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(Reuters) – A New York judge’s decision yesterday to set an April 15 trial date for Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money case ups the odds the former president will face at least one verdict that could complicate his bid to retake the White House on Nov.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution today demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and the release of all hostages after the United States abstained from the vote.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump won a bid today to pause his $454 million civil fraud judgment if he posts a smaller $175 million bond within 10 days, in a victory for the former U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia today cast doubt on assertions by the United States that the Islamic State militant group was responsible for a gun attack on a concert hall outside Moscow which killed 137 people and injured 182 more.

MANILA,5 (Reuters) – China warned the Philippines today  to behave cautiously and seek dialogue, saying their relations were at a “crossroads” as new confrontations between their coastguards over maritime claims deepened tensions.

KYIV (Reuters) – Russia struck critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv with missiles early on Sunday, Kyiv said, in a major airstrike that saw one Russian cruise missile briefly fly into Polish airspace according to Warsaw.

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and a staffer were found shot dead in a car early on Sunday, said police in the South American country, which is in the grips of a wave of violence that authorities blame on drug trafficking National police said they were investigating the deaths of Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente, and Jairo Loor, her communications director, after the discovery of their bodies in the province of Manabi.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police arrested three people on Sunday, including a federal lawmaker and former police chief, accused of planning and ordering the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city council member Marielle Franco and her driver.

(Reuters) – Pope Francis at the last minute skipped reading his homily during a Palm Sunday Mass for tens of thousands of people in St.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A member of Israel’s war cabinet said on Sunday he would quit the national emergency government should proposed legislation that continues to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service be passed into law.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – After a whirlwind ascent to the top of Irish politics, Simon Harris has little time and few levers to pull to secure a fourth term for his weary centre-right Fine Gael party and prevent a first government led by left-wing Sinn Fein.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia lowered flags to half-mast today  for a day of mourning after scores of people were gunned down with automatic weapons at a rock concert outside Moscow in the deadliest attack inside Russia for two decades.

NEW DELHI,(Reuters) – A billionaire industrialist and a former Indian Air Force chief on Sunday became the latest prominent figures, including a judge and an ambassador, to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in recent weeks as it seeks to widen its lead over the opposition.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it had arrested all four gunmen suspected of carrying out a shooting massacre in a concert hall near Moscow, and President Vladimir Putin pledged to track down and punish those behind the attack.

CAIRO/GAZA,  (Reuters) – Fighting raged on Saturday around Gaza’s main hospital where Israel says it has so far killed more than 170 gunmen in an extensive raid, which the Palestinian Health Ministry says has also resulted in the deaths of five patients.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Air Force One with President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton aboard was on its final approach to Manila on Nov.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia said today it had arrested 11 people including four suspected gunmen in connection with a shooting rampage that killed 143 people in a concert hall near Moscow, the deadliest attack in Russia for 20 years.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A court in India essentially banned Islamic schools in the country’s most populous state, a move that could further distance many Muslims from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government ahead of national elections.

TEL AVIV,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday that Israel risked further global isolation if it attacks the Palestinian city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire at concertgoers with automatic weapons yesterday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 more in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants.