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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for helping the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, in what a judge called a “horrific scheme” that inflicted “incalculable” harm on victims.

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Dozens of people were still missing yesterday after a Russian missile strike on a shopping mall in central Ukraine two days ago that killed at least 18, while a regional governor said the situation was “very difficult” in Lysychansk in the east.

SAN ANTONIO, (Reuters) – The death toll of deceased migrants found inside a truck in Texas rose to 50 today, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico

LONDON, (Reuters) – Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska suggested today that no winner would emerge from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and highlighted the economic price that Russia was paying for its actions.

(Reuters) – Battles over abortion shifted to state courts yesterday after the U.S.

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Firefighters and soldiers searched for survivors in the rubble of a shopping mall in central Ukraine yesterday after a Russian missile strike killed at least 16 people in an attack condemned by the United Nations and the West.

(Reuters) – At least 12 people died and 251 were injured in a chlorine gas leak from a storage tank at Jordan’s Aqaba port, officials and state media reported on Monday.

SAN ANTONIO,  (Reuters) – Authorities found 46 migrants dead inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, the city’s fire department said, in what appears to be one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico

CARACAS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s chief hostage negotiator led a U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia defaulted on its international bonds for the first time in more than a century, the White House said, as sweeping sanctions have effectively cut the country off from the global financial system, rendering its assets untouchable.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South African authorities investigating 21 teenagers found dead at an east coast tavern over the weekend said today the youths were probably killed by something they ate, drank or smoked, ruling out the earlier-touted possibility of a stampede.

SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany, (Reuters) – Group of Seven leaders yesterday pledged to raise $600 billion in private and public funds over five years to finance needed infrastructure in developing countries and counter China’s older, multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road project.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South African authorities are investigating the deaths of at least 22 young people found inside a popular tavern in the coastal town of East London, provincial health officials and the presidency said yesterday.

KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russian forces were fighting to achieve one of their strategic objectives in Ukraine as Moscow-backed separatists said they were pushing into Lysychansk, the last major city still held by Ukrainian troops in eastern Luhansk province.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Efforts to draft an ambitious global agreement on halting nature loss ended yesterday with little progress made in the Nairobi negotiations, leaving limited time for brokering a biodiversity pact this year.

SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden told allies “we have to stay together” against Russia, as world leaders met today at a G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps that will be dominated by war in Ukraine and its painful impact on food and energy supplies across the globe.

KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian forces fully occupied the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk yesterday, both sides said, confirming Kyiv’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month following weeks of some of the war’s bloodiest fighting.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government and indigenous leaders met yesterday for the first formal talks since mass protests began in the country two weeks ago, legislature head Virgilio Saquicela said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) ruled yesterday, although WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbreak.

KIGALI, (Reuters) – The Commonwealth made broad commitments yesterday to address climate change and boost trade, concluding a summit aimed at shoring up the relevance of a group that evolved from the British empire.