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(Reuters) – The remnants of now-weakened tropical storm Debby triggered flash flooding in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York state that left dozens of people stranded in their homes yesterday, authorities said.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Improving law and order in Bangladesh is a priority for the new caretaker government, the adviser to the interior ministry said today, as the battered nation limps back to normality after Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s BBC said Huw Edwards, its former news anchor who pleaded guilty last month to making indecent pictures of children, should return the salary he was paid after his arrest in November, adding he had not been up front about the charges.

DETROIT,  (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris will debate on Sept.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Three Columbia University deans, who engaged in what the school’s administration called troubling text message exchanges that touched on “ancient antisemitic tropes,” have resigned, a university spokesperson said late yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day yesterday after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world’s biggest nuclear power that has forced Moscow to call in reserves.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former Mozambique finance minister was convicted yesterday on U.S.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s junta has urged its citizens to report suspicious neighbours and activity in the name of national security as the Sahel nation battles a near decade-long jihadist insurgency.

ACCRA, Ghana, (Reuters) – Ghana opened its first commercial gold refinery in Accra, the capital, yesterday as part of an effort by Africa’s leading gold producer to add value and earn more from the precious metal, which has been mined for centuries.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont defied an arrest warrant to appear at a rally in Barcelona on Thursday after seven years of self-imposed exile, before fleeing the scene with the help of a local police officer.

NEUGLOBSOW, Germany, (Reuters) – Scientists in Germany have identified plastic-eating fungi that could offer a glimmer of hope in tackling the problem of millions of tonnes of waste polluting the world’s oceans every year.

(Reuters) – Google is facing a bigger threat from Sam Altman’s OpenAI even as it awaits a decision on how antitrust regulators in Washington plan to level the playing field in the internet search business.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – The 19-year-old Austrian who masterminded a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift fans at a concert in Vienna with a bomb or knife had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group, authorities said today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A heavy security presence, rapid arrests and displays of unity by people across Britain prevented a repeat of widespread rioting involving racist attacks targeting Muslims and migrants, officials said today, adding that they remained on alert.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it was fighting intense battles against Ukrainian forces that had penetrated its southern border near a major natural gas transmission hub, in one of the largest incursions into Russian territory since the war began.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh is set to get a new, interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus today, after weeks of tumultuous student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the South Asian country.

EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin/DETROIT,  (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, put his Midwestern credentials to the test yesterday with rallies in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan.

(Reuters) – Canada will fund an Indigenous-led study into how oil sands development impacts the health of local communities, the government said yesterday, following a tailings water leak from an Imperial Oil IMO.TO site

MORONI,  (Reuters) –  Comoros President Azali Assoumani has granted sweeping new powers to his son, Nour El Fath, allowing him to intervene at all stages of government decision making, after putting him in charge of coordinating government affairs last month.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) –  Thailand’s Constitutional Court yesterday ordered the dissolution of the anti-establishment opposition party Move Forward, ruling its campaign to amend a law that protects the monarchy from criticism risked undermining the democratic system.