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(Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo yesterday rejected allegations of corruption and told Congress, which passed a motion to impeach him earlier this week, that all branches of government are in crisis right now.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, a rare show of unity in the deeply divided Congress.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian court yesterday upheld a ban on wearing of the hijab in classrooms in the southern state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest of the country which has a big Muslim minority.

LVIV, Ukraine/KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian air strikes and shelling smashed into buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv today as invading forces tightened their grip, while a convoy of civilians headed out of the besieged port city of Mariupol for safer parts.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain imposed sanctions on hundreds of Russian individuals and entities today, using a new law to catch up with the European Union and United States in targeting people accused of propping up Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian court today upheld  a ban on wearing of the hijab in classrooms in the southern state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest of the country which has a big Muslim minority.

LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The United States warned China after “intense” talks yesterday against helping Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine, while an anti-war protester interrupted Russian state TV news in an extraordinary act of dissent.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Police yesterday evicted squatters who had occupied a London mansion belonging to the family of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who was placed on Britain’s sanctions list last week in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Chiribiquete national park saw “major deforestation” between September 2021 and February of this year, an environmental monitoring group said on Monday, warning that the destruction hampered conservation of the Amazon.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – An Australian court yesterday overturned a groundbreaking ruling from last year that required the country’s environment minister to consider the harm to children from climate change as part of the approval process for a coal mine.

ROME/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan today raised concerns about China’s alignment with Russia in a seven-hour meeting with Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi as Washington warned of the isolation and penalties Beijing will face if it helps Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said it had begun “hard” talks on a ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of troops and security guarantees with Russia today, despite the fatal shelling of a residential building in Kyiv.

 VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Russian Patriarch Kirill’s full-throated blessing for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has splintered the worldwide Orthodox Church and unleashed an internal rebellion that experts say is unprecedented.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Squatters have occupied the London mansion suspected of belonging to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who was placed on Britain’s sanctions list last week, unfurling a Ukrainian flag and a banner saying ‘This property has been liberated’.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine stepped up yesterday, with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators set to talk again after both sides cited progress, even after Russia attacked a base near the Polish border and fighting raged elsewhere.

(Reuters) – William Hurt, an Oscar-winning actor known for his roles in movies such as “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and “Broadcast News,” died yesterday at the age of 71, according to Deadline.

ERBIL, Iraq,  (Reuters) – Iran attacked Iraq’s northern city of Erbil yesterday with a dozen ballistic missiles in an unprecedented assault on the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region that appeared to target the United States and its allies.

(Reuters) – Russian and Ukrainian officials gave their most upbeat assessments yet today of progress in their talks on the war in Ukraine, suggesting there could be positive results within days.

LVIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack on a large Ukrainian military facility near the border with NATO member Poland today killed 35 people and wounded 134, a Ukrainian official said.

ERBIL, Iraq,  (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed responsibility for a dozen ballistic missiles that struck Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil in the early hours of today, Iran’s state media reported, adding that the attack was against Israeli “strategic centres” in Erbil.