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KYIV/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s allies on Wednesday announced delivery of new air defences and committed more military aid to Kyiv after intense Russian missile strikes and in anticipation of fighting through a harsh winter.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly today 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.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian health authorities said on Wednesday they had halted all production of New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals after a WHO report that its cough and cold syrups exported to Gambia may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children there.

ROME,  (Reuters) – When Aboubakar Soumahoro was a teenager in his native Ivory Coast, he used to clean shoes and dream of going to Italy, filling a scrapbook with pictures of Italian fashion designs that he cut out of magazines.

(Reuters) – The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, the U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday he doubted whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would use a tactical nuclear weapon as Ukraine pleaded for a rapid increase in Western military aid to defend against missile strikes on its cities.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general yesterday filed a so-called constitutional complaint against President Pedro Castillo, opening a new legal battle that opposition forces hope could lead to his ouster.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden pledged yesterday “there will be consequences” for U.S.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund warned today of a disorderly repricing in markets, saying global financial stability risks have increased, raising the risks of contagion and spillovers of stress between markets.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine vowed to strengthen its armed forces after Russia launched its biggest aerial assaults on cities since the beginning of the war, forcing thousands to flee to bomb shelters and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports to Europe.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee called yesterday for a freeze on cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including most arms sales, accusing the kingdom of helping underwrite the Russian war on Ukraine after OPEC+ announced last week it would cut oil production.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities yesterday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country’s vital energy sector.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia fired cruise missiles at cities across Ukraine during rush hour this morning, killing civilians and knocking out power and heat, in what President Vladimir Putin declared to be revenge for Ukrainian attacks including on a bridge to Crimea.

TAIPEI,  (Reuters) – War between Taiwan and China is “absolutely not an option”, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said today, as she reiterated her willingness to talk to Beijing and also pledged to boost the island’s defences including with precision missiles.

WASHINGTON/LONDON, (Reuters) – The OPEC+ organization’s decision last week to cut oil production despite stiff U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of orchestrating the explosion of a key bridge linking Russia and Crimea, an act he described as terrorism.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said there is scope to slow the economy based on an “exceptionally high number” of job vacancies in the labor market.

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand, (Reuters) – A three-year-old child who managed to survive last week’s massacre at a nursery in northeast Thailand slumbered through the horror under a blanket in the corner of a classroom.

KYIV, (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack early today struck an apartment block and other residential buildings in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people and injuring 87 others, including 10 children, Ukrainian officials said.

KYIV, (Reuters) – A powerful blast damaged Russia’s road-and-rail bridge to Crimea on Saturday, hitting a prestigious symbol of Moscow’s annexation of the peninsula and the key supply route to forces battling to hold territory captured in southern Ukraine.