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BALMORAL, Scotland,  (Reuters) – Family members rushed to be by the side of Queen Elizabeth after doctors said they were concerned about the health of Britain’s 96-year-old monarch today, saying she should remain under medical supervision.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador reached a preliminary agreement with indigenous groups to declare a temporary moratorium on 16 oil blocks, Energy and Mining Minister Xavier Vera said on Wednesday, a turning point in negotiations aimed at staving off renewed street protests.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s new leader, Liz Truss, capped soaring consumer energy bills for two years today in a package to cushion the economic shock of war in Ukraine that seems likely to cost the country upwards of 100 billion pounds ($115 billion).

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to halt all energy shipments to Europe if Brussels goes ahead with a proposal to cap the price of Russian gas and suggested restricting a U.N.-brokered

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, (Reuters) – The suspect sought by Canadian authorities in a weekend stabbing spree that killed 10 people in and around an indigenous reserve was arrested yesterday but suffered unspecified “medical distress” and died a short time later at a hospital, police said.

MAPUTO,  (Reuters) – At least six people were beheaded and an Italian nun killed on Tuesday by Islamic State-linked insurgents in Mozambique’s Nampula province, authorities said on Wednesday.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Switzerland will seek closer defence and security ties to the European Union and NATO while preserving its traditional neutrality in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the government said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – A group representing the top judges in all 50 states is urging the U.S.

 (Reuters) – Britain’s Cineworld Group CINE.L today filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States as the world’s second-largest cinema chain operator struggles to rein in its massive debt.

TIRANA,  (Reuters) – Albania severed diplomatic relations with Iran today and kicked out its diplomats after a cyberattack in July it blamed on the Islamic Republic, a move Washington supported as it vowed to take action in response to the attack on its NATO ally.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The new British Prime Minister Liz Truss has selected a cabinet where for the first time a white man will not hold one of the country’s four most important ministerial positions.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found in the FBI’s search last month of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

KYIV/VIENNA, (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces shot down five Russian cruise missiles yesterday, most of them in the south, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, but he made no mention of a new military success in the east hinted at by officials earlier.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian police converged on the James Smith Cree Nation yesterday, drawn back to the area by possible sightings of the man wanted in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people, but the suspect remained at large in the third day of an intense manhunt.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May concluded that she was likely to have been unintentionally shot by an Israeli soldier but was not deliberately targeted, the military said on Monday.

JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, Saskatchewan,  (Reuters) – Canadian police yesterday found one of the suspects in a mass stabbing spree dead while the other suspect, his brother, was still on the run and may be injured, officials said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday agreed to appoint a special master to review records seized by the FBI during its unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, a move that is likely to delay the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Liz Truss comes to power on a promise to challenge the so-called “orthodoxy”, demanding faster, radical action to tackle a cost of living crisis and shake the country out of what she says are years of sluggish growth.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province yesterday, the strongest to hit the region since 2017, killing more than 40 people and shaking the provincial capital of Chengdu and more distant provinces.

KYIV, (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog is due to issue a report on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine today, a day after shelling cut its electricity supplies for the second time in two weeks and raised fears of catastrophe.