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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump must pay a fine of $10,000 per day starting yesterday until he complies with a subpoena to hand over material about his business practices to New York’s attorney general, a New York judge said, adding that the clock was ticking on completing the probe.

KARACHI, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A suspected female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi yesterday, police and officials said, drawing strong condemnation from Beijing, in the first major attack this year against nationals of long-time ally China working in Pakistan.

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany/KYIV,  (Reuters) – The United States and its allies pledged new packages of ever heavier weapons for Ukraine during a meeting today  at a German air base, brushing off a threat from Moscow that their support for Kyiv could lead to nuclear war.

(Reuters) – A New York judge yesterday held former President Donald Trump in contempt of court for not producing documents subpoenaed in the state attorney general’s civil probe of his business practices, and ordered Trump to be fined $10,000 per day until he complies.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – A U.N. report today called for urgent action to avert a “sand crisis,” including a ban on beach extraction as demand surges to 50 billion tonnes a year amid population growth and urbanisation.

LVIV, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia told the world not to underestimate the considerable risks of nuclear war that it said it wanted to reduce and warned that conventional Western weapons were legitimate targets in Ukraine, where battles raged in the east.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers welcomed news that billionaire Elon Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, was purchasing Twitter Inc TWTR.N,

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – U.S. State Department officials held their first high-level talks with the Brazilian government since 2019 yesterday, reinforcing ties between the Western Hemisphere’s two largest democracies despite their differences over the Ukraine war.

HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – Finland and Sweden will together express their wish to join NATO in May, tabloid newspapers Iltalehti in Finland and Expressen in Sweden reported yesterday, citing sources close to the matter.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed for life without parole yesterday after he was convicted of trying to overthrow the government by financing protests, in a case that Europe’s top court and Western powers say is politically motivated.

April (Reuters) – The first all-private astronaut team ever flown aboard the International Space Station (ISS) safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast yesterday, concluding a two-week science mission hailed as a landmark in commercialized human spaceflight.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The United States will reopen its embassy in Ukraine soon, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today after he and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Kyiv, promising more military aid and hailing the fight against Russia’s invasion.

 (Reuters) – Russia’s ROSN.MM Rosneft failed to sell oil in a jumbo tender after demanding prepayment in roubles, five traders said today, meaning the country’s top oil producer will need to find ways to divert more crude to buyers in Asia through private deals.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An independent report into lockdown gatherings held at Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office and residence is “excoriating” for the British prime minister and will make things “incredibly difficult” for him, the Times said.

KYIV, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv late yesterday and held talks President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an aide to the Ukrainian leader said, as Russia’s invasion entered a third month.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Emmanuel Macron comfortably defeated far-right rival Marine Le Pen yesterday, heading off a political earthquake for Europe but acknowledging dissatisfaction with his first term and saying he would seek to make amends.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Chinese financial hub Shanghai reported 51 new deaths among its COVID-19 patients on April 24, up from 39 the day before, the local government said yesteday.

(Reuters) – A large fire was reported early today at an oil storage facility in the Russian city of Bryansk, Russian news agencies said, citing the emergency services ministry, but gave no details.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Orrin Hatch, the gentlemanly long-serving Republican U.S. senator from Utah who championed deep tax cuts, an anti-terrorism law and a children’s health program while fighting for conservative judicial nominees, died on Saturday at age 88.

TAOS, N.M.,  (Reuters) – Thousands of residents of a northern New Mexico mountain valley were told to evacuate yesterday as a wildfire that has destroyed hundreds of structures threatened to overrun the valley within days, officials said.