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(Reuters) – Somali forces have ended the siege at a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the AFP news agency said in a tweet yesterday, citing a security commander.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on the second anniversary of his attempted poisoning and denounced Russia’s clampdown on freedom of speech.

WIDUCHOWA, Poland, (Reuters) – As thousands of dead fish neared the banks of the Oder River in the village of Widuchowa in western Poland on Aug.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – At least 12 people have been killed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu after al Qaeda-linked militants attacked a hotel, seizing hostages that authorities were battling to free nearly 20 hours later, an intelligence officer said today.

LUANDA, (Reuters) – Angolans head to the polls next week in what is likely to be a tense standoff between a ruling party in power for nearly five decades and an opposition with growing appeal to a frustrated, impoverished youth.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – A Japanese court yesterday ruled that only the child born before a trans woman went through her surgical and legal transition could be recognised legally as her child, while the child born after her transition cannot be, media said.

Santiago,(Reuters) – Chilean legislators will begin random drug testing in the next few days after a proposal making it compulsory was approved last month, despite criticism from some lawmakers.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia reported fresh Ukrainian drone attacks last evening, a day after explosions erupted near military bases in Russian-held areas of Ukraine and Russia itself, apparent displays of Kyiv’s growing ability to pummel Moscow’s assets far from front lines.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican former attorney general Jesus Murillo has been arrested on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, Mexican officials said yesterday.

PRAHOVO, Serbia,  (Reuters) – Europe’s worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War Two near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo.

HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said today she had taken a drugs test in the wake of video footage published earlier this week that showed her partying with friends, and vowed she had never used illegal drugs.

KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The U.N. chief and the presidents of Turkey and Ukraine yesterday discussed ways to end Kyiv’s conflict with Russia and secure Europe’s largest nuclear power station, which has come under shelling at the front lines.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said yesterday the country will never deal with a South Korean proposal to boost the North’s economy in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday said he is leaning toward releasing some of the evidence presented by the U.S.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – It is “reasonable to conclude” that forced labour of members of minority groups has taken place in China’s western Xinjiang region, the UN’s top expert on slavery said in a report released this week, prompting a fierce response from Beijing.

MAYVILLE, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges yesterday and was held without bail.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – It is “reasonable to conclude” that forced labour of members of minority groups has taken place in China’s western Xinjiang region, the UN’s top expert on slavery said in a report released this week, prompting a fierce response from Beijing.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces said yesterday they had beaten back a Russian attack in the southern region of Kherson, while shelling by Kremlin forces in Kharkiv in Ukraine’s north killed seven people as the near six-month war grinds on with no let up in fighting.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – After being soundly rejected by Wyoming Republican voters, U.S.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government is concerned about links between Brazil’s largest drug gang and illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest, a U.S.