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TOKYO/NARA, Japan, (Reuters) – Japan’s conservative coalition government increased its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election yesterday, two days after the assassination of dominant politician and power broker Shinzo Abe.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Congressional investigators into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.

CHASIV YAR/KYIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Rescuers picked through the rubble of an apartment building in eastern Ukraine searching for two dozen people, including a child, feared trapped after a Russian rocket strike on the five-storey building killed 15 people.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will resign as previously announced, the prime minister’s office said last night.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Saturday defended his decision to travel to Saudi Arabia saying human rights would be on his agenda as he gave a preview of a trip on which he aims to reset ties with the crown prince, who he previously denounced as a pariah.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Saudi political dissident Manea al-Yami was killed in Lebanon, the Saudi opposition National Assembly Party (NAAS) and a Lebanese security source said yesterday.

CHASIV YAR/KYIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – At least 15 people were killed and two dozen more are feared trapped after Russian Uragan rockets hit a five-storey apartment block in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local officials said today as rescuers picked their way through rubble.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Gunmen armed with rifles and pistols opened fire at people in a bar in the South African township of Soweto in the early hours of today, killing 15 and wounding nine, police said.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to step down, the country’s parliamentary speaker said yesterday, bowing to intense pressure after a violent day of protests in which demonstrators stormed the president’s official residence and set fire to the prime minister’s home in Colombo.

NARA, Japan, (Reuters) – The man who killed Shinzo Abe believed the former Japanese leader was linked to a religious group he blamed for his mother’s financial ruin and spent months planning the attack with a homemade gun, police told local media on Saturday.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian defenders battled yesterday to contain Russian forces along several fronts, officials said, as the United States urged China to align itself with the West in opposing the invasion following an ill-tempered G20 meeting.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Four further candidates have joined the increasingly crowded field of Conservatives vying to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister, as the committee overseeing the contest looks to speed up the process of whittling down the numbers.

TORONTO (Reuters) – Rogers Communications said that its services were close to fully operational after a massive outage it blamed on a router malfunction after maintenance work.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is willing to resign to make way for all-party government, his office said in a statement today, after thousands of protesters stormed the president’s official residence in Colombo.

NARA, Japan, (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving leader of modern Japan, was gunned down yesterday while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country where guns are tightly controlled and political violence almost unthinkable.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine urged its allies yesterday to send more weapons as its forces dug in to slow Russia’s military advance through the eastern Donbas region, while its chief negotiator said a turning part was approaching in the conflict.

TORONTO/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – A major network outage at one of Canada’s biggest telecom operators shut banking, transport and government access for millions all day on Friday, drawing outrage from customers and adding to criticism over Rogers Telecommunications’ RCIb.TO

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LONDON,  (Reuters) – British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said yesterday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime minister down.

LUANDA/BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa’s second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, has died aged 79, the Angolan presidency said on Facebook today.