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WINDHOEK,  (Reuters) – Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across southern Africa, the environment ministry said.

QUETTA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – At least 73 people were killed in Pakistan’s province of Balochistan when separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways and security forces launched retaliatory operations, officials said yesterday.

ARBAAT, Sudan,  (Reuters) – Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United Nations said yesterday, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war.

CAIRO/GAZA  (Reuters) – Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip late on Sunday, forcing more families to flee, saying its forces intended to act against militant group Hamas and others operating in the area.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a statement late yesterday expressing deep concern “over the deteriorating situation in Libya resulting from unilateral decisions.”

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada, following the lead of the United States and European Union, said yesterday it would impose a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese electric vehicles and also announced a 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum from China.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 200 missiles and drones yesterday, killing seven people and striking energy facilities nationwide, Kyiv said, while neighbouring NATO member Poland reported a drone had probably entered its airspace.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada is reducing by tens of thousands the number of temporary foreign workers it brings in, reversing some expansions to the programme it made in 2022 as the government struggles to bring down numbers of temporary residents.

MADRID/SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez starts his second visit this year to West Africa tomorrow, aiming to curb migration to the Canary Islands and to counter the Russian presence in the Sahel region.

QUETTA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Separatist militant attacks on police stations, railway lines and highways in Pakistan’s restive province of Balochistan, coupled with retaliatory operations by security forces, killed at least 51 people, officials said today.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early yesterday, as Israel’s military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a larger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early today, as Israel’s military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a bigger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Bourget airport outside Paris last evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unnamed sources.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Gaza ceasefire and hostage negotiators discussed new compromise proposals in Cairo yetserday, seeking to bridge gaps between Israel and Hamas, but there was no indication of progress after hours of talks.

(Trinidad Guardian) Businessman Lawrence Duprey has died. Sources have confirmed this to Guardian Media.

MONTREAL,  (Reuters) – The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered yesterday a halt to work stoppages at the country’s largest railways, signaling an end to an unprecedented service disruption at both main freight rail carriers that threatened to hammer the country’s export-driven economy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing’s BA.N

KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian “drone missile” yesterday that he said would take the war back to Russia and scornfully derided Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “sick old man from Red Square”.

SOLINGEN, Germany, (Reuters) – A man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody, a state official told German television yesterday, some 24 hours after the attack that killed three people.

SOLINGEN, Germany,  (Reuters) – Police hunted today for an unknown assailant hours after he killed three people and wounded others in a stabbing attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen.