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MADRID,  (Reuters) – A former Mexican beauty queen and a Romanian-Dutch accomplice have been arrested in Croatia over the theft of $1.7 million worth of prestige bottles of wine in Spain after a nine-month chase across Europe, police said yesterday.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new president today, hoping his long experience in government would help pull the country out of a crippling economic and political crisis.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain’s next prime minister after they won the final lawmaker vote, setting up the last stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new president today, hoping his long experience in government would help pull the country out of a crippling economic and political crisis.

SAN JUAN,  (Reuters) – Singer and actor Ricky Martin is scheduled to appear tomorrow in a Puerto Rico court where a judge will decide whether to extend a restraining order taken out by a man who said Martin harassed him, which the pop icon denies.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran yesterday, stressing closer ties in the face of Western pressure over the war in Ukraine, where Russian forces struck more targets across the country.

(Reuters) – Brazil has a strong track record of free, fair and transparent elections and the United Sates trusts that its electoral system will reflect the will of the people in the October election, a U.S.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s government warned yesterday that it would take “forceful measures” if U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British former finance minister Rishi Sunak held on to his lead yesterday among Conservative lawmakers in the race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister, but his two remaining rivals were closing the gap, leaving the race wide open.

YAOUNDE,  (Reuters) – Cameroon’s anti-corruption agency is investigating claims by miner and commodities trader Glencore Plc GLEN.L

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce new federal measures aimed at the climate crisis tomorrow during a trip to Massachusetts, but will stop short of declaring a climate emergency, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s former finance minister Rishi Sunak held onto his lead in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister yesterday as another hopeful was knocked out, leaving four candidates in an increasingly bitter contest to replace Boris Johnson.

OAKLAND,  (Reuters) – Truck drivers choked traffic at the Oakland, California, seaport yesterday protesting a state law that makes it harder for independent contractors to transport goods and could limit labor at the state’s already clogged seaports, threatening to worsen the nation’s pandemic-fueled supply chain jams.

LONDON/PARIS  (Reuters) – Firefighters in southwestern France battled today to contain massive forest wildfires and Britain recorded its highest ever temperature as a heatwave rising from the south settled over western Europe.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The five Conservative contenders still vying to be Britain’s next prime minister clashed over tax cuts in a second televised debate yesterday, with the two frontrunners – Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss – stepping up their battle on the economy.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has not decided whether to build one, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Qatar’s al Jazeera TV yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia is preparing for the next stage of its offensive in Ukraine, a Ukrainian military official said, after Moscow said its forces would step up military operations in “all operational areas”.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A gunman killed three people when he opened fire in the food court of a shopping mall outside Indianapolis yesterday before a bystander fatally shot the assailant, Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison said.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Technical personnel at Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA and firefighters were putting out a fire on a natural gas pipeline in the country’s east, Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said on Twitter yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Major crude oil producers have spare capacity and are likely to boost supplies following President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East, a senior U.S.