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GENEVA/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Switzerland for all its snow-capped mountains and crisp Alpine air has failed to protect its people from the ravages of climate change, as a top European court ruled this week.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Long-simmering tensions between China and its neighbors took centre stage yesterday as leaders of the U.S.,

(Reuters) – Russia, Germany and Britain yesterday urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and Israel said it was preparing to “meet all its security needs” in a region on edge over an Iranian threat to strike Israel.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The climate targets verification group that announced a plan this week to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain with carbon credits came under new pressure on Thursday to drop the policy.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – O.J. Simpson, the American football star and actor who was sensationally acquitted in 1995 of murdering his former wife in what U.S.

NIAMEY,  (Reuters) – Military instructors and personnel from Russia’s defence ministry arrived in Niger on Wednesday, Niger state television RTN said, in a further sign the West African country is building closer relations with Moscow like its junta-led neighbours.

(Reuters) – The village of Kaminskoye in Russia’s Kurgan region was being evacuated last night after the water level there rose 1.4 metres (4.59 ft) overnight, regional governor Vadim Shumkov said on the Telegram messaging app.

(Field Level Media) O.J. Simpson, a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back who was accused of, and ultimately acquitted, in the 1994 killings of his former wife and her friend in “The Trial of the Century,” has died after a battle with cancer.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine today, officials said, ramping up pressure on the embattled energy system as Kyiv runs low on air defences.

ORENBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels today after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – A court in Vietnam handed the death sentence today to real estate tycoon Truong My Lan for her role in a 304-trillion-dong ($12.5-billion) financial fraud, the country’s biggest on record, state media said.

NEW YOR (Reuters) – U.S. stocks tumbled to a lower close on Wednesday after hotter-than-expected inflation data threw cold water on hopes that the Federal Reserve would begin cutting interest rates as early as June.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) said on Wednesday it suspended flights to and from Tehran from April 6 until probably April 11, “due to the current situation in the Middle East”.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian Islamist group and Haniyeh’s family said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York appeals judge on Wednesday denied Donald Trump’s third last-ditch attempt this week to delay his April 15 criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, paving the way for the first-ever trial of a former U.S.

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas is on a hunger strike at a prison in Guayaquil to protest his arrest, his lawyer Sonia Vera said in a message posted on X on Wednesday.

ORENBURG, Russia,  (Reuters) – Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan today after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to perjury charges for lying to investigators and a judge about Donald Trump’s finances.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court admonished the head of a state drugs regulator for failing to take action against a popular yoga guru’s firm which claimed its traditional ayurvedic medicines can cure chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma.

STRASBOURG, France, (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government’s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heatwaves.