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PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s security forces were locked in a fierce gun battle last night with assailants who assassinated President Jovenel Moise at his home overnight, plunging the already impoverished, violence-wracked nation deeper into chaos.

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the assassination of the President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse.

NKANDLA, South Africa, (Reuters) – South African former President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police yesterday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the post-apartheid state’s ability to enforce the rule of law.

(Reuters) – Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a former police captain, won the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor as a moderate who vowed to improve public safety and give voice to working-class residents.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander today condemned the shooting of journalist Peter R.

VENICE BEACH, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Elsa strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane yesterday, hours before an expected landfall on Florida’s northern Gulf Coast, the U.S.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The first indigenous Canadian to assume the post of governor general addressed the public in her first language, Inuktitut,  yesterday and promised to work toward healing the nation at what she described as an “especially reflective time.”

(Hindustan Times) Veteran actor Dilip Kumar has died at the age of 98.

(Reuters) – Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams won the Democratic nomination for New York mayor yesterday, positioning the former police captain who stressed enhancing public safety to become the next leader of America’s largest city.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, known for his work in exposing the criminal underworld, was fighting for his life after being shot on an Amsterdam street, officials said yesterday.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets yesterday to protest uncertainty over the result of the presidential election a month ago, as the confirmation of leftist Pedro Castillo is held up by ballot challenges from his conservative rival.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – A Colombian court yesterday accused 10 members of the military and a civilian of forcibly disappearing 24 people and murdering at least 120 civilians and falsely presenting them as guerrilla fighters who had been killed in combat.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British teenager was found guilty yesterday of murdering two sisters, as part of a pact he believed he had made with demonic forces to kill at least six women every six months in exchange for a future lottery win.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Oil prices were heading towards three-year highs today, towing petrocurrencies and bond yields with them, after the world’s main oil producers failed to agree on production plans.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A top U.N. human rights official has deplored the death in custody of an 84-year-old Indian Christian priest who campaigned for the rights of tribal people and was detained under an anti-terrorism law and denied bail.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Tropical storm Elsa’s centre looked set to exit Cuba late yesterday near Havana, churning on track to Florida although the lopsided weather system was expected to dump heavy rains over the Caribbean’s largest island in its wake.

SURFSIDE, Fla.,  (Reuters) – The death toll from a collapsed Miami-area condominium rose to 28 yesterday after the controlled demolition of the remainder of the building on Sunday night enabled rescuers to expand their search, officials said.

BAUCHI/KADUNA, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – About 150 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, a parent and an administrator said yesterday, and police said they were in hot pursuit alongside military personnel.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Between 800 and 1,500 businesses around the world have been affected by a ransomware attack centered on U.S.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ ministers called off oil output talks yesterday after clashing last week when the United Arab Emirates balked at a proposed eight-month extension to output curbs, meaning no deal to boost production has been agreed.