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(Reuters) – A gunman opened fire at a St. Louis high school on Monday morning, killing at least two people and wounding six others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city’s police commissioner said.

(Reuters) – U.S. students have experienced historic learning setbacks with math and reading scores falling to their lowest levels in years, national exam results released on Monday showed, the latest sign of the damage the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on schoolchildren.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s next prime minister after he won the race today to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an economic downturn set to leave millions of people poorer.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Western countries accused Russia today of plotting to use a threat of a bomb laced with nuclear material as a pretext for escalation in Ukraine, as Moscow evacuated civilians from a southern city in anticipation of a major battle.

(Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed in an air strike during a concert held by an ethnic minority group in conflict with the ruling military, opposition groups, residents and media said today.

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Under pressure in the south of Ukraine, Russia fired missiles and drones into Ukrainian-held Mykolaiv on Sunday, destroying an apartment block in the ship-building city near the front and said the war was trending towards “uncontrolled escalation”.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rishi Sunak looked set to become Britain’s next prime minister after Boris Johnson withdrew from the contest yetserday, saying that although he had enough support to make the final ballot he realised the country and the Conservative Party needed unity.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rishi Sunak looked set to become Britain’s next prime minister after Boris Johnson withdrew from the contest today, saying that although he had enough support to make the final ballot he realised the country and the Conservative Party needed unity.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Cai Qi catapulted to the top rung of China’s leadership today, capping a late career rise that overcame a less than ideal stretch as Beijing’s Communist Party boss.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s crown prince today launched an initiative to attract investments in supply chains to and from the kingdom, with an aim of raising an initial 40 billion riyals ($10.64 billion).

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s former finance minister Rishi Sunak confirmed today he was standing to replace Liz Truss as prime minister.

BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party wrapped up its twice-a-decade congress on Saturday, cementing Xi Jinping’s iron grip on power and revealing a new Central Committee missing two key officials lacking close ties to the leader.

(Reuters) – Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy’s first woman prime minister on Saturday alongside her cabinet team, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two.

(Reuters) – Boris Johnson returned to Britain from holiday on Saturday to consider an audacious bid for a second term as prime minister in a race that could pit him against his former finance minister whose resignation in July helped drive him out of office.

(Reuters) – More than a dozen Russian missiles pounded energy facilities and other infrastructure across Ukraine on Saturday, the Ukrainian air force said, with strikes causing blackouts in parts of different regions.

BERLIN/DUBAI, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched in Berlin today in a show of support for protesters in Iran where unrest ignited by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody entered a sixth week despite a deadly state crackdown.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy’s first woman prime minister on Saturday alongside her cabinet team, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two.

MASERU,  (Reuters) – Voting authorities in Lesotho have said they incorrectly allocated parliamentary seats after an Oct.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese former President Hu Jintao was unexpectedly escorted out of the closing ceremony of a congress of the ruling Communist Party today.

FRONTLINE NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to warn Russia not to blow up a dam that would flood a large area of southern Ukraine, as his forces prepared to push Moscow’s troops from the occupied city of Kherson.