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MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) –  At least 30 people have died and thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes as storms and heavy rainfall continue to lash Central America,  according to local officials, with the constant downpours flooding rivers, destroying homes, triggering landslides and cutting off entire communities.

QUITO/HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s state oil company, Petroecuador, has declared force majeure over deliveries of Napo heavy crude for exports following the shutdown of a key pipeline and oil wells due to heavy rains hitting the country, sources said yesterday.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian long-range attack drones struck four Russian oil refineries as well as radar stations and other military targets in Russia in a major attack in the early hours of yesterday, Kyiv’s military said.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda has signed a pact with a business association from the United Arab Emirates to build a new international airport, President Yoweri Museveni’s office said on Friday.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China yesterday threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists, a ratcheting up of pressure even though Chinese courts have no jurisdiction on the democratically governed island.

(Reuters) – More than 250 million years ago, Scotland was not veiled in mist and rain, as it often is today, but rather a desert blanketed in sand dunes.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China today threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists, a ratcheting up of pressure even though Chinese courts have no jurisdiction on the democratically governed island.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian long-range attack drones struck four Russian oil refineries as well as radar stations and other military targets in Russia in a major attack in the early hours of today, Kyiv’s military said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that climate change may again help to fuel record-breaking heat that could surpass last summer as the warmest in 2,000 years.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Several Israeli air strikes in the central and northern Gaza Strip overnight and into yesterday killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens of others, according to medics, while tanks deepened their invasion into Rafah in the south, residents said.

(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a podcast released yesterday said that students graduating from U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration yesterday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo saying that Russia’s influence over the company poses a significant security risk.

(Reuters) – Hawaii yesterday agreed to settle a lawsuit by 13 young people alleging the U.S.

(Reuters) – Donald Suther-land, one of Canada’s most versatile and gifted actors, who charmed and enthralled audiences in movies such as “M*A*S*H,” “Klute,” “Ordinary People” and “The Hunger Games,” has died at the age of 88.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wanted to build a “reliable security architecture” in the Asia-Pacific region during a state visit to Vietnam on Thursday, part of a trip to Asia seen as show of defiance to the West.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that climate change may again help to fuel record-breaking heat that could surpass last summer as the warmest in 2,000 years.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The campaign chief for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives stepped aside two weeks before an election, the party said on Thursday, after reports he and his candidate wife were being investigated for betting on the election date.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Planning authorities should have considered the impact of climate-warming emissions in approving an oil well near Gatwick Airport, the UK’s highest court said today, a ruling activists say could profoundly impact new fossil fuel projects in Britain.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli tanks backed by warplanes and drones advanced deeper into the western part of the Gaza Strip city of Rafah yesterday, killing eight people, according to residents and Palestinian medics.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Global fossil fuel consumption and energy emissions hit all-time highs in 2023, even as fossil fuels’ share of the global energy mix decreased slightly on the year, the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy report said yesterday.