIV/SLATYNE, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region, the focus of recent Russian offensives, has been destroyed, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as some of the world’s richest countries pledged to bolster Kyiv with billions of dollars.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Vangelis, the Greek composer whose rousing electronic theme music for the Oscar-winning 1981 film “Chariots of Fire” became one of the most loved movie scores, has died at the age of 79.