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LARNACA, Cyprus  (Reuters) – A second shipment of aid carrying almost 400 tons of food for Gaza left Cyprus’s Larnaca port today, a Reuters witness said.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesian firefighters were struggling to put out a massive fire that broke out today at a military ammunition facility just outside the capital, causing a series of explosions and sending clouds of smoke into the night sky.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province today and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza.

MAMATLAKALA, South Africa,  (Reuters) – A bus crash in northern South Africa killed 45 pilgrims travelling from Botswana for Easter festivities yesterday, authorities said, with the sole survivor an eight-year-old girl currently being treated in hospital.

 THE HAGUE/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The World Court yesterday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave’s Palestinian population and halt spreading famine.

SAMREBOI, Ghana,  (Reuters) – Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm – dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners – is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Authorities in Singapore said they charged two former officials of Sembcorp Marine today with handing bribes to Brazilian officials to advance the company’s interests in the South American nation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Israel has asked the White House to reschedule a high-level meeting on military plans for Gaza’s southern city of Rafah that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had abruptly canceled, officials said yesterday, in an apparent bid to ease tensions between the two allies.

(Reuters) – Nearly 500 immigration and human rights organizations signed a letter urging the U.S.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Creating technological barriers and severing industrial supply chains would only lead to confrontation, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned today, as new Dutch policies on chip exports to China threaten to strain bilateral ties.

(Reuters) – Walt Disney  DIS.N and appointees of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reached a settlement on Wednesday to end a high-profile lawsuit in state court over control of the special district that includes the Walt Disney World theme parks.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. senator and Democratic Party vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman died on Wednesday at age 82 in New York City after suffering complications from a fall, his family said.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Forty-five mayors in Ecuador have requested police protection in the past year as violence grips the country, where 22 local officials have died in violent circumstances since 2023, the executive director of the Association of Ecuadorean Municipalities (AME) said.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Creating technological barriers and severing industrial supply chains would only lead to confrontation, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned today, as new Dutch policies on chip exports to China threaten to strain bilateral ties.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) –  U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said yesterday it was a moral and strategic imperative to protect Palestinian civilians in the war between Israel and Hamas and that the humanitarian catastrophe in besieged Gaza was getting worse.

BALTIMORE,  (Reuters) – Six workers were missing and presumed dead from a bridge that collapsed in Baltimore Harbor early yesterday after a massive cargo ship crippled by a power loss rammed into the structure, forcing the closure of one of the busiest ports on the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday that the gunmen who attacked Moscow’s Crocus City Hall music venue on Friday tried initially to flee to Belarus, not Ukraine as Russian officials including President Vladimir Putin have insisted.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) –  Thousands of people protested in Budapest near parliament yesterday demanding the chief prosecutor and Prime Minister Viktor Orban resign after a former government insider accused a senior aide to Orban of trying interfere in a graft case.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a dam project in northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing six people, police said, the third major attack on Chinese interests in the South Asian country in a week.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The U.S. is seeking to forfeit two New York City apartments a former  Mongolian prime minister bought with stolen mining funds, prosecutors said on Tuesday, as U.S.