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ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – The United States and United Arab Emirates have reached an agreement to spend $100 billion on clean energy projects with a goal of adding 100 gigawatts globally by 2035, U.S.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s attorney general has detained seven people, including former officials, as part of an investigation into suspected corruption in state oil company Petroecuador, it said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Rapper Takeoff, a member of the influential, Atlanta-based rap group Migos, was shot and killed at a party held at a Houston bowling alley early yesterday.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch government intends to levy a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies retroactively for the year 2022, it said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Home Secretary Suella Braverman faced heavy criticism today for describing the arrival of asylum seekers as an invasion, with lawmakers across the political spectrum warning of the risk of using inflammatory language.

(Reuters) – Serial entrepreneur Oleg Tinkov has renounced his Russian citizenship, saying he does not want to be associated with “fascism” or people who collaborate with “killers”.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and a decision to freeze participation in a Black Sea grain export programme were responses to a drone attack on Moscow’s fleet in Crimea that he blamed on Ukraine.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – The man accused of bludgeoning U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer after forcing his way into the couple’s home threatened to take her hostage and break her kneecaps if she lied under his questioning, according to a federal criminal complaint filed yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump’s real estate company cheated tax authorities for 15 years, a prosecutor said yesterday in her opening statement in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial, while defense lawyers countered that the company’s longtime chief financial officer had acted for his own benefit.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former heavyweight boxer from Montenegro was charged by the U.S.

(Reuters) – The aftermath of a large star’s explosive death is seen in an image released on Monday by the European Southern Observatory, showing immense filaments of brightly shining gas that was blasted into space during the supernova.

AHMEDABAD,  (Reuters) – Seven members of the Jadeja family were returning from a temple in the Indian town of Morbi on Sunday when the children asked to be taken to a suspension bridge, a local tourist attraction that had reopened after repairs.

(Reuters) – An international climate summit starting next week in Egypt will test the resolve of nations to combat global warming, even as many of the biggest players are distracted by urgent crises ranging from war in Europe to rampant consumer inflation.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ships brought grain from Ukrainian ports today, suggesting Moscow had stopped short of reimposing a blockade that might have caused world hunger, despite suspending its participation in a U.N.

AHMEDABAD,  (Reuters) – At least 132 people were killed in the western Indian state of Gujarat yesterday when a footbridge packed with sightseers enjoying holiday festivities collapsed and plunged them into the river below.

MOGADISHU,  (Reuters) – The two car bombs that exploded at Somalia’s education ministry next to a busy market intersection killed at least 100 people and wounded 300, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said yesterday, warning the death toll could rise.

DOVER, England,  (Reuters) – A man threw petrol bombs attached to fireworks at a centre for processing migrants in the southern English port of Dover yesterday and then killed himself, a Reuters photographer said.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Protests in Iran entered a more violent phase yesterday as students, who defied an ultimatum by the Revolutionary Guards and a warning from the president, were met with tear gas and gunfire from security forces, social media videos showed.

AHMEDABAD, India,  (Reuters) – At least 81 people were killed when a pedestrian bridge over a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat collapsed, plunging hundreds of people into the water, officials said.

MOGADISHU,  (Reuters) – The two car bombs that exploded at Somalia’s education ministry, next to a busy market intersection, killed at least 100 people and wounded 300, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said today, warning the death toll could rise.