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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister yesterday for a third term, after a shock election setback that will test his ability to ensure policy certainty in a coalition government in the world’s most populous nation.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government on Sunday, withdrawing the only centrist power in the embattled leader’s far-right coalition amid a months-long war in Gaza.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials expect the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy democracies to send a tough new warning next week to smaller Chinese banks to stop assisting Russia in evading Western sanctions, according to two people familiar with the matter.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Far-right parties made gains in elections to the European Parliament on Sunday, prompting a bruised French President Emmanuel Macron to call a shock election and adding uncertainty to Europe’s future political direction.

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have for the first time hit a latest-generation Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet at an air base inside Russia, Kyiv’s GUR defence intelligence agency said on Sunday, showing satellite pictures which it said confirmed the strike.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron rolled the dice on his political future today, calling snap legislative elections for later this month after he was trounced in the European Union voteby Marine Le Pen’s far-right party.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Two ships caught on fire after being hit by projectiles off Yemen’s Aden, two UK maritime agencies reported today.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Flying back from a meditation break at the end of India’s gruelling election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote in a column that he felt a “boundless flow of energy” within himself.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israeli forces rescued four hostages held by Hamas since October in a raid in Gaza yesterday that Palestinian officials said killed more than 200 people, one of the single bloodiest Israeli assaults of the eight-month-old war.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Fresh from commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed U.S.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Vulnerable, low-paid Filipinos have been exploited, tricked and abused under a migrant worker scheme launched by South Korea to plug its severe labour shortage, an investigation by the Thomson Reuters Foundation has found.

WASHINGTON/LONDON, (Reuters) – Three U.S. lawmakers have called for more scrutiny of NewsBreak, a popular news aggregation app in the United States, after Reuters reported it has Chinese origins and has used artificial intelligence tools to produce erroneous stories.

(Reuters) – Virgin Galactic SPCE.N flew four tourists to the edge of space and back aboard its spaceplane, marking the second flight this year, the Richard Branson-founded company said yesterday.

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo,  (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist rebels killed at least 38 people in an overnight attack on villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, two district officials and a civil society leader said on Saturday.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The Israeli military said it rescued four hostages held since October in a raid in the central Gaza Strip today while Palestinian officials said an Israeli attack in the same area killed more than 50 people.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters)  – South African opposition parties said yesterday they were waiting for more details on a proposal by the African National Congress to form a government of national unity after it lost its majority for the first time in the democratic era.

AYODHYA, India, (Reuters) –  The opening of a grand Hindu temple just three months ahead of India’s general election was supposed to be a crowning moment for populist prime minister Narendra Modi that would carry his party to a dominant victory with its Hindu-first agenda.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East next week, the U.S.

POINTE DU HOC, France, (Reuters) –  Atop the cliff that U.S. Army Rangers scaled 80 years ago on D-Day, Presi-dent Joe Biden on Friday compared the threats posed by Nazi Germany to those facing the world today by dictators and authoritarianism, and urged Americans to resist isolationism.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance formally presented its claim yesterday to form a government, as Modi promised that his new coalition of 15 parties would strive for unanimity and emerge successful.