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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Firebrand Indian politician Arvind Kejriwal has hit the ground running since his surprise release from detention in the midst of a contentious general election, energizing the opposition as it challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S sees it as a “very open question” whether Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro can win re-election if he holds a free vote in July, and Washington is trying to ensure the ballot is credible in the face of significant obstacles, a senior U.S.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters in Peru’s capital marched yesterday to demand the scrapping of a new law that describes transgender people, among others, as having a mental illness so they can access health benefits.

BEIJING/HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China announced “historic” steps today to stabilise its crisis-hit property sector, with the central bank facilitating 1 trillion yuan ($138 billion) in extra funding and easing mortgage rules, and local governments set to buy “some” apartments.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Firebrand Indian politician Arvind Kejriwal has hit the ground running since his surprise release from detention in the midst of a contentious general election, energizing the opposition as it challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – With new photographic and video evidence, an Indian court battle over the origins of the world famous butter chicken is set to get spicier.

BEIJING/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) –  China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin yesterday pledged a “new era” of partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States, which they cast as an aggressive Cold War hegemon sowing chaos across the world.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) –  The Dow Jones industrial average crossed the 40,000 level yesterday for the first time and a world stock index scored a third straight record intraday high on hopes of U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s lawyer yesterday accused star witness Michael Cohen of lying at the former U.S.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Senegal’s prime minister Ousmane Sonko raised the possibility of closing French military bases in the West African country yesterday in a wide-ranging speech that also touched on the euro-backed CFA franc currency, oil and gas deals and LGBTQ rights.

(Reuters) – An American flag was photographed hanging upside down at the Virginia home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, weeks after the Jan.

BEIJING/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned what they cast as increasingly aggressive U.S.

FRANKFURT, (Reuters) – Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska dismissed the latest U.S.

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Palestinians commemorated the 1948 “Nakba” or catastrophe, yesterday, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth of the state of Israel, as fighting raged amid the rubble in Gaza.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) –  Two brothers who studied at the Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology were arrested yesterday on U.S.

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia,  (Reuters) –  Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after he was shot in an assassination attempt when leaving a government meeting yesterday, a government minister said.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy postponed all his foreign trips as Ukraine’s battlefield situation continued to deteriorate yesterday and Kyiv said fighting raged in the northeastern border town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv region.

SYDNEY/PARIS, (Reuters) – France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific island of New Caledonia yesterday after three young indigenous Kanak and a police official were killed in riots over electoral reform.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An increasing number of foreign actors, including non-state actors, are seeking to influence U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to face off in two debates on June 27 and Sept.