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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a programme that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation was unlawful, but said current enrollees could renew their status and sent the case back to a lower court to consider a new Biden administration regulation.

KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of the partially Russian-occupied southern regions that Moscow claims to have annexed.

(Reuters) – The deaths of dozens of young children in Gambia from acute kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

VIENNA/LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ agreed steep oil production cuts today, curbing supply in an already tight market, causing one of its biggest clashes with the West as the U.S.

VIENNA/LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ agreed steep oil production cuts today, curbing supply in an already tight market, causing one of its biggest clashes with the West as the U.S.

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s military had made major, rapid advances against Russian forces in the past week, taking back dozens of towns in regions in the south and east that Russia has declared annexed.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity yesterday after a grid failure, a government official said, adding that authorities were working to gradually restore power supply in the country of 168 million people.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Two substances in the saliva of wax worms – moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs – readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a potential advance in the global fight against plastic pollution.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday said the Army is working on a proposal to create its own commercial airline, confirming reports from a leak of government documents last week.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, opening the door to work on super computers and encrypted communication.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has asked Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw some of the oil blocks it has put up for auction in order to protect forests, he said yesterday on the sidelines of a climate conference in Kinshasa.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Police in Haiti fired tear gas yesterday at thousands of protesters marching in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, against Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s government and its handling of crippling fuel shortages and soaring prices.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is setting up tents to treat cholera in Haiti and will also request a supply of oral vaccines against the disease that has unexpectedly returned to a country paralysed by a gang blockade, a WHO spokesperson said.

(Reuters) – Loretta Lynn, the coal miner’s daughter and moonshiner’s wife who became one of American country music’s biggest stars and a leading feminist in the genre, died yesterday at the age of 90, her family said on Twitter.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has asked Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw some of the oil blocks it has put up for auction in order to protect forests, he said on Tuesday on the sidelines of a climate conference in Kinshasa.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced yesterday into a humiliating U-turn after less than a month in power, reversing a cut to the highest rate of income tax that helped spark turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party.

SEOUL/TOKYO, (Reuters) – Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years yesterday, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension of train operations in northern Japan.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began, bursting through the front and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River yesterday, threatening to encircle thousands of Russian troops.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation yesterday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages and claiming that the network had carried out a “campaign of libel and slander” against him.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began, bursting through the front and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River today, threatening to encircle thousands of Russian troops.