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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.

(Reuters) – A former New York City employee filed suit on Monday accusing Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting her in 1993, when both worked for the municipal transit police bureau, after she went to him seeking help in navigating a hostile office environment.

SAN JOSE, California,  (Reuters) – Nvidia NVDA.O Chief Executive Jensen Huang yesterday kicked off his company’s annual developer conference with a slew of announcements designed to keep the chip maker in a dominant position in the artificial-intelligence industry.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Western governments lined up yesterday to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin’s landslide reelection as unfair and undemocratic, but China, India and North Korea congratulated the veteran leader on extending his rule by a further six years.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear an ousted New Mexico county commissioner’s challenge to judicial rulings that made him the first person to be disqualified from office under a constitutional provision regarding insurrection for taking part in the Jan.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied a request by Donald Trump’s former aide Peter Navarro to avoid prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for defying a subpoena from a panel that investigated the 2021 Capitol attack.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM/LONDON, (Reuters) – Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Western governments lined up today to condemn Vladimir Putin’s landslide election victory as unfair and undemocratic, but China and North Korea congratulated the veteran Russian leader on extending his rule by a further six years.