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TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan hopes that the world would sanction China like it is sanctioning Russia for its war on Ukraine if Beijing invaded the island, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said today.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said diplomatic efforts were underway to save the remaining fighters holed up inside the Azovstal steelworks in the city of Mariupol, as more civilians were evacuated from the bombed-out plant.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the IRA, looked set to claim top spot in elections in British-controlled Northern Ireland for the first time yesterday, a historic shift that could bring the once-remote prospect of a united Ireland closer.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency yesterday following a day of anti government strikes and protests over a worsening economic crisis.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Anglo French oil company Perenco has declared force majeure for 150 days following a leak at its Cap Lopez oil terminal in Gabon last week, a company spokesperson said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party lost control of traditional strongholds in London and suffered setbacks elsewhere in local elections, with voters punishing his government over a series of scandals.

SLIAC, Slovakia, (Reuters) – Germany will deliver seven self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said today, in a further reversal of a longtime policy not to send heavy weapons to war zones due to the country’s Nazi past.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has devastated hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions and left doctors without drugs to tackle cancer or the ability to perform surgery, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Authorities in Fiji have seized a $300 million yacht of Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov at the request of the United States, the U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Dairo Antonio Usuga, the accused leader of Colombia’s Clan del Golfo criminal group, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to U.S.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A Mexican journalist was found dead in the northwestern state of Sinaloa yesterday, authorities said, marking the ninth death of a media worker in a unprecedentedly bloody year for the country which has drawn international scrutiny.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Scores of Ukrainian civilians including women and children remained trapped today in underground bunkers at a steel works in the ruined city of Mariupol, although President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to allow them to leave safely.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has recovered more than $23 million stolen from Nigeria by the country’s late military dictator Sani Abacha, it said today, the latest in a series of similar recoveries around the world.

(Reuters) – Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as the official data show, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Civilians including women and children are still trapped inside Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol and a prolonged ceasefire is needed to ensure their evacuation as Russia presses its assault, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Sweden has received assurances from the United States that it would receive support during the period a potential application to join NATO is processed by the 30 nations in the alliance, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said in Washington yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in Havana began issuing a trickle of immigrant visas to Cubans this week, making good on an earlier promise to restart visa processing on the island after a four-year hiatus.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico will increase production of staple foods such as corn, rice and beans as part of a plan agreed with business leaders to control consumer price inflation which is at a two-decade high, Finance Minister Rogelio Ramirez de la O said yesterday.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia on Wednesday extradited Dairo Antonio Usaga, known as Otoniel, an accused drug trafficker and leader of the Clan del Golfo criminal group to the United States, President Ivan Duque said.

(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have indicted three Haitians and one U.S.