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(Reuters) – Services from airlines to healthcare, shipping and finance were coming back online on Friday after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long global computer systems outages, another incident highlighting the vulnerability of the world’s interconnected technologies.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ highest court said that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and all states should cooperate to bring an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, in an important advisory opinion issued yesterday.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – The Bangladesh government has decided to impose a curfew across the country and deploy the army, BBC Bangla reported yesterday, citing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s press secretary, amid widening student-led protests against government job quotas.

(Reuters) – A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance today before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards digital, interconnected technologies.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ highest court said that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and all states should cooperate to bring an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, in an important advisory opinion issued on Friday.

MILWAUKEE/REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump described yesterday how he narrowly survived an attempt on his life, telling a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention in his first speech since the attack that he was only there “by the grace of Almighty God.”

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Telecommunications were widely disrupted in Bangladesh yesterday amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen people have been killed this week.

ROME, (Reuters) – A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of 5,000 euros ($5,465) for making fun of her in a social media post, news agency ANSA and other local media reported.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court yesterday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans.

STRASBOURG, (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was elected for a second term today after pledging to create a continental “defence union” and stay the course on Europe’s green transition while cushioning its burden on industry.

KIGALI, (Reuters) – Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has been re-elected with 99.18% of the vote, the National Electoral Commission said today, extending his near quarter-century in office.

MILWAUKEE,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, U.S. Senator J.D.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Top Democrats including U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have increased pressure on President Joe Biden to withdraw from his reelection campaign over concerns he cannot defeat Republican challenger Donald Trump, U.S.

BUTLER, Pennsylvania, (Reuters) – – Thomas Crooks was pacing next to a warehouse building outside the Butler Farm Show grounds as a crowd gathered for one of former President Donald Trump’s signature outdoor rallies.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk MAERSKb.CO said yesterday that disruption to its container shipping via the Red Sea had extended beyond trade routes between the Far East and Europe to its entire global network.

MILWAUKEE, July 16 (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former leading rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, offered full-throated endorsements of his candidacy at the party’s convention on Tuesday, a display of unity three days after Trump survived an assassination attempt.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was convicted yesterday on all 16 criminal counts he faced including bribery at his corruption trial in Manhattan federal court, completing the once-powerful New Jersey Democrat’s dramatic downfall.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating the Secret Service’s planning of the weekend rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a man tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Torrential rain on Tuesday triggered flash flooding in parts of Toronto, Canada’s financial center, causing power outages, disrupting traffic and forcing airlines to curtail service.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – More than 10 million Sudanese, or 20% of the population, have been driven from their homes since the war there began, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said yesterday, as the world’s largest displacement crisis continues to worsen.