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LISBON,  (Reuters) – Portugal’s parliament yesterday dismissed a proposal by the far-right to charge the country’s president with treason over his support for reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism.

HANDLOVA, Slovakia,  (Reuters) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries today when he was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination that stunned his small Central European nation and drew a chorus of international condemnation.

 (Reuters) – A large wildfire is slowly approaching the major Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray and around 6,000 people in four suburbs have been told to evacuate, local officials said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen faced aggressive questioning yesterday from the Republican presidential candidate’s defense lawyers, who sought to undermine Cohen’s testimony that Trump was intricately involved in a scheme to buy a porn star’s silence.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Rafah yesterday, reaching some residential areas of the southern Gazan border city where more than a million people had sought shelter, and its forces pounded the enclave’s north in some of the fiercest attacks in months.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – U.S. and British officials warned today of a growing cyber threat from China, with the White House cyber director saying Beijing was capable of causing havoc in cyberspace and a UK spy agency chief warning of an “epoch-defining” challenge.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended himself against criticism that he is stoking divisions between Hindus and Muslims to win national elections as he filed his nomination today for re-election from one of Hinduism’s holiest cities.

TBILISI,  (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliament today passed the third and final reading of a “foreign agents” bill, clearing a major hurdle on its way to becoming law.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israeli forces pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza’s northern edge yesterday to recapture an area from Hamas fighters, while in the south tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah, leaving Palestinian civilians scrambling to find safety.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen told jurors yesterday that the Republican presidential candidate personally approved a hush money payment to bury a porn star’s story of a sexual encounter before it could derail his 2016 campaign.

(Reuters) – Twelve breast cancer genes identified in women of African ancestry in a large study published yesterday may one day help better predict their risk for the disease and highlights potential risk differences from women of European descent.

(Reuters) – ChatGPT maker OpenAI said yesterday it would release a new AI model called GPT-4o, capable of realistic voice conversation and able to interact across text and image, its latest move to stay ahead in a race to dominate the emerging technology.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France won a record 15 billion euros ($16.17 billion) in foreign investment pledges today, allowing President Emmanuel Macron to bask in the limelight with global CEOs and forget about strained public finances and weak polls for a while.

HYDERABAD/SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – India voted today in the fourth phase of a seven-week long general election, as campaign rhetoric became more strident over economic disparities and religious divisions.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a surprise new defence minister, nominating civilian Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics, for the job more than two years into the Ukraine war, the Kremlin said.

(Reuters) – Kuwait formed a new cabinet headed by Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Sabah, according to a royal decree issued Sunday.

NAHRIN, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Flash floods caused by heavy rains have devastated villages in northern Afghanistan, killing 315 people and injuring more than 1,600, authorities said on Sunday, as villagers buried their dead and aid agencies warned of widening havoc.

TORONTO (Reuters) – The season’s first major wildfires have spread to roughly 8,000 hectares across Western Canada on Sunday as authorities issued an evacuation order for a community in British Columbia and warned of poor air quality across provinces.

(Reuters)  Dozens of students walked out of Duke University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday as some chanted “free Palestine” to protest its guest speaker, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who has supported Israel throughout the war in Gaza, according to a video posted on social media.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended a decision to pause a delivery to Israel of 3,500 bombs over concerns they could be used in the Gazan city of Rafah, saying Israel lacked a “credible plan” to protect some 1.4 million civilians sheltering there.