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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, under pressure over high inflation, sought to mobilize his left-leaning base yesterday by promising to sign a law to codify abortion rights in January if Democrats control the legislature next year.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Mali’s foreign affairs minister yesterday said the military government would exercise its right to self-defence if France continued to undermine the West African country’s sovereignty and national security.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, under renewed pressure over high inflation with mid-term elections approaching, said today he will sign a law to codify abortion rights in January if Democrats control the legislature next year.

KYIV/MYKOLAIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said Russia had destroyed almost a third of its power stations over the past week as Moscow stepped up a pre-winter campaign to strike infrastructure, a move the West says is a calculated attempt to disrupt and demoralise.

ALMATY, (Reuters) – Sensing that Russia has been weakened by its war in Ukraine, some of its closest allies in Central Asia are displaying a newly assertive streak.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration has spoken with energy companies as it considers a plan to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to both push down oil prices for consumers and support longer-term demand for producers, two sources familiar with the matter said.

KYIV/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will hold Russia accountable for “war crimes”, the White House said on Monday, hours after Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones during morning rush hour, killing at least four people in an apartment building in Kyiv.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s government bonds, currency and shares rallied yesterday as new finance minister Jeremy Hunt reversed much of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic growth plan, the latest twist after several weeks of turmoil in UK politics and markets.

(Reuters) – The world’s largest financial institutions increased their backing of companies in the agriculture, forestry and land use sectors most responsible for deforestation in 2021, a new study showed on Tuesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has set Russia on a path towards turmoil that could unseat the Kremlin chief, trigger civil war or even break the country apart, said a Russian diplomat who resigned over the war.

LONDON, (Reuters) – New finance minister Jeremy Hunt scrapped Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic plan and scaled back her vast energy subsidy today, launching one of the biggest U-turns in British fiscal policy to stem a dramatic loss of investor confidence.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones today, killing at least three people in an apartment building in downtown Kyiv during morning rush hour, and targeting infrastructure across the country in the second big wave of air strikes in a week.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping called for accelerating the building of a world-class military while touting the fight against COVID-19 as he kicked off a Communist Party Congress by focussing on security and reiterating policy priorities.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ordered an investigation on Monday into the Unification Church, after the assassination of former premier Shinzo Abe in July revealed close ties between it and the ruling party.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping called for accelerating the building of a world-class military while touting the fight against COVID-19 as he kicked off a Communist Party Congress by focussing on security and reiterating policy priorities.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A fire broke out on Saturday in Tehran’s Evin prison, where many of Iran’s political and dual-national detainees are held, and witnesses reported hearing gunfire.

(Reuters) – Two women have been charged with criminal damage after climate change protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers” at London’s National Gallery, British police said on Saturday.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Saturday he had summoned the U.S.

(Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead 11 people at a Russian military training ground on Saturday, the defence ministry said, in the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin’s forces since the invasion of Ukraine.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The mayor of a small northern Mexican town and a group of local officials kidnapped by armed men have been freed, the governor of the border state of Coahuila said on Saturday.