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(Reuters) – Twitter on Saturday updated its app in Apple’s App Store to begin charging $8 for sought-after blue check verification marks, in Elon Musk’s first major revision of the social media platform.

(Reuters) – Nurses in Britain will go on strike, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said on Saturday, an action that will add to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s challenges during an economic crisis.

(Reuters) – Israeli soldiers fatally shot a Palestinian 18-year-old in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, health officials said, the latest in a string of deadly incidents in the territory.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterdayy condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked “crossing a line” in the international community by resorting to nuclear force.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – A union representing 55,000 education workers went on strike yesterday in Canada’s most populous province of Ontario after failing to reach an agreement with the provincial government for better pay and more frontline staff in schools.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump adviser Kash Patel yesterday confirmed that he testified to the grand jury hearing evidence in the federal probe of whether the former president illegally took classified records with him when he left the White House in 2021.

FRONTLINE WEST OF KHERSON, Ukraine/KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the evacuation of civilians from parts of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region yesterday, the latest sign of Russia’s retreat in one of the most bitterly contested areas in Ukraine.

(Reuters) – Twitter has laid off 50% of its employees, the company’s head of safety and integrity said on Friday in a tweet, while saying that the social media platform’s content moderation capabilities remained in place.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Five women were found dead in a central Mexican state suffering from a wave of violent crime against women, local authorities said yesterday.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz today condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked “crossing a line” in the international community by resorting to nuclear force.

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KYIV, (Reuters) – A Russian-installed official in southern Ukraine said Moscow will likely pull its troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson and urged civilians to leave, possibly signalling a retreat that would be a setback to Russia’s war.

LAHORE,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the shin yesterday when his anti-government protest convoy came under attack in the east of the country in what his aides said was a clear assassination attempt by his rivals.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada will do targeted draws for skilled immigrants for the first time starting next year, allowing it to cherry pick applicants with the most in-demand skills for the regions of the country that most need workers, the federal immigration minister told Reuters.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s lower house of parliament suspended its session on Thursday after a far-right MP shouted, “Go back to Africa!”

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Delhi’s 20 million residents were effectively breathing smoke today as the air quality index (AQI) breached the “severe” and “hazardous” categories in nearly all monitoring stations of the Indian capital, raising calls to close schools.

LAHORE, (Reuters) – Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was wounded in the shin today when his convoy was shot at in the country’s east on Thursday, an aide said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Employees and agents of a British subsidiary of mining and trading group Glencore GLEN.L

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said yesterday that threats by some Republican candidates to refuse to accept results from the Nov.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – The Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray agreed yesterday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough two years into a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and left hundreds of thousands facing famine.