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COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s government imposed a weekend curfew yesterday, even as hundreds of lawyers urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to revoke a state of emergency introduced following unrest over fuel and other shortages in a deep economic crisis.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan suggested yesterday that he might not accept a vote to oust him, a move he alleged was being orchestrated by the United States.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – A United Nations-led truce in Yemen is a “decisive moment” in the near seven-year conflict and offers hope the warring parties and international community can bring a lasting peace to the devastated country, a senior U.S.

 ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The Red Cross was renewing efforts to evacuate civilians in a convoy from the besieged port of Mariupol today as Russian forces looked to be regrouping for fresh attacks in southeast Ukraine.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan suggested today that he might not accept a vote to oust him, a move he alleged was being orchestrated by the United States.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis came the closest he has yet to implicitly criticising President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying today a “potentate” was fomenting conflicts for nationalist interests.

DMYTRIVKA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine recaptured more territory around Kyiv from Russian soldiers who left shattered villages and their own abandoned tanks as they moved away from the capital, while a disputed cross-border strike in Russia complicated peace talks yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States will work with allies to transfer Soviet-made tanks to Ukraine to bolster its defenses in the Donbas region, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing a U.S.

 MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – The director of Nicaragua’s La Prensa newspaper was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison for money laundering, according to his relatives, in the latest sentencing of a government opponent detained at the order of the administration.

BRUSSELS/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China offered the European Union assurances yesterday that it would seek peace in Ukraine but said this would be on its own terms, deflecting pressure for a tougher stance towards Russia.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lan-kan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a nationwide public emergency late yesterday following violent protests over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.

ADEN,  (Reuters) – The warring sides in Yemen’s seven-year conflict have for the first time in years agreed a nationwide truce, which would also allow fuel imports into Houthi-held areas and some flights operating from Sanaa airport, the U.N.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Workers at an Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O warehouse in New York City voted to form the first union at the second-largest U.S.

(Reuters) – Actor Will Smith has resigned from Hollywood’s Aca-demy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying yesterday that his slapping of presenter Chris Rock on stage at this year’s Oscars ceremony was “shocking, painful and inexcusable.”

IRPIN, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – A fuel depot was ablaze at one of Russia’s main logistics hubs for its Ukraine war effort today, after what Moscow described as a cross-border air raid by Ukrainian helicopters, the first of its kind in the five week war.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – European governments and companies were working today on a common approach to Russia’s demand that they pay for its gas in roubles as the threat of an imminent supply halt eased.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Russia will increase its use of non-Western currencies for trade with countries such as India, its foreign minister said today, as he hailed New Delhi as a friend that was not taking a “one-sided view” on the Ukraine war.

TROSTYANETS/LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – European buyers of Russian gas faced a deadline to start paying in roubles yesterday, while negotiations aimed at ending the five-week war were set to resume even as Ukraine braced for further attacks in the south and east.

HONG KONG/SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – China yesterday blamed the resignation of two senior British judges from Hong Kong’s highest court on “British pressure” against a sweeping national security law which makes dissent in the former British colony a crime punishable by jail.

LONDON/BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s government is developing a bill that would give the local oil and gas sector incentives to ramp up investment in domestic production, including easing access to foreign exchange markets, according to sources and a draft law seen by Reuters.