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CAIRO/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Israel’s spy chief was due to travel to Qatar yesterday for ceasefire negotiations while the U.S.

(Reuters) – A federal judge in Mississippi yesterday wrapped up sentencing of six white former law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to the “Goon Squad” torture and sexual abuse of two Black men, leaving the defendants each facing from 10 to 40 years in prison.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s financial crime agency arrested Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi yesterday in connection with graft allegations relating to the city’s liquor policy, his party said, a setback for the opposition ahead of elections.

(Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly yesterday unanimously adopted the first global resolution on artificial intelligence that encourages countries to safeguard human rights, protect personal data, and monitor AI for risks.

(Reuters) – The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said on Thursday it has filed a collective complaint to a European rights body to demand that France urgently ensures access to drinking water in its Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe.

(Reuters) – A Russian serial killer known as the “Volga Maniac” was jailed for life yesterday for murdering 31 elderly women, the TASS state news agency reported.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – The government of Trinidad and Tobago has begun talks with the U.S.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – India’s main opposition Congress party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi today of crippling it before the upcoming general election by freezing its accounts in an income tax case.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Republican senators yesterday that Israel will continue its efforts to defeat the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, senators told reporters after he addressed a party lunch.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors have charged Jair Renan Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, for alleged crimes including money laundering and falsifying documents for a bank loan, newspaper O Globo reported yesterday.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – A promising area off Colombia’s coast where Brazil state-run Petrobras PETR4.SA

DUBLIN, (Reuters) – Leo Varadkar said yesterday he would step down as Ireland’s prime minister in a surprise move, saying the country’s coalition government would stand a better chance of reelection under another leader.

WASHINGTON, 0 (Reuters) – U.S. government-chartered helicopter flights began carrying American citizens from the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince yesterday amid rising violence, the State Department said, with a first flight transporting more than 15 people to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

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VIENNA,  (Reuters) – The United States is pressing Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, to drop plans to buy a 1.5 billion euro ($1.6 billion)industrial stake of a Russian tycoon, several people with direct knowledge of the talks said.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israel’s military said today it had killed around 90 gunmen and arrested 160 in a raid on Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, an allegation the Islamist Hamas group denied.

DUBLIN,  (Reuters) – Leo Varadkar said today he would step down as Ireland’s prime minister and the leader of the governing Fine Gael party, in a surprise move which he said was for both personal and political reasons.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spurned a plea from Joe Biden to call off a planned ground assault of Rafah, the last refuge in Gaza for more than a million displaced people, where Israel believes Hamas militants are holed up.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Amnesty International criticised a leaked draft of Saudi Arabia’s first penal code today, saying it would codify practices ranging from flogging to gender discrimination and urging changes to align it with international standards.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of yesterday in Israeli air strikes on Rafah and central parts of the Gaza Strip, Gaza health officials said.