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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.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian court rejected on Tuesday an appeal against last month’s arrest of key opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, an order that comes as a disappointment to the opposition ten days before general elections.

NIAGARA FALLS, New York, (Reuters) – Throngs of skywatchers across North America gazed upward at a blackened sun in the midday dusk yesterday, celebrating with cheers, music and matrimony the first total solar eclipse to darken the continent in seven years.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas rejected an Israeli ceasefire proposal made at talks in Cairo, a senior Hamas official said on Monday, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a date was set for an invasion of Rafah, Gaza’s last refuge for displaced Palestinians.

BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China on Monday that Washington will not accept new industries being decimated by Chinese imports, as she wrapped up four days of meetings to press her case for Beijing to rein in excess industrial capacity.

(Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council president on Monday referred the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the world body to the committee on the admission of new member.