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NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld William Ruto’s presidential win in a scathing judgment that blasted opposition leader Raila Odinga’s accusations of cheating.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved a new foreign policy doctrine based around the concept of a “Russian World”, a notion that conservative ideologues have used to justify intervention abroad in support of Russian-speakers.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Aug.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party today, vowing to press ahead with promises of tax cuts and to deal with a growing energy crisis.

WELDON, Saskatchewan,  (Reuters) – Canadian police hunted for two suspects in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded at least 15 others mostly in a sparsely populated indigenous community early yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – European leaders yesterday sought to ease the impact of high energy prices across the continent, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned of a difficult winter, even as he reported progress in a counter-offensive against Russian troops.

GAZA,  (Reuters) – Gaza’s ruling Hamas Islamists executed five Palestinians two, two of them on charges of espionage for Israel that dated back to 2015 and 2009, the enclave’s Hamas-run Interior Ministry said.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A critical nuclear power plant in Ukraine again lost external power, international energy officials said yesterday, heightening concerns as the energy battle between Moscow and the West ramped up in recent days amid the ongoing war.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Thousands of Russians filed past the open casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, yesterday with many saying they wanted to honour his memory as “a peacemaker” who dismantled totalitarianism and gave them their freedom.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who could stop it: a 92-year-old Iraqi Shi’ite cleric who proved once again he is the most powerful man in his country.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.,  (Reuters) – For the second time in a week, NASA yesterday aborted an attempt to launch its giant, next-generation rocketship, citing a stubborn fuel leak that the space agency said could delay the debut mission of its moon-to-Mars Artemis programme  by at least several weeks.

KARACHI, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb yesterday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – For the second time in five days, NASA today halted a countdown in progress and postponed a planned attempt to launch the debut test flight of its giant, next-generation rocket, the first mission of the agency’s moon-to-Mars Artemis program.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Thousands of Russians filed past the open casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, today with many saying they wanted to honour his memory as “a peacemaker” who dismantled totalitarianism and gave them their freedom.

KARACHI, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb today with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Rich countries agreed yesterday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the re-opening of its main gas pipeline to Germany, as both sides raised the stakes in an energy war between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its Aug.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, with China threatening to take counter measures.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India’s first home-built aircraft carrier yesterday, underlining his government’s efforts to boost domestic production to supply a military deployed on two contentious borders.

TAIPEI,  (Reuters) – The shooting down of a drone off the Chinese coast that buzzed a Taiwanese-controlled island was the most “appropriate” thing to do after repeated warnings, and China should exercise restraint, Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday.