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KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday its forces had repelled Russian attacks on a road near the eastern town of Bakhmut, preventing Moscow gaining control of an important Ukrainian supply line.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Huge crowds marched across France yesterday to say “non” to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to make people work longer before retirement, with pressure in the streets intensifying against a government that says it will stand its ground.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Gautam Adani’s crucial $2.5 billion share sale was fully subscribed yesterday as investors pumped funds into his flagship firm, despite a $65 billion rout in the Indian billionaire’s stocks sparked by a short-seller’s report.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Gautam Adani’s crucial $2.5 billion share sale was fully subscribed today as investors pumped funds into his flagship firm, despite a $65 billion rout in the Indian billionaire’s stocks sparked by a short-seller’s report.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s wealth fund, one of the world’s largest investors, posted a record loss of 1.64 trillion crowns ($164.4 billion) for 2022, bringing to an end a three-year run of soaring profits as stocks and bonds were hit by the Ukraine war and inflation.

KYIV, Ukraine/WASHINGTON  (Reuters) – The United States will not provide the F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine has sought in its fight against Russia, President Joe Biden said on Monday, as Russian forces claimed a series of incremental gains in the country’s east.

SANTIAGO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s bid this week to rally support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion during his first South American tour fell flat, with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reiterating his view both parties shared blame.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration yesterday said it will end COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11, nearly three years after the United States imposed sweeping pandemic measures to curb the spread of the illness.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s president yesterday announced a crackdown on transportation of supplies to illegal gold miners in the Yanomami reservation in northern Brazil, hoping to force out the wildcat miners who have caused a humanitarian crisis among the area’s indigenous people.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A suicide bombing at a crowded mosque in Pakistan’s Peshawar killed at least 32 people today, the latest attack targeting police in this northwestern city where Islamist militants remain active.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin faces trial on Monday on U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run up to the invasion of Ukraine, a charge denied by Moscow.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacked Conservative Party chair Nadhim Zahawi on Sunday after an investigation found he committed a serious breach by not being open about a tax probe, the latest scandal to hit one of Sunak’s top ministers.

(Reuters) – The attorney representing the family of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who was fatally beaten by Memphis police officers, called on Sunday for the U.S.

DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel appears to have been behind an overnight drone attack on a military factory in Iran, a U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Republican in the U.S. Congress on Sunday said the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan “are very high,” after a U.S.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – A loud explosion struck a military industry factory near Iran’s central city of Isfahan overnight, in what Tehran said today was a drone strike by unidentified attackers.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacked Conservative Party chair Nadhim Zahawi today after an investigation found he committed a serious breach by not being open about a tax probe, the latest scandalto hit one of Sunak’s top ministers.

(Reuters) – Expedited talks are under way among Kyiv and its allies about Ukraine’s requests for long-range missiles that it says are needed to prevent Russia from destroying Ukrainian cities, a top aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged yesterday a “strong, swift and precise” response to a deadly Palestinian shooting attack near a synagogue on Jerusalem’s outskirts, as its military sent more troops into the occupied West Bank.