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DOHA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – The main U.N. aid agency operating in Gaza said yesterday that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepared to send a delegation to Qatar for new ceasefire talks on a hostage deal with Hamas.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has said that Western investors should not be pressured to sell their Russian assets, a practice he said was dishonest, short-sighted and harmful to the Russian and global economies.

(Reuters) – Russia started its final day of presidential voting yesterday with Moscow accusing Ukraine of using air attacks to try to sabotage the election that is expected to keep President Vladimir Putin in power for another six years.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The U.N. children’s agency said yesterday one of its aid containers at Haiti’s main port, stocked with “essential items for maternal, neonatal and child survival,” was looted, as gangs increasingly control the capital.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – A volcano in Iceland erupted yesterday for the fourth time since December, the country’s meteorological office said, spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air in sharp contrast against the dark night sky.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Repairs on damaged subsea cables that are causing internet outages across West and Central Africa are expected to take at least five weeks before completion and full service restoration, Ghana’s communications regulator said yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A Ukrainian missile attack killed two people in western Russia and a separate drone strike set an oil refinery ablaze today, the second day of an election that President Vladimir Putin has accused Kyiv of trying to disrupt.

GAZA STRIP/CAIRO/DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Israel yesterday approved a potential assault on the Gaza city of Rafah while also keeping ceasefire hopes alive with plans to send another delegation to Qatar for talks on a possible hostage deal with Islamist militant group Hamas.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Nearly five million people in Sudan could suffer catastrophic hunger in parts of the war-torn country in the coming months, United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths warned the Security Council on Friday in a note seen by Reuters.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court, addressing free speech rights in the digital age, decided yesterday that government officials can sometimes be sued under the Constitution’s First Amendment for blocking critics on social media.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s criminal trial stemming from hush money paid to a porn star before the 2016 U.S.

(Reuters) – A Russian missile attack hit civilian infrastructure in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa today, killing at least 14 people and wounding 46 in Moscow’s deadliest attack in weeks, Ukrainian officials said.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today a political funding mechanism scrapped by the Supreme Court as “unconstitutional” was an improvement on the past but a more transparent system should be put in place.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip yesterday, Gaza’s health ministry said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A powerful gang leader in Haiti has issued a threatening message aimed at political leaders who would participate in a planned transition council, as fires broke out amid a fresh surge of violence in the Caribbean nation’s capital.

BOCA CHICA, Texas, (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starship rocket, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, completed nearly an entire test flight through space on its third try on Thursday, getting farther than ever before, but disintegrated on its return to Earth.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Steel Corp X.N, which has agreed to be bought by Japan’s Nippon Steel 5401.T

WASHINGTON,  – Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S.

TEL AVIV,  (Reuters) – Israel will try to “flood” the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid from a variety of entry points, the main military spokesman said yesterday as international pressure mounted to address the growing problem of hunger in the besieged enclave.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – The European Commission said yesterday it was taking Greece to the EU’s top court for failing to revise its flood risk management plans, a key tool for EU countries to prepare themselves against floods.