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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.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York judge today 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 today, police said.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping pledged yesterday to step up China’s support across debt-laden Africa with funding of nearly $51 billion over three years, backing for more infrastructure projects, and the creation of at least 1 million jobs.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Georgia state officials yesterday arrested the father of the 14-year-old suspected in a school shooting that killed four people and wounded nine others on Wednesday, saying the father knowingly allowed his son to have the murder weapon.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Royal Bank of Canada’s RY.TO ousted CFO Nadine Ahn denied all allegations in the lender’s counterclaim in response to her lawsuit for wrongful dismissal, according to a defense filing on Thursday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday accused Donald Trump’s lawyers of trying to stop potentially damaging evidence of his effort to overturn his 2020 election loss from becoming public before the Nov.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Geespace, a company backed by Chinese automaker Geely 0175.HK,

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping pledged today to step up China’s support across debt-laden Africa with funding of nearly $51 billion over three years, backing for more infrastructure projects, and the creation of at least 1 million jobs.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s unprecedented arrest and court-martial of a former spy chief raises the heat on Imran Khan and could be the precursor to prosecuting the jailed former prime minister on charges of treason and attempting to incite a mutiny in the military, according to government officials and analysts.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, as his new prime minister today, in a bid to put an end to political paralysis following an inconclusive snap election.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – A 14-year-old boy killed two fellow students and two teachers and wounded nine others in a shooting at a Georgia high school yesterday, jolting the United States with the first mass campus shooting since the start of the school year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. yesterday filed money-laundering charges against two employees of Russian state media network RT for what officials said was a scheme to hire an American company to produce online content to influence the 2024 presidential election.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro yesterday asked the attorney general’s office to investigate the $11 million purchase of Pegasus spy software, which he said could have been used to spy on opposition politicians during the previous administration.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings by the government, construction industry and, most of all, the firms involved in fitting the exterior with flammable cladding.

KYIV, (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed and 271 wounded when Russia hit a military institute in Ukraine’s central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles yesterday, the war’s deadliest single attack this year.