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PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian demonstrators yesterday burned tires and blocked streets of the capital to protest ongoing fuel shortages even as the country’s main fuel terminal renewed deliveries that had been suspended due to an outbreak of gang violence.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A self-portrait of Dutch post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind one of his paintings.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s tourism fund has terminated a high-profile construction contract it awarded last year to a consortium led by a subsidiary of mining and transport firm Grupo Mexico GMEXICOB.MX,

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A self-portrait of Dutch post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind one of his paintings.

ISTANBUL/UNITED NATIONS, New York,  (Reuters) – Ukraine, the United Nations and Turkey hailed progress at talks in Istanbul that aim to resume Black Sea grain exports blocked by Russia and ease the risk of starvation faced by millions, but an end to the war remained far off as heavy shelling continued.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former finance minister Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers yesterday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime minister, while two more rivals were eliminated.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The shooting over the weekend of an official in Brazil’s leftist Workers’ Party (PT) by a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has inflamed fears of more political violence ahead of a heated election in October.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is seen ramping up its battle with 40-year high inflation with a supersized 100 basis points rate hike this month after a grim inflation report showed price pressures accelerating.

LA MACARENA, Colombia  (Reuters) – Colombia’s Meta province, long dependent on oil and gas production for its wealth, is hoping a focus on tourism can help grow its income and support hundreds of families in the region, local officials told Reuters.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. annual consumer prices jumped 9.1% in June, the largest increase in more than four decades, leaving Americans to dig deeper to pay for gasoline, food, healthcare and rents, and the Federal Reserve most certain to hike interest rates by another 75 basis points at the end of the month.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country for the Maldives yesterday, sources told Reuters, hours before he was due to step down amid widespread protests over his handling of a devastating economic crisis.

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday accused Donald Trump of inciting a mob of followers to attack the U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine launched long-range rocket attacks on Russian forces in southern Ukraine and destroyed an ammunition store, its military said, as Russia continued to pound the country’s east.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said yesterday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said today it had carried out a successful long-range rocket strike against Russian forces in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan immigration officials stopped the president’s brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country today, as anger mounted over the island’s worst economic crisis in decades.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – The global price of oil could surge by 40% to around $140 per barrel if a proposed price cap on Russian oil is not adopted, along with sanction exemptions that would allow shipments below that price, a senior U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s new prime minister will be announced on Sept.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, on Monday released the debut photo from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – an image of a galaxy cluster revealing the most detailed glimpse of the early universe ever seen.

CHASIV YAR, Ukraine/KYIV, (Reuters) – Rescuers pulled survivors yesterday from an apartment block destroyed by a Russian missile strike that killed 31 people in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said while lamenting Moscow’s firepower advantage despite billions in Western aid.