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BELFAST,  (Reuters) – David Trimble, the Northern Irish leader who steered the region’s Protestant majority into an historic peace deal with their Catholic rivals that earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 77, his family said on Monday.

LANGLEY, British Columbia,  (Reuters) – Three people including the suspected gunman were killed in a series of shootings early on Monday in the Canadian province of British Columbia, police said.

(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military authorities have executed four democracy activists accused of helping carry out “terror acts”, state media said today, the Southeast Asian nation’s first executions in decades.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine pressed ahead yesterday with efforts to restart grain exports from its Black Sea ports under a deal aimed at easing global food shortages but warned deliveries would suffer if a Russian missile strike on Odesa was a sign of more to come.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – A rights group documenting alleged abuses in Sri Lanka has filed a criminal complaint with Singapore’s attorney general, seeking the arrest of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his role in the South Asian nation’s decades-long civil war.

(Reuters) – The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization’s highest level of alert, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said yesterday.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa yesterday, the Ukrainian military said, threatening a deal signed just a day earlier to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease global food shortages caused by the war.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The far-right media personality known as “Baked Alaska” pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to a single misdemeanor charge stemming from his role in the Jan.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms continue to improve and now include “less troublesome” sore throat, runny nose, loose cough and body aches, his physician, Dr.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany should contribute towards the costs of France’s nuclear arsenal as the threat of nuclear war with Russia looms over Europe, German political veteran Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview published yesterday.

(Reuters) – China has issued stark private warnings to the Biden administration about a possible trip to Taiwan in August by U.S.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Mali claimed responsibility on Saturday for an attack on the country’s main military base, which it said was a response to governmental collaboration with Russian mercenaries.

ZURICH/LONDON, (Reuters) – World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today he had to act as a tie-breaker to resolve a disagreement on whether to declare the Monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa today, the Ukrainian military said, threatening a deal signed just the day before to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease global food shortages caused by the war.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The United States promised more military support for Ukraine, including drones, and is doing preliminary work on whether to send fighter aircraft, as fighting raged on in the east of the country five months into Russia’s invasion.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Lawmakers chose India’s first president from the country’s tribal communities on Friday, which could boost the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party among marginalised groups ahead of the 2024 general election.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The World Court yesterday rejected Myanmar’s objections to a genocide case over its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority, paving the way for the case to be heard in full.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Steve Bannon, a key associate of former President Donald Trump and an influential figure on the American right, was convicted on Friday of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee probing last year’s attack on the U.S.

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Rival factions fought each other in Tripoli overnight and into yesterday, killing 13 people in the Libyan capital’s worst clashes for two years as a political standoff festers.

ISTANBUL/KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal today to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasion can be eased.