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RAFAH, Gaza,  (Reuters) – A baby girl who was delivered from her dying mother’s womb in a Gaza hospital following an Israeli airstrike has herself died after just a few days of life, the doctor who was caring for her said yesterday.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – The chairman of Vietnam’s parliament Vuong Dinh Hue resigned over unspecified “violations and shortcomings”, the ruling Communist Party said yesterday, a new sign of political turbulence weeks after the dismissal of the country’s president.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concerns today about China’s support for Russia’s military, one of the many issues threatening to sour the recent improvement in relations between the world’s biggest economies.

(Reuters) – Burkina Faso has suspended the radio broadcasts of BBC Africa and the U.S-funded

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The  Supreme Court’s conservative justices signaled support yesterday for U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Renewed  clashes between police and students opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza broke out yesterday, raising questions about forceful methods being used to shut down protests that have intensified since mass arrests at Columbia University last week.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape was overturned by New York’s highest court, reopening the landmark case that fueled the #MeToo movement and highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men accountable.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape was overturned by New York’s highest court, reopening the landmark case that fueled the #MeToo movement and highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men accountable.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two million people across England and Scotland are still suffering from long COVID symptoms, of whom 381,000 have had their day-to-day activities limited a lot, according to an official study published today.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran’s judiciary confirmed the death sentence of well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi but added that he is entitled to a sentence reduction, state media reported today.

(Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, is among 18 people charged in Arizona with illegally seeking to claim the state’s 2020 electoral votes for the then-U.S.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) –  Israel’s military is poised to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah and assault Hamas hold-outs in the southern Gaza Strip city, a senior Israeli defence official said yesterday, despite international warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A ceremony to install a stalled presidential transition council in Haiti will take place this morning on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince, the  office of outgoing Prime Minis-ter Ariel Henry announced in a statement yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes yesterday closed an investigation into whether former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy in February, citing lack of evidence.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said yesterday he would step back from public duties “for a few days” to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife’s private dealings.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today he would step back from public duties for a week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife’s private dealings.

LISBON, (Reuters) – President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said late yesterday that Portugal was responsible for crimes committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, and suggested there was a need for reparations.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover Seders, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza.

(Reuters) – Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza yesterday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the enclave, warning civilians they were in a “dangerous combat zone”.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A sweeping foreign aid package easily passed the U.S. Congress late yesterday after months of delay, clearing the way for billions of dollars in fresh Ukraine funding amid advances from Russia’s invasion force and Kyiv’s shortages of military supplies.