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TAIPEI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A delegation of U.S. lawmakers arrived in Taiwan yesterday for a two-day trip during which they will meet President Tsai Ing-wen, the second high-level group to visit while there are military tensions between the self-ruled island and China.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Israel hit Iranian targets in a series of strikes yesterday near the ancestral home region of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, and close to Russia’s main Syrian bases on the Mediterranean coast, regional intelligence and Syrian military sources said.

OAKLAND, Calif,  (Reuters) – America’s tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India’s ancient caste system, with Apple AAPL.O

CAIRO, (Reuters) – At least 41 people were killed and 45 injured in a fire inside a church in the Egyptian city of Giza today, two security sources told Reuters.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga led Kenya’s presidential race, official election results showed yesterday, pushing Deputy President William Ruto into second place.

(Reuters) – Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie remained hospitalized yesterday with serious injuries a day after he was repeatedly stabbed at a public appearance in New York state, while police sought to determine the motive behind an attack that drew international condemnation.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine is targeting Russian soldiers who shoot at an occupied nuclear plant in the south of the country or use it as a base to shoot from, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump signed a statement in June that said all classified material held in boxes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence had been returned to the government, the New York Times reported yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The United States has expressed concern to India that it was used earlier this year to export fuel made from Russian crude to New York through high-seas transfers, a top Indian central banker said yesterday.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga led Kenya’s presidential race, official election results showed yesterday, pushing Deputy President William Ruto into second place.

(Reuters) – Hadi Matar, the suspect in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at an event in New York state, has been charged with attempted murder and is being held without bond, prosecutors in Chautauqua County said on Saturday.

(Reuters) – FBI agents in this week’s search of former U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state yesterday and airlifted to a hospital, police said.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first seven months of the year, preliminary government data showed yesterday, as the region approaches the traditional peak of the annual burning season.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Without providing any proof, the secretary-general of Kenya’s governing party has said there was election rigging, fuelling public anxiety yesterday as media outlets significantly slowed down their unofficial tallies from Tuesday’s tight vote.

(Reuters) – Author Salman Rushdie will likely lose an eye and suffered severed nerves in an arm and damage to his liver after he was stabbed today, his agent said, adding that Rushdie was on a ventilator.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velazquez today said he would resign and withdraw his candidacy for the presidency, after being blacklisted by the United States for alleged “significant” acts of corruption.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain officially declared a drought in parts of England today as households faced new curbs on water usage during a prolonged period of hot and dry weather that has kindled wildfires and tested infrastructure.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. federal agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons when they raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida this week, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Satellite pictures released yesterday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war.