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OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada yesterday said it plans to ban the use of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British police ended their investigation yesterday into COVID-19 lockdown parties held at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office, having handed out 126 fines in a scandal that had called into question his leadership.

MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Canada’s public health agency yesterday confirmed the first two cases of monkeypox virus infections in the country after authorities in Quebec province said they were investigating 17 suspected cases.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved nearly $40 billion in new aid for Ukraine today sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law as Washington races to keep military assistance flowing nearly three months after Russia’s invasion.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British police ended their investigation today into COVID-19 lockdown parties held at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office, having handed out 126 fines in a scandal that had called into question his leadership.

KYIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Moscow said nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Russian-held Mariupol as it shored up a key gain in the south, while the United States became the latest Western country to reopen its embassy in Kyiv.

BRUSSELS/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – Finland and Sweden formally applied to join the NATO alliance yesterday, a decision spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but face objections from Turkey to an accession process that is expected to take only a few weeks.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Gerhard Schroeder’s publicly funded office is to be closed and its remaining staff reallocated amid mounting dismay at the former German chancellor’s refusal to distance himself from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

DUBLIN, (Reuters) – Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald yesterday said Britain’s proposals to override some post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland were “astonishing” and yet another move by London that only serves to boost the Irish nationalist party’s quest for a united Ireland.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – The leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged his party and its allies had lost their parliamentary majority in elections but said no single group had taken it, in his first televised speech since Sunday’s election “Unlike the situation in parliament in 2018, no political group can claim a majority,” he said.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile’s top court yesterday turned down appeals filed by communities and environmentalists against the controversial Dominga mining project, saying a final decision needs input from President Gabriel Boric’s administration.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Commission yesterday unveiled a 210 billion euro plan for Europe to end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels by 2027, and to use the pivot away from Moscow to quicken its transition to green energy.

(Reuters) – The world’s oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine threatened global climate commitments.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Gerhard Schroeder’s publicly funded office is to be closed and its remaining staff reallocated amid mounting dismay at the former German chancellor’s refusal to distance himself from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Commission today unveiled a 210 billion euro plan for Europe to end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels by 2027, and to use the pivot away from Moscow to quicken its transition to green energy.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Concerns grew yesterday for the welfare of more than 250 Ukrainian fighters who surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol after weeks of desperate resistance.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un slammed his country’s response to its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak as immature, accusing government officials of inadequacies and inertia as fever cases swept the country, state media reported yesterday.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – President Gabriel Boric’s administration has declared a state of emergency in southern areas of Chile rattled by intensifying violence stemming from an ongoing conflict between the state and indigenous Mapuche groups.

(Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday that he was suing a Supreme Court justice, marking the latest episode in a running showdown between the president and the court that could spill into the country’s upcoming presidential election.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Investigators looking into the crash of a China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS