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BOGOTA, (Reuters) – At least 20 people were killed and 14 more injured on Saturday when a bus crashed on a road between the southwestern Colombian cities of Pasto and Popayan, police said.

 (Reuters) – At least 11 people were killed and 15 more wounded at a Russian military training ground today when two attackers opened fire on a group of volunteers who wished to fight in Ukraine, RIA news agency said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker sparred over a range of issues from abortion and policing to personal integrity on Friday, as a key Georgia contest that could help determine control of the Senate came to a head in a contentious televised debate.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the market and political turmoil gripping the country.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Reinsurer AXIS Capital AXS.N said it would refuse to underwrite energy, mining and other projects that did not have the backing of local indigenous communities, in a move welcomed by campaigners as setting a new industry standard.

(Reuters) – Some of oilfield service firm Schlumberger’s SLB.N more than 9,000 Russian employees have begun receiving military draft notices through work, and the company is not authorizing remote employment to escape mobilization, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – Two brothers were each sentenced to 40 years in prison yesterday after admitting to the murder of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in a stunning turnaround on the first day of their trial.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday said that no one should dare think they can uproot the Islamic Republic, in his toughest warning to protesters since Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody ignited nationwide unrest now in its fourth week.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish actor who played the beloved half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, died yesterday at the age of 72, his agent said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng today and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the market and political turmoil gripping the country.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French food company Danone DANO.PA will shed control of its dairy food business in Russia in a deal that could lead to a write-off of up to 1 billion euros ($978 million), it said today.

VALLETTA, (Reuters) – Two men went on trial today for the murder of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia almost five years ago to the day she died in a car bomb.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives committee probing the Jan.

KYIV/KUPIANSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Evacuees from Ukraine’s southern Kherson region were expected to begin arriving in Russia today after a Moscow-installed official suggested residents should leave for safety, a sign of Moscow’s weakening hold on territory it claims to have annexed.

LONDON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng cut short his trip to Washington for this week’s global finance minister meetings and has headed back to London amid reports Prime Minister Liz Truss is considering reversing more of her government’s controversial “mini-budget”.

(Reuters) – Five people including an off-duty police officer were shot dead in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh yesterday, prompting a massive manhunt that shut down part of city and resulted in the arrest of one suspect, officials said.

KYIV/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Russian missiles have pounded more than 40 Ukrainian cities and towns over the past 24 hours, as NATO allies meeting in Brussels unveiled plans today to jointly beef up Europe’s air defences with Patriot and other missile systems.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian Supreme Court panel said today it was divided over a ban on hijabs in schools, and referred the matter to the chief justice, effectively leaving in place a state’s ruling against the scarves worn by women that has sparked uproar.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly yesterday overwhelmingly condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine and called on all countries not to recognize the move, strengthening a diplomatic international isolation of Moscow since it invaded its neighbour.

OAKLAND, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. is scrambling to tackle unintended consequences of its new export curbs on China’s chip industry that could inadvertently harm the semiconductor supply chain, people familiar with the matter said.