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LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised to parliament on Tuesday after he was fined by police for breaking lockdown rules, saying he did not know a birthday gathering at the height of the pandemic was in breach of the rules he had set.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House announced yesterday that it has finalized regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects like highways and pipelines that would consider their climate impacts and other factors.

(Al Jazeera) Medan, Indonesia – Even by the standards of a justice system known for drama, a US court’s latest ruling in a case pitting Indonesian villagers against one of the world’s most powerful oil companies was unusual enough to raise eyebrows.

(Reuters) – A Black man who was killed by a Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer during a traffic stop earlier this month, sparking protests in the city, was shot in the back of the head, a forensic pathologist who performed an independent autopsy said yesterday.

KYIV/KHARKIV,  (Reuters) – Russia launched its long-awaited all-out assault on east Ukraine today, seizing its first town after unleashing thousands of troops in what Ukraine has described as the Battle of the Donbas, a campaign to take two provinces.

LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A Pakistani mob lynching of a Sri Lankan manager of a garment factory who was accused of blasphemy was an act against the Islamic religion, a court said in a detailed ruling today.

BANGKOK,  (Reuters) – The leader of one of Thailand’s biggest political parties apologised today over the conduct of a former executive accused by more than a dozen women of sexual abuse in what some activists have called the country’s first “MeToo” moment.

LVIV/KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said Russia had started an anticipated new offensive in the east of the country, with explosions reported all along the front lines as well as attacks in other regions.

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s president yesterday excoriated opposition lawmakers for voting down a major electricity reform, though business groups were cheered by Sunday’s vote, which lifted some of the investor uncertainty clouding the country’s energy market.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Then-President Donald Trump attempted a coup on Jan.

LVIV/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities said a Russian missile attack killed seven people in Lviv today, the first civilian victims in the western city, while its forces were preventing Russia from taking full control of the port city of Mariupol in the east where the situation was “extremely difficult”.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Then-President Donald Trump attempted a coup on Jan.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran’s armed forces will target Israel’s heart if it makes “the slightest move” against the Islamic Republic, President Ebrahim Raisi told a military parade today, amid stalled talks between Tehran and world powers to revive a 2015 nuclear pact.

LVIV/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian authorities condemned Russian artillery attacks on cities in the northeast and the continuing siege of the southern port city of Mariupol, of which Moscow said it had taken almost full control, following almost two months of bloody fighting.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Clashes in Jerusalem that have stoked tensions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan spread into yesterday, triggering 18 arrests and putting further strain on Israel’s coalition government.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Global Citizen, an international non-profit aiming to help end poverty, said yesterday it plans to launch six funds of up to $1 billion each focused on generating environmental and social impact in the developing world.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Indians have the freedom to practice their faith and there is no growing intolerance between religious communities, the country’s minority affairs minister said in an interview published yesterday amid spurts of religious riots in various parts of the country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned a British plan to send tens of thousands of asylum seekers to the East African country of Rwanda, saying the policy did not stand “the judgment of God”.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian soldiers appeared to defy a Russian ultimatum to lay down their arms today in the pulverised port of Mariupol which Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized in what would be its biggest prize of the nearly two-month war.