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MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today he had decided to continue in office, days after abruptly announcing he was considering his future following the launch of a corruption investigation against his wife.

MAI MAHIU, Kenya, (Reuters) – At least 42 people have been killed in floods in central Kenya’s Mai Mahiu area after a dam burst early today, and the number of deaths could rise, police said.

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s top commander said on Sunday Kyiv’s outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where Russia has concentrated significant forces in several locations.

STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) – Nine men go on trial in Germany on Monday charged with high treason, attempted murder and plotting a violent coup d’etat aimed at installing an aristocrat as national leader and imposing martial law.

CAIRO/DOHA (Reuters) – A Hamas delegation will visit Cairo on Monday for talks aimed at securing a ceasefire, a Hamas official told Reuters on Sunday, as mediators stepped up efforts to reach a deal ahead of an expected Israeli assault on the southern city of Rafah.

(Reuters) – Protests at U.S. universities showed no sign of slowing over the weekend, with more arrests on campuses and a brief skirmish between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators at California’s UCLA, where a tent encampment was set up last week.

(Reuters) – At least four people died, including a four-month-old baby, and scores were injured in Oklahoma this weekend after dozens of twisters swept the U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Fighting in eastern Ukraine has worsened and Kyiv’s troops have fallen back to new positions in at least three places along the front, Ukraine’s top general said today.

RIYADH,  (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and several international officials will be in Riyadh this week for talks aimed at pushing for a peace agreement in Gaza to be held on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting, the WEF’s president said on Saturday.

LISBON, (Reuters) – Portugal’s government said yesterday it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, contrary to earlier comments from President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia’s industrial production and investments are stagnating, its exports of goods are continuing to deteriorate and profitability in most industries is declining, a think tank close to the government has said in a report.

MADRID,  (Reuters) –  Thou-sands of Socialist Party supporters travelled from across Spain for a rally in Madrid yesterday to call on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to stay on, after he stunned the country this week by saying he might quit the premiership.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council yesterday expressed its “deep concern” over an imminent attack on al-Fashir in Sudan’s North Darfur region by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack pounded power facilities in the centre and west of Ukraine today, mounting pressure on the ailing energy system as the country faces a shortage of air defences despite a breakthrough in U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Hamas said it had received yesterday Israel’s official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it before submitting its reply, the group’s deputy Gaza chief said in a statement.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed for good a lawsuit accusing Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting a former teenage model twice in one day in the mid-1970s.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Columbia University’s embattled president came under renewed pressure yesterday as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified yesterday at Donald Trump’s criminal trial that he suppressed a story about an alleged affair to help Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, even though it would have boosted sales of his tabloid.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – The capsizing of a boat carrying childhood vaccines and health workers in Tuvalu underscored the challenges of healthcare in remote Pacific Islands as they battle extreme weather caused by climate change, the U.N

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Azerbaijan, host of this year’s U.N. climate summit, will defend the right of oil and gas producing nations to invest in the sector, the country’s president said yesterday, noting that despite climate targets, fossil fuel demand remains strong.