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SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest announced yesterday a $500 million commitment towards the launch of a $25 billion international investment fund designed to help Ukraine rebuild after Russia’s invasion.

(Reuters) – A deal aimed at easing global food shortages by helping Ukraine export its agricultural products from Black Sea ports was extended for four months yesterday, though Russia said its own demands were yet to be fully addressed.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – A Dutch court said today that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in 2014 by a Russian-made missile fired from a field in eastern Ukraine and that Russia had overall control of separatist forces at the time when the plane was shot down.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced a string of tax increases and tighter public spending in a tough budget plan today that he said was needed after the blow dealt to the country’s fiscal reputation by former prime minister Liz Truss.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans were projected to win a majority in the U.S.

KYIV/PRZEWODOW, Poland/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Ukraine said it faced fierce fighting in the east from Russian troops that withdrew from Kherson in the south, while NATO and Poland concluded a missile that crashed in Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – NASA’s next-generation rocketship was on course today for a crewless voyage around the moon and back, launched from Florida on its debut flight half a century after the final lunar mission of the Apollo era.

(Reuters) – The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Moscow, the Kremlin and Cuba’s ambassador to Russia said yesterday.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – A missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and not a Russian strike, Poland and NATO said today, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – NASA’s next-generation rocketship was on course today for a crewless voyage around the moon and back, launched from Florida on its debut flight half a century after the final lunar mission of the Apollo era.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said today he has requested an independent investigation into two formal complaints about his behaviour, the latest case of alleged bullying to put pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Poland is likely to request consultations under NATO’s Article 4 after a missile, reportedly Russian-made, struck Polish territory near the border with Ukraine, and raise the issue at a U.N.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday ruled a pandemic-era order used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants to Mexico was unlawful, a decision that could have major implications for U.S.

PALM BEACH, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of U.S.

LAGOS,  (Reuters) – Nigeria has approved the construction of a 1,650 megawatt (MW) hydropower plant at a cost of $3 billion, making it one of the single biggest power projects in the country, the vice president’s spokesperson said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Financial regulators in the Bahamas on Monday appointed liquidators to run FTX’s unit in the country, just days after authorities said they were looking for any “criminal misconduct” by the collapsed crypto exchange.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, (Reuters) – Government ministers and negotiators from nearly 200 countries today began the hard slog of finding common ground for a deal at the annual U.N.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – An employee at Canada’s largest electricity producer Hydro-Quebec who was involved in researching battery materials has been charged with espionage for allegedly trying to steal trade secrets to benefit China, Canadian police said yesterday.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged in blunt talks over Taiwan and North Korea yesterday in a three-hour meeting aimed at preventing strained U.S.-China

(Reuters) – Kari Lake, one of the most high-profile Republican candidates in the midterm elections to embrace former President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in 2020, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona, Edison Research projected on Monday.