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TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada is increasingly relying on temporary residents to meet its labour force needs, according to a Reuters analysis of official data, but this phenomenon makes workers vulnerable and fails to provide wage growth or stability to businesses, warn workers, advocates, economists and industry groups.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – The Taliban have told airlines in Afghanistan that women cannot board domestic or international flights without a male chaperone, two sources told Reuters today.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Rockets struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv yesterday, signalling a potential new front in Moscow’s invasion as U.S.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell said yesterday Iran and world powers were “very close” to agreement on reviving their 2015 nuclear deal, which would curb Tehran’s nuclear programme in exchange for lifting tough sanctions.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian company that owns 410 square kilometers (158 square miles) of Amazon rainforest is offering a new way to fund conservation: selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that allow buyers to sponsor the preservation of specific areas of jungle.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said today that Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” in a fiery speech pushing the world’s democracies to unite to support Ukraine, though the White House later said Biden was not calling for regime change in Moscow.

WARSAW,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with top Ukrainian government officials in Warsaw on today, and branded Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher” during a meeting with refugees who have fled the war in Ukraine to the Polish capital.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russian forces have taken control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, the governor of Kyiv region said today, and fighting was reported in the streets of the besieged southern port of Mariupol.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – The “monster” Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) shown this week in North Korean state media after the country’s biggest test-fire ever is likely from an earlier launch, analysts said after examining the images and video.

BUCHA/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Moscow signalled yesterday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the East as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv.

(Reuters) – An East Antarctica ice shelf disintegrated this month following a period of extreme heat in the region, according to scientists.

DENVER,  (Reuters) – A federal court jury yesterday awarded $14 million to a dozen activists who sued Denver police, claiming excessive force was used against peaceful protesters during racial injustice demonstrations following the death of George Floyd in 2020.

BRUSSELS/LONDON,  (Reuters) – The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union this year to help it wean off Russian energy supplies, the transatlantic partners said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – In a scaled-back formulation of its war goals, Russia said today that the first phase of its military operation was mostly complete and it would focus on completely “liberating” Ukraine’s breakaway eastern Donbass region.

BUCHA/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops are recapturing towns east of Kyiv and Russian forces who had been trying to seize the capital are falling back on overextended supply lines, Britain said today, one of the strongest indications yet of a shift in momentum in the war.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Gazprom GAZP.MM

(Reuters) – China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as sanctions mount over the invasion of Ukraine.

LVIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday that Ukrainians “need to achieve peace” and halt Russian bombardment that has forced millions to flee to countries like Poland, where U.S.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana’s finance minister yesterday announced sweeping spending cuts to reduce the deficit, contain rising inflation and slow the cedi’s slide, with the country facing a looming debt crisis.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said it tested a new, powerful type of intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday, marking an end to a self-imposed moratorium on long-range testing in place since 2017 and drawing international condemnation.