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TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Clashes rocked Libya’s capital early yesterday as the parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, tried to take over government there but was forced back out by a rival administration that refuses to cede power.

BUFFALO, N.Y., (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday condemned white supremacy, the media, the internet and politics for spreading racist conspiracy theories as he mourned the killing of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday the U.S.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Shanghai achieved its long-awaited milestone of three consecutive days with no new COVID-19 cases outside quarantine zones today but most residents will have to put up with confinement for a while longer before resuming more normal life.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Clashes erupted in Libya’s capital today as the parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, tried to take over government there but was forced back by a rival administration that refuses to cede power.

KYIV/NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said yesterday it was working to evacuate all remaining troops from their last stronghold in the besieged port of Mariupol, ceding control of the city to Russia after months of bombardment.

BUFFALO, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – The 18-year-old man accused of the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, visited the city in March and the day before the rampage, police said on Monday, as public figures decried the suspect’s racist ideology and the spread of white supremacy.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s new prime minister said today the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country’s power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-government protests.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Sweden’s government has formally decided to apply for NATO membership, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said today, setting it on the road toward ending military non-alignment that lasted throughout the Cold War.

BUFFALO, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – A white teenager who killed 10 people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a Black neighbourhood had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities said.

RUSKA LOZOVA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine yesterday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium.

BERN,  (Reuters) – Switzerland’s fabled neutral status is about to face its biggest test in decades, with the defence ministry tilting closer to Western military powers in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson will seek broad support for an application to join NATO tomorrow, she announced today after her party dropped its long-standing opposition to membership in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia has probably lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region “has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule”, British military intelligence said today.

BERN,  (Reuters) – Switzerland’s fabled neutral status is about to face its biggest test in decades, with the defence ministry tilting closer to Western military powers in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

(Reuters) – An 18-year-old white gunman shot 10 people to death and wounded three others at a grocery store in a Black neighbourhood of Buffalo, New York, before surrendering after what authorities called an act of “racially motivated violent extremism.”

KYIV/BEZRUKY, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have launched a counteroffensive near the Russian-held town of Izium in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said yesterday, in what could prove a serious setback for Moscow’s plans to capture the entire Donbas region.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday a total of 42 people had died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown aimed at stopping the impoverished country’s first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak.

 (Reuters) – An 18-year-old white gunman shot 10 people to death and wounded three others at a grocery store in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, before surrendering after what authorities called an act of “racially motivated violent extremism.”

SHANGHAI/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Shanghai was tightening its COVID-19 lockdown for what it hoped would be the final week of its battle with the virus before it could gradually begin to ease restrictions, while Beijing kept fighting its much smaller but persistent outbreak.