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HANOI/HAIPHONG, (Reuters) – Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, left dozens dead in northern Vietnam and widespread damage as it churned westwards, preliminary government estimates showed today, while the weather agency warned of more floods and landslides.

CAIRO (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia on Sunday killed Mohammad Morsi, deputy director of the Gaza Civil Emergency Service in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, and four of his family, health officials said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the Ukrainian defensive front lines.

(Reuters) – Kentucky police were searching a remote, heavily wooded area on Sunday for a suspected gunman who authorities say opened fire on vehicles traveling a rural stretch of Interstate 75 on Saturday, shooting and injuring five people.

NEAR ALLENBY BRIDGE CROSSING, West Bank (Reuters) – A gunman from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians at the Allenby Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank before security forces shot him dead on Sunday, Israeli authorities said.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state’s disaster management agency said.

MANILA, (Reuters) – An influential evangelist preacher from the Philippines accused of sex trafficking and sexual abuse has been arrested, the interior minister said today.

NAIROBI/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China stopped short of providing the debt relief sought by many African countries this week, but pledged 360 billion yuan ($50.7 billion) over three years in credit lines and investments.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 24 hours, local medics said yesterday, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the territory.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel, drawing a rebuke from the Israeli foreign minister.

(Reuters) – Kentucky police reported an “active shooter situation” last  evening at Interstate-75 near London, Kentucky, where “numerous persons” have been shot in traffic.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The heads of the U.S. CIA and Britain’s spy service said in an op-ed yesterday that “staying the course” in backing Ukraine’s fight against Russia was more important than ever and they vowed to further their cooperation there and on other challenges.

MOSINEE, Wisconsin,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump pledged in Wisconsin yesterday to throw up unprecedented tariffs and clamp down on immigrants he said are stealing jobs and killing Americans, as he sought to solidify support among working-class and rural whites, a key part of his base.

NAIROBI/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China stopped short of providing the debt relief sought by many African countries this week, but pledged 360 billion yuan ($50.7 billion) over three years in credit lines and investments.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 24 hours, local medics said today, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the territory.

HONG KONG/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Asia’s strongest storm this year, Super Typhoon Yagi, landed in China’s Hainan yesterday, bringing violent gales and heavy rain that triggered widespread power outages, paralysing the tourist island province known as “China’s Hawaii”.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Less than an hour after his 14-year-old son appeared in a Georgia courtroom on murder charges yesterday, Colin Gray found himself in the same courtroom seat, anxiously rocking back and forth as prosecutors accused him of bearing responsibility for the deaths caused by the boy’s rampage.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Friday he will vote for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris over Republican former President Donald Trump in the Nov.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York judge yesterday delayed former U.S.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – A fire killed 17 boys when it ripped through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of yesterday, police said.