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(Reuters) – As many as 10 people, including children, were shot and wounded at a city-run water park near Detroit last evening, police said, calling the incident random gunfire.

BUERGENSTOCK, Switzerland,  (Reuters) – World leaders began gathering at a Swiss mountain resort today to pressure Russia to end its war in Ukraine and sketch out a path to peace, but notable absences such as China will blunt the summit’s potential impact.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – A magistrate in Kenya who was shot by a police officer as she presided over a court session has died, the country’s chief justice, Martha Koome, announced today.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, (Reuters) – The African National Congress and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed yesterday to work together in South Africa’s new government of national unity, a step change after 30 years of ANC rule.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said today Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow, demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, (Reuters) – The African National Congress and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed today to work together in South Africa’s new government of national unity, a step change after 30 years of ANC majority rule.

BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy  (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) developed democracies will commit to accelerating their transition away from fossil fuels during this decade, according to a draft of a statement to be issued at the end of their ongoing summit in Italy.

BARI, Italy, (Reuters) – Group of Seven (G7) leaders hold a final day of talks at their annual summit today, with China topping the agenda before Pope Francis puts in a historic appearance to discuss artificial intelligence (AI).

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Hezbollah said it had launched rockets and weaponised drones at nine Israeli military sites in a coordinated attack yesterday, ramping up hostilities on Lebanon’s southern border for the second consecutive day.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, (Reuters) – South Africa’s African National Congress said late yesterday that several other parties had agreed to join it in a unity government but the details were not yet finalised, the night before the newly-elected parliament was due to sit.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – OPEC does not see a peak in oil demand in its long-term forecast and expects demand to grow to 116 million barrels a day by 2045, and may be higher, the secretary general said yesterday.

BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy, (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven major democracies started their annual summit today, many of them under a cloud at home but determined to make a difference on the world stage as they seek to help Ukraine and counter China’s economic ambitions.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Russian forces deliberately used starvation of civilians as a military tactic during the 85-day siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, international legal experts said in a report published today.

DOHA/GENEVA/CAIRO, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday that Hamas had proposed numerous changes, some unworkable, to a U.S.-backed

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Amazon AMZN.O and telecommunications firm Vrio will jointly launch a satellite internet service in seven South American countries, the two parties said yesterday, putting them in direct competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink.

GENEVA/JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – A U.N. inquiry found today that both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes early in the Gaza war, and that Israel’s actions also constituted crimes against humanity because of the immense civilian losses.

BERN, (Reuters) – The lower house of the Swiss parliament voted today to reject a ruling ordering Switzerland to do more to combat global warming in a move that could encourage others to resist the influence of international courts.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Hamas yesterday said its “positive” response to a U.S.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The leader of France’s conservative Republicans called yesterday for an alliance between his party’s candidates and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in a snap parliamentary election – a political shift with wide repercussions.

WILMINGTON, Delaware, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury yesterday of lying about his illegal drug use to buy a gun, making him the first child of a sitting U.S.