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PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) –  Haitian police deployed tear gas to move people back from a security perimeter around the National Palace while soldiers gripping rifles patrolled the international airport’s diplomatic entrance on Tuesday, ahead of a planned change of government.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Mongolia’s government and a coalition of partners have signed a nature finance agreement aimed at protecting 35.6 million acres (144,000 square km) of the country’s lands and waters, including the world’s last great tract of temperate grassland.

NEW YORK, (Reuters)  – The first witness in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified yesterday that he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that might have hurt  Trump’s 2016 presidential bid.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said today that he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a spokesperson.

UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Israel has yet to provide evidence for its accusations that hundreds of staff with the U.N.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York prosecutors said on the first day of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial that the former president broke the law and corrupted the 2016 election by trying to cover up sexual encounters with a porn star and a Playboy model, while his defense lawyer said he committed no crime.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised yesterday to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of parliament finally passed required legislation, delayed for weeks by attempts to alter the plan.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) –  Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan yesterday, as the war in Gaza continued to reverberate through U.S.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Mineral shipments from a Congolese copper and cobalt operation majority-owned by China’s Zijin Mining Group Co.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says his nation does not deserve to be labelled cannibals, and urged the U.S.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – An Australian court has ordered X to hide some posts commenting on the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney, deepening a war of words between the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea fired “several” short-range ballistic missiles today toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, drawing a swift condemnation from Seoul, which called it a grave threat to stability on the Korean peninsula.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned after accepting responsibility for the failures that allowed the devastating Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged today  to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks, telling the upper house of parliament he will force the new legislation through despite its opposition.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Reuters) – Thin with a boyish face and earrings in both ears, 23-year-old Isayah Turner does not look like a stereotypical Trump supporter, who tend to be middle aged or older.

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – At least five rockets were launched from Iraq’s town of Zummar towards a U.S.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Sunday U.S. lawmakers’ support for $60.84 billion more in aid for Ukraine showed that Washington was wading much deeper into a hybrid war against Moscow that would end in humiliation on a par with the Vietnam or Afghanistan conflicts.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday rallied thousands of supporters in Rio de Janeiro in a bid to raise his political capital after losing a bid for reelection to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in October 2022 and facing allegations of involvement in a coup.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China’s Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government today to enact emergency response plans to protect more than 127 million people.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei thanked the country’s armed forces for their attack this month on Israel, saying the country had demonstrated its power regardless of how many targets were hit, Iran’s official news agency reported today.