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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.

NARA, Japan, (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died today hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country in which political violence is rare and guns are tightly controlled.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced yesterday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on until his successor was chosen.

KYIV/KRAMATORSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the West of decades of aggression towards Moscow and warned that if it wanted to attempt to beat Russia on the battlefield it was welcome to try, but this would bring tragedy for Ukraine.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – American actor James Caan, who starred as gangster Sonny Corleone in epic mafia film “The Godfather,” has died at age 82, his family said in a statement yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced today he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on until his successor was chosen.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – An Argentine judge sentenced 19 former military officers to prison yesterday for crimes against humanity committed during the country’s brutal military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, including for kidnappings of auto plant workers.