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America will suspend deliveries of air-defence interceptors to other allies in order to rush more of the munitions to Ukraine.
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A search for Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, was under way after his helicopter was forced into a “hard landing” in the country’s mountainous north-west.
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, warned that Russia could yet expand its assault on Kharkiv, a north-eastern region, as he called on Western allies to increase supplies of military aid
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Moderna won a patent dispute against fellow drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech
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António Guterres, the secretary-general of the UN, called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza, and “the unconditional release of all hostages”.
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Meanwhile, the UN General Assembly called on the Security Council to admit Palestine as a member
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Israel and Hamas reported fighting in eastern Rafah, a city in southern Gaza where more than 1m displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that the country’s war cabinet had “unanimously decided” to “continue its operation” in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza.
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Negotiators for Hamas left Cairo after a second day of peace talks with Israel.
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Peace talks between Israel and Hamas resumed in Cairo.
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Authorities in Canada arrested three people in connection with the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist activist who was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, in June
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President Joe Biden condemned the violence of the protests that have swept university campuses all over America.
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Antony Blinken, America’s foreign secretary, visited Kerem Shalom, an Israeli border crossing with Gaza where humanitarian aid trucks are stationed.
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The White House condemned protesters who took over a building at Columbia University, saying they had taken the “wrong approach”.
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Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, urged Hamas to accept a ceasefire proposal put forward by Israel.
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Abbas appeals for American help over Rafah; Musk visits China, and more
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Hamas released an undated video showing two hostages taken on October 7th, Keith Siegel and Omri Miran, alive.
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Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, met Xi Jinping, China’s president, as part of a three-day visit to China
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Kevin McCarthy, the Republican speaker of America’s House of Representatives, directed Republican-led House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
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North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, will meet President Vladimir Putin in “the coming days”, according to the Kremlin.
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King Mohammed VI declared three days of national mourning after an earthquake struck Morocco late on Friday, killing at least 2,000 people.
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King Mohammed VI declared three days of national mourning after an earthquake struck Morocco late on Friday, killing at least 2,000 people.
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Global rice prices rose by 9.8% in August compared with the previous month, hitting a 15-year high
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Russia said that America’s plan to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium shells was a “criminal act”.
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America pledged additional security aid for Ukraine worth $175m.
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Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, “expects” to meet President Vladimir Putin in Russia, according to American officials.
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President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would not rejoin the deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain across the Black Sea unless Western countries lift restrictions on Russian agricultural exports.
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Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said he would dismiss his defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov, asking parliament to confirm Rostem Umerov, head of the state property fund, as his replacement.
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More than 150 people were hurt during clashes in Tel Aviv between supporters and foes of the Eritrean regime.
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who served as Singapore’s deputy prime minister until the start of his campaign, was elected the country’s new president
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Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering brought against him by prosecutors in Georgia, who accuse him of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results there.
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The Kremlin said a Russian investigation into the plane crash that killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of the Wagner Group, a mercenary outfit, and nine others last week would consider the possibility that it was downed deliberately.
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America’s commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, met China’s premier, Li Qiang, during a visit aimed at improving waning trade and lacklustre co-operation between the two countries.
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Shares in Evergrande, a heavily indebted Chinese property developer, plunged by nearly 90% after they again began trading in Hong Kong, following a 17-month ban.
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Russian officials said that genetic tests confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, had died in a private-jet crash on August 23rd.
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Zimbabwe’s election commission declared that Emmerson Mnangagwa, the 80-year-old president, had been re-elected.
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Hartwig Fischer resigned as director of the British Museum after a member of staff was sacked over a series of thefts
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Donald Trump surrendered to authorities at a jail in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary Wagner Group, is reported by Russian state media to have been on the passenger list of a private jet that crashed near Moscow, killing all ten people aboard.
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Arm, a chip designer owned by SoftBank Group, a big tech-investment firm, filed for an IPO that could be the biggest in America this year.
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President Biden appointed an emergency-relief manager to coordinate the federal government’s response in Hawaii.
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Denmark and the Netherlands pledged to send F-16 fighters to Ukraine, finally granting the embattled country’s wish for Western warplanes.
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Seven people were killed, including a six-year-old child, and more than 100 wounded by a Russian missile strike on Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine.
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Sebastian Kurz, a former Austrian chancellor, was charged on suspicion of making false statements during a government inquiry into the “Ibiza Scandal”
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A commissioner for the Economic Community of West African States, a regional bloc, told army chiefs it is prepared to use force to restore democracy in Niger “if everything else fails”.
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A cargo ship left Odessa, a Ukrainian Black Sea port, after being trapped there since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022.
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Russia’s central bank raised interest rates by 3.5 percentage points, to 12%, after the rouble collapsed.
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The grand jury in Georgia investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election delivered ten indictments.
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The death toll from wildfires in Hawaii rose to at least 89, in the deadliest natural disaster since the archipelago became an American state in 1959.
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The death toll from wildfires in Hawaii rose to at least 80, making this the deadliest natural disaster since the archipelago became an American state in 1959.
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A judge ordered Sam Bankman-Fried to jail, revoking his bail
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America’s consumer prices rose by 3.2% in the year to July, a slight increase from 3% in June.
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order limiting American investment in certain Chinese companies that could bolster China’s military.
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Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, told the BBC that Wagner, a Russian mercenary group, is “taking advantage” of the situation in Niger.
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The Economic Community of West African States, a regional bloc, said that it would hold a summit in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on Thursday, to discuss the coup in Niger.
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A deadline set by the Economic Community of West African States for the restoration of civilian government in Niger passed without incident.
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A Pakistani court sentenced Imran Khan, a former prime minister, to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts.
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India’s Supreme Court suspended Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for defamation
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Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to four charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, including conspiracy to defraud America.
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Russian drones damaged a Ukrainian port in Izmail, a city on the Danube near the border with Romania.
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Donald Trump was charged with four federal counts related to his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
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Niger’s military junta, which took power in a coup last week, arrested several senior politicians from the overthrown civilian government.
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The Economic Community of West African States agreed to place economic sanctions on Niger’s new military government, which took power in a coup on Wednesday, and gave it one week to cede power.
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France suspended all development aid to Niger after Mohamed Bazoum, the country’s president, was ousted by General Omar Tchiani, the head of the presidential guard.
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Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, said it was “essential” that Russia return to the Black Sea grain deal during the Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg
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America’s economy grew by 2.4% at an annualised rate in the second quarter, beating economists’ expectations of 1.8%.
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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter-point, taking its benchmark rate to a range between 5.25% and 5.5%.
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China will replace Qin Gang, the foreign minister who suddenly disappeared from public view in June, with Wang Yi, a senior diplomat who previously held the role.
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Protests erupted across Israel after the parliament approved a divisive law that would curtail the Supreme Court’s powers to nullify “unreasonable” government decisions.
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Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, hosted his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, for the first time since Wagner Group mercenaries rebelled and were reportedly exiled to Belarus.
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Thousands of Israelis marched in Jerusalem to protest against the government’s planned overhaul of the judiciary
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A federal judge scheduled Donald Trump’s trial, over his mishandling of classified documents, for May 2024
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Russia attacked Ukraine’s Black Sea ports for a third consecutive night and declared that all ships bound for them would be considered “potential carriers of military cargo”.
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Russia’s defence ministry said that all ships bound for Ukraine’s Black Sea ports would be considered “potential carriers of military cargo” starting at midnight on Thursday.
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Michigan’s attorney-general charged 16 people with eight felony counts each for attempting to hand the state’s electoral votes to Donald Trump in America’s 2020 election.
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Blasts on the Kerch bridge that connects Crimea to Russia reportedly killed two people. Video footage on social media revealed significant damage to the bridge’s structure.
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The EU and Tunisia inked a deal worth €1bn ($1.1bn), with €105m funding a new partnership to combat people-smuggling.
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Prices for new houses in China fell slightly in June, marking the first decline this year
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, said that President Vladimir Putin agreed that a deal allowing the Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine should be extended past its current deadline of June 17th
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Ukraine suffered a particularly heavy wave of Russian drone attacks, with Kyiv under fire for a third consecutive night.
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The G7, a club of rich democracies, announced new security guarantees for Ukraine at a meeting of NATO leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Members of NATO issued a communiqué from their summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, waiving the need for Ukraine to complete the “Membership Action Plan”, a formal pre-entry step, before joining the alliance.
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed to support Sweden’s bid to join NATO.
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President Joe Biden arrived in Britain ahead of Tuesday’s vital NATO summit in Lithuania. Also, Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, announced that he is leaving politics.
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President Joe Biden has set off for Europe ahead of a vital NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, arriving in Britain on Sunday evening.
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Western allies including Canada and Spain expressed unease over President Joe Biden’s decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine.
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American jobs growth slowed more than anticipated in June, according to the labour department, suggesting that interest-rate hikes are beginning to take effect
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Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, said the alliance was “monitoring closely” the whereabouts of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mutinous head of the Wagner group of Russian mercenaries, and his troops
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog said it had observed no “visible indications of mines or explosives” in recent weeks at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, but it wants greater access to confirm their absence.
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At least seven people were injured in an attack by a 20-year-old Palestinian man in Tel Aviv, which Hamas hailed as the “first response to Israel’s crimes against our people in Jenin”.
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Israeli troops, backed by drones and armoured bulldozers, continued an assault on a refugee camp in the city of Jenin—one of the largest incursions on the West Bank in 20 years.
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France’s prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, warned rioters that the government will let “no violence go unpunished”.
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Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, postponed a three-day state visit to Germany that had been due to begin on Sunday, amid widespread riots.
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France’s interior minister said that 45,000 police officers would be deployed to quell riots provoked by the killing of a teenager by police
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America’s Supreme Court ruled that universities’ consideration of race in admissions—an approach, known as affirmative action, that gives a leg up to black, Hispanic and Native American applicants—is unconstitutional.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary group’s boss, planned to abduct Russia’s top generals at the start of his mutiny, according to a Western official who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.
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Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s president, confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, had arrived in his country.
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In a short televised speech Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, said that Wagner mercenary troops who do not wish to enlist in the Russian army could join the group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in Belarus.
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Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, said on Sunday that the aborted Wagner uprising constituted a “direct challenge” to Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president.
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In an about-turn, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, said that his mercenaries would halt their advance towards Moscow and go back to their bases “to avoid bloodshed”.
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Germany’s parliament approved large-scale reforms of the country’s immigration system, loosening entry requirements for skilled workers from outside the European Union and allowing qualified refugees to join the workforce before the approval of their asylum status
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During his state visit to America, Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, addressed Congress, a rare privilege twice awarded him.
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, appealed to donors at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London for funds to help rebuild his country.
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Hunter Biden, the son of America’s president, will plead guilty to two counts of wilful failure to pay federal income tax.
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Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, met Xi Jinping, China’s president, in Beijing.
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Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, held “candid” and “constructive” talks with Qin Gang, China’s foreign minister, in Beijing, according to the State Department.
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Joe Biden called Russia’s deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus “totally irresponsible”, but said it would not ease Ukraine’s accession to NATO, as “they’ve got to meet the same standards.”
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Daniel Ellsberg, an American army analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, died aged 92
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A long-awaited report found that Boris Johnson, Britain’s former prime minister, lied to Parliament deliberately and repeatedly.
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America’s Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for the first time in more than a year, voting to keep the existing target range of between 5% and 5.25%.
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Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 charges stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
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The Kremlin said it had signed a contract with the Akhmat group, a Chechen paramilitary organisation, that would bring it under the defence ministry’s control.
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Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, confirmed that a long-awaited fight-back was underway, saying that “counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place”.
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In his first speech since he was indicted by federal prosecutors, Donald Trump dismissed the charges brought against him as “ridiculous and baseless”.
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Boris Johnson quit his post as an MP after receiving a report by fellow lawmakers investigating whether he had lied to them about holding parties during lockdown
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Donald Trump said he had been indicted for mishandling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, his estate in Florida, in a post on Truth Social, the social-media site he started.
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Ukrainian officials said that 29 villages had been flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in a Russian-controlled area of south-east Ukraine.
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A dam in a Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine was blown up, unleashing torrents of water across the region.
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Ukraine said it had launched “offensive actions” on the frontline and had success near Bakhmut, a town in the country’s east.
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Ukraine’s counter-offensive; Pence to enter presidential race, and more
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A group of pro-Ukrainian Russian partisans said that they would hand captured Russian soldiers over to Ukraine.
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Indian officials said their rescue operation at the site of the country’s deadliest rail crash this century was over.
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Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, backtracked on a contentious law that he approved just four days ago
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The Senate passed a bill to suspend America’s debt ceiling until January 2025, allowing the government to resume borrowing money and avoid an imminent sovereign default.
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America’s House of Representatives passed a deal to suspend the country’s debt ceiling and avoid a sovereign default.
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Nvidia became the first chipmaker to hit a valuation of $1trn.
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Russia launched a rare daytime attack on Ukraine’s capital, following two nights of heavy drone strikes.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a victory speech after early count data suggested that he had secured another five-year term in Turkey’s presidential run-off.
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President Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy, the Republican speaker of the House, reportedly struck a tentative deal to raise America’s debt ceiling.
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A Singaporean judge ordered Credit Suisse, a collapsed Swiss bank, to pay $926mn to Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia’s former prime minister
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Russia launched a wave of strikes on several Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, the capital.
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At an emergency meeting in Egypt the Arab League voted to re-admit Syria, which was suspended in 2011.
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Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway were greeted at the investment firm’s AGM by the news that first-quarter operating profit—the number Warren Buffett, the boss, urges them to focus on—had risen from $7.2bn a year ago to $8.1bn in 2023.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, threatened to withdraw his troops from Bakhmut by May 10th
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Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, gave a speech at the International Criminal Court in The Hague during an unannounced visit to the Netherlands.
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As expected the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, bringing it to a range of 5-5.25%.
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American regional bank shares fell sharply a day after First Republic, a San Francisco-based bank, was shut down by American regulators—the third such intervention since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March.
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American regulators shut down First Republic, a San Francisco-based lender, after a run on its deposits that followed the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
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JPMorgan Chase and PNC, two American banks, are among around six said to have been asked by the American government to bid to buy First Republic, a struggling lender.
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JPMorgan and PNC, two American banks, are among those regulators have asked to bid for First Republic, a struggling mid-sized lender, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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America began evacuating its citizens from Khartoum, Sudan’s capital
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America’s GDP grew by less than expected in the first quarter of 2023 as higher interest rates weighed on the world’s largest economy.
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Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, spoke for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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President Joe Biden officially launched his campaign for re-election in 2024, four years to the day since he announced his last run.
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Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign-policy chief, said that 1,000 EU citizens and 21 diplomats were evacuated from Sudan as the deadly struggle between two rival military factions entered a second week.
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European governments reacted angrily to a Chinese diplomat’s suggestion that ex-Soviet countries lacked a legal basis for statehood.
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American diplomats have reportedly been evacuated from Sudan as the deadly struggle between the forces of two rival generals that broke out on April 15th continues.
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Dominic Raab resigned as Britain’s deputy prime minister and justice secretary after the release of the findings of a bullying probe
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After a two-day delay, SpaceX launched its Starship system—with a spaceship atop the most powerful rocket ever built—from the Gulf Coast of Texas.
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Thousands of civilians fled Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, as fighting continued for a fifth day between the country’s ruling military junta and the Rapid Support Forces, a militia.
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Dominion Voting Systems agreed to settle its defamation lawsuit against Fox News for $787.5m, about half of what it had initially sought in damages.
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A Russian court sentenced Vladimir Kara-Murza, a political dissident and critic of the Kremlin, to 25 years in jail on charges of treason and deliberately spreading falsehoods about the army.
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Regional diplomatic moves are under way to stop the fighting that broke out on Saturday in Sudan.
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At least 25 people died after fighting broke out in Sudan’s capital between the ruling military junta and the Rapid Support Forces, a militia.
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America’s Supreme Court temporarily blocked restrictions placed on mifepristone, a pill used for abortions. The hold expires on Wednesday
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The FBI arrested Jack Teixeira, the alleged leader of a gun-loving online group that hosted leaked American intelligence files.
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The rate of inflation in America slowed to 5% year-on-year in March from 6% a month earlier.
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America is assessing the source and scale of a leak of classified-intelligence files that could pose “a very serious risk to national security”.
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America appears to have been eavesdropping on key allies, according to classified-intelligence documents that were leaked online.
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China’s army simulated attacks against Taiwan during the second day of drills around the island. Chinese state media reported that multiple units carried out “simulated joint precision strikes on key targets”.
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The Taiwanese government said it had detected nine Chinese warships and 71 fighter jets in the Taiwan Strait after China announced it would begin three days of military exercises around the island.
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Hiring growth in America slowed somewhat in March as employers added 236,000 jobs, the smallest monthly gain since December 2020
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Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, urged President Xi Jinping to “bring Russia to its senses” over the war in Ukraine during a meeting in Beijing.
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Volodomyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, met Andrzej Duda, his Polish counterpart, in Warsaw, Poland’s capital.
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Manhattan’s district attorney charged Donald Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over payments made to suppress stories about alleged sexual infidelities before the 2016 presidential election.
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New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, warned those protesting against Donald Trump’s arraignment to “be on [their] best behaviour” while in town.
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Trump leaves for New York; Russia lays blame over blast, and more
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Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister, conceded defeat in tight parliamentary elections.
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Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in on Tuesday to face the first criminal charges ever to be brought against a former American president.
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A grand jury in New York voted to indict Donald Trump for his alleged role in covering up hush-money payments to an adult-film actress.
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A grand jury in New York voted to indict Donald Trump for his alleged role in covering up hush-money payments to an adult-film actress, several news outlets reported.
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Sergio Ermotti returned as chief executive of UBS to manage its takeover of Credit Suisse.
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American prosecutors charged Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, a now defunct crypto exchange, with bribing Chinese officials.
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Facing mounting pressure, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, announced that he will delay a proposed judicial overhaul until parliament next meets in a month's time.
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Ukraine’s security chief, Oleksiy Danilov, said Russia was holding Belarus “hostage” after the Kremlin said that it would place tactical nuclear weapons in the territory of its regional ally.
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Donald Trump, who faces possible arrest by Manhattan prosecutors, was due to address supporters at a rally on Saturday night in Waco, Texas.
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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-percentage point, bringing it to a range of 4.75%-5%.
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As two days of bilateral talks drew to a close, Xi Jinping, China’s president, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, committed to greater economic cooperation.
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Following a weekend of fraught negotiations UBS, a bank, bought Credit Suisse, its troubled rival, in a SFr3bn ($3.25bn) deal brokered by the Swiss government.
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Russia and Ukraine had renewed a deal to export grain through the Black Sea.
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Russia and Ukraine had renewed a deal to export grain through the Black Sea.
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Joe Biden, America’s president, asked Congress to expand regulators’ power to claw back compensation and capital gains from executives of failed banks
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A coalition of big American banks said they will deposit $30bn into First Republic Bank, a mid-sized lender, to shore it up.
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Switzerland’s central bank said it would provide liquidity to Credit Suisse “if necessary” after its share price plunged by 24%.
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Several big private-equity firms—including Apollo, Blackstone and KKR—are reportedly considering acquiring pieces of Silicon Valley Bank’s loan book.
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America’s Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will once more try to find a buyer for Silicon Valley Bank after the first auction got no takers acceptable to regulators.
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Signature Bank, a New York-based lender, became the second financial institution to be shut down by American regulators after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday.
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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, an American tech-focused lender, plunged startups into uncertainty globally.
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Britain will give France £480m ($577m) over the next three years to tackle the small-boat crisis
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President Joe Biden proposed a budget that would raise annual spending from about $6.3trn, or 25% of GDP, to $6.9trn in the next fiscal year.
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Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, warned that Bakhmut, an eastern Ukrainian town that Russia has sought to capture for several months, may fall in the coming days.
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Jerome Powell, chairman of America’s Federal Reserve, said interest rates will likely have to be raised “higher than previously anticipated”.
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Intense fighting continued around Bakhmut, an eastern Ukrainian city that Russia has sought to capture for almost nine months.
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Protesters in Greece clashed with police during demonstrations in Athens over a train crash on Tuesday which killed at least 57 people.
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China set a GDP growth target of "around 5%", its lowest such target in more than 25 years
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Alex Murdaugh, an ex-lawyer from South Carolina convicted of killing his wife and son, was sentenced to life in prison
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Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Kostas Karamanlis, Greece’s transport minister, resigned after a passenger train carrying around 350 people collided with a freight train killing at least 38 and injuring more than 85.
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Nigeria's opposition parties rejected the result of last week’s presidential election, calling for a fresh vote to be held.
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Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, struck a deal on reforming Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements.
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Downing Street announced that Rishi Sunak would meet Ursula von der Leyen on Monday.
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China refused to endorse a statement condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at a meeting of G20 finance ministers. Instead India, the group’s current president, released a summary document saying “most” members believed the war was causing “immense human suffering”.
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Germany’s economy shrank by 0.4% in the last three months of 2022, a larger-than-expected drop caused by falling consumption and reduced capital investment
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia would bolster its nuclear forces in a speech on “Defender of the Fatherland Day”, a public holiday.
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President Joe Biden said that America would defend “every inch” of NATO as he met with nine leaders from the alliance’s eastern flank in Poland.
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President Joe Biden gave a pugnacious (and relatively short) speech in Warsaw reaffirming America and NATO’s continued support for Ukraine after nearly a year of fighting against Russia’s invading forces.
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President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to meet with his counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, said his country was “very concerned” about China potentially supplying Russia with weapons in Ukraine.
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Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, according to America’s government.
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EDF, the French energy giant, reported its largest ever annual losses of €17.9bn ($19.1bn) in 2022. Financial debt rose by 50% to €64.5bn. It was a bruising year: the government forced the state-controlled company to cap prices to protect households and businesses, while scheduled repairs shut down more than half of the country’s nuclear reactors
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A judge released parts of a grand-jury report assessing Donald Trump’s interference in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
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Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, resigned after eight years in power.
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Defence officials from the Ukraine Defence Contact Group of NATO members and allied countries met in Brussels to discuss supplying arms to Ukraine, as Russia begins its new offensive.
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Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general, said that the new Russian offensive against Ukraine has already begun, and that Russia will send “more troops, more weapons” into the war.
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Turkish officials said that they had issued more than 110 arrest warrants for architects, contractors and engineers connected with buildings that collapsed in devastating earthquakes on February 6th.
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Shots were fired between unknown groups in Turkey’s Hatay province, disrupting efforts to rescue survivors from devastating earthquakes last week.
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The Pentagon shot down an object flying at high altitude (12,000 metres) over Alaska’s airspace, citing the threat of a potential collision with civilian aeroplanes
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The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on Monday surpassed 20,000.
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, repeated calls for the West to supply fighter jets to his country during an address to Britain’s Parliament.
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared a three-month state of emergency in ten provinces affected by large earthquakes in the south of the country and neighbouring Syria.
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Large earthquakes struck southern Turkey and Syria, killing more than 3,400 people and trapping many more under collapsed buildings.
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Divers from America’s navy are working to recover debris from the Chinese balloon that an American fighter jet shot down Saturday over the Atlantic.
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America shot down a Chinese balloon over the Atlantic in what the Pentagon said was American airspace.
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The EU agreed to a cap of $100 per barrel for exports of Russia’s refined-oil products, such as diesel, to take effect on Sunday
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Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, arrived in Kyiv for meetings with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, about his country eventually joining the EU.
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von der Leyen in Kyiv; Meta’s shares soar and more
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America’s Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by one-quarter of a percentage point following six consecutive larger increases.
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In France protesters paralysed public transport and closed schools in the second national demonstration against President Emmanuel Macron’s most recent attempt to reform pensions.
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In Pakistan a suicide bombing at a mosque killed at least 59 worshippers and injured scores more in Peshawar, close to the Afghanistan border, as they performed afternoon prayers.
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Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, sacked Nadhim Zahawi, the chairman of the governing Conservative Party, for “a serious breach of the ministerial code”.
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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, promised a “strong, swift and precise” response to a shooting near a synagogue in Jerusalem that killed seven people on Friday.
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David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, received $25m in compensation last year, down by nearly 30% from 2021
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Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said that the 14 Leopard tanks it has promised to Ukraine will arrive in “late March, early April”.
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The Biden administration said it will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, following Germany’s decision to dispatch 14 of its Leopard tanks.
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Germany is expected to announce the dispatch of its Leopard tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday, following much dithering and pressure from allies.
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Diplomatic pressure to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine continued building on Germany, their maker. Poland said it would apply for permission to send its own stock.
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Ten people were killed and at least ten others injured by a gunman in Monterey Park, on the eastern edge of Los Angeles.
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A mass-shooting in Los Angeles; More documents found at Biden’s home, and more
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America’s justice department found a new batch of classified documents at President Joe Biden’s private residence.
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Google’s parent company Alphabet announced that it will cut 12,000 jobs, or around 6% of its workforce
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Reed Hastings stepped down as chief executive of Netflix. He will remain executive chairman of the streaming firm, which he co-founded in 1997 as a mail-order DVD service.
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In a surprise announcement, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, said she would step down within the next three weeks.
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Big banks’ fourth-quarter earnings reflected a slowdown in dealmaking activity amidst high interest rates and fears of a coming recession.
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The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro, a Ukrainian city, climbed to 40, according to local officials.
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The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro, a Ukrainian city, is now 29, according to local officials.
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Anderson Torres, who was Brazil’s justice minister under Jair Bolsonaro, the former president, was arrested in Brasília, the capital, on his return from Florida.
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JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank by assets, reported that profit in the fourth quarter of 2022 grew by 6% year on year, to $11bn
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America’s attorney-general named a special counsel to investigate how classified documents from Joe Biden’s tenure as vice-president during the Obama administration remained in his private possession.
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Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defence minister, appointed a new commander, Valery Gerasimov, to lead its invasion of Ukraine.
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A judge on Brazil’s supreme court ordered the arrest of two top security officials in Brasília, the capital, where supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings on January 8th.
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Police in Brazil arrested around 1,200 people involved in the storming of government buildings in the capital, Brasília, on Sunday.
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In Brazil thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the presidential palace, Congress building and Supreme Court in the capital, Brasília.
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After four days and 15 rounds of voting Kevin McCarthy’s humiliating wait to become Speaker of America’s House of Representatives ended.
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American jobs growth fell in December as high interest rates cooled the labour market, a consequence of the Federal Reserve’s ongoing battle against high inflation
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America and Germany agreed to send armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine, after long resisting such aid for fear that Russia would view it as escalatory.
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The stalemate in America’s House of Representatives continued as Kevin McCarthy lost a sixth ballot to become Speaker, at which point voting was adjourned until Thursday.
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Kevin McCarthy lost the first three votes to become Speaker of America’s House of Representatives, after 20 hard-right Republicans withheld their support.
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Russia’s ministry of defence said that 63 servicemen had been killed in a Ukrainian attack on their quarters in Makiivka, a Russian-occupied town in the Donbas region.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president. Also, according to the head of the IMF, a third of the world economy will fall into recession in 2023,
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Belarus summoned Ukraine’s ambassador after a missile was downed 15km inside Belarusian territory
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America announced that travellers from China will have to produce a negative covid-19 test on arrival.
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Ukrainian officials urged residents of Kherson to evacuate as Russian forces escalated their attack on the southern city, which was liberated in November having been occupied by the Russians since the start of the war.
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China announced a plan to end mandatory quarantine for inbound travellers, beginning on January 8th, as part of an official downgrade of its level of response to the covid-19 pandemic.
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China announced a plan to end mandatory quarantine for inbound travellers as part of an official downgrade of its level of response to the covid-19 pandemic.
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A leaked memo revealed China’s National Health Commission to have estimated that nearly 250 million citizens were infected with covid-19 during the first 20 days of December. Also, A Ukrainian drone attacked an airbase deep within Russia.
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Russia may cut oil output by up to 7% in early 2023, said Alexander Novak, a deputy prime minister. This month the EU, the G7 and Australia imposed a $60-a-barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil
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Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, a failed cryptocurrency exchange, was released on a $250m bond after a hearing in New York.
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Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, met with President Joe Biden in the White House and gave an address to Congress.
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Several news outlets reported that Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, plans to visit Washington on Wednesday, to address Congress and meet Joe Biden, his American counterpart.
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The House committee investigating the Capitol riot of January 6th 2021 recommended that the Justice Department charge Donald Trump with four federal crimes.
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Ukrainian officials said that electricity supplies had been restored in Kharkiv, the country’s second-biggest city, and water and heat were back on in Kyiv, the capital, after a wave of Russian missile attacks on the country’s infrastructure on Friday.
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Ukrainian officials said that electricity supplies had been restored in Kharkiv, the country’s second-biggest city, and water was back on in Kyiv, the capital, after a wave of Russian missile attacks on the country’s infrastructure on Friday.
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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said it had processed $6bn in net withdrawals between Monday and Wednesday, as FTX’s collapse continued to unnerve crypto investors
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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point.
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America’s core consumer price index, a measure of inflation excluding food and energy costs, rose by just 0.2% in November, its second straight month at a subdued level.
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Authorities in the Bahamas arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, the former boss of FTX, at the request of American prosecutors who have filed unspecified criminal charges against him.
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Ukrainian forces struck the occupied city of Melitopol in the south-east with a missile barrage.
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America warned that Iran and Russia are entering a “full-fledged defence partnership” that may include the joint production of drones.
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Arizona’s senator Kyrsten Sinema said she would leave the Democratic Party and become an independent, just days after the Democrats won an expanded majority of 51-49 in the Senate
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America’s House of Representatives approved legislation that mandates federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
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Lawmakers in Peru voted 101-6 to oust Pedro Castillo as president shortly after he tried to dissolve Congress.
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A jury in Manhattan convicted Donald Trump’s real-estate company of tax fraud.
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Russia said it foiled Ukrainian drone attacks against two air bases deep inside its territory, but that three Russian service members died in the resulting explosions.
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Iran’s attorney-general said that the country would abolish its hateful morality police, whose tasks include ensuring that women wear the hijab.
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Diplomats from the EU agreed on a price cap for Russian oil of $60 per barrel.
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Diplomats from the EU agreed on a price cap for Russian oil of $60 per barrel, according to Poland’s ambassador.
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During Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to America, Joe Biden said he was “prepared to speak with” Vladmir Putin, as Mr Macron has, if the Russian president signalled an interest in ending the war in Ukraine.
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Two cities in China—Chongqing and Guangzhou—said that they would ease covid-19 restrictions amid the continuing protests against the country’s stringent measures.
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China began suppressing the widespread protests that erupted over the weekend in frustration at the government’s stringent anti-covid measures.
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Protesters clashed with police in Shanghai on Sunday night, as they staged a demonstration against China’s draconian anti-covid measures.
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Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure caused mass blackouts, and obliged officials to remove three nuclear power plants from the national grid as a precautionary measure.
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The World Health Organisation warned that Ukraine faces a “devastating energy crisis” this winter.
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America said it was likely that Russians “all the way up the chain of command” were responsible for war crimes in Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s Zaporizhia power plant was hit by shelling on Saturday and Sunday, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which warned that such attacks risked causing a nuclear disaster.
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Negotiations at COP27, the UN climate summit in Egypt, stretched into Sunday morning.
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Elon Musk abruptly closed Twitter’s headquarters until Monday, as his unique management style appears to have caused a Twexodus
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NATO’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, said that it is “likely” that a missile that hit a farm in Poland was fired by Ukraine’s air-defence force.
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European energy ministers approved a windfall tax on most non-gas electricity producers and cuts to electricity consumption during peak hours, to temper soaring energy bills.
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Hurricane Ian left more than 2m people in Florida without power.
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Germany announced a €65bn ($64.7bn) relief package to help households and companies withstand soaring prices
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Gorbachev laid to rest; NASA calls second Moon rocket launch, and more
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A list of material seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Florida estate showed that he haphazardly mixed classified material with mundane press clippings
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The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog left the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in Russian-occupied territory in southern Ukraine.
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The UN said China’s detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang may “constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity”.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, aged 91, died at hospital in Moscow, according to Russian news reports.
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Ukrainian forces launched “offensive actions in several directions” in the southern region of Kherson, according to a Ukrainian military spokesperson.
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Russian forces fired at towns around the Zaporizhia nuclear power station in the south-east of Ukraine
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Worries around Zaporizhia; American warships in the Taiwan Strait, and more
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Accusations fly at Zaporizhia; America’s S&P 500 stockmarket falls; and more
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Ofgem, Britain’s energy watchdog, increased the country’s energy price cap by 80%, pushing up the typical household’s energy bill to £3,549 a year.
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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to increase Russia’s armed forces by 137,000 combat personnel to 1.15m.
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America’s president, Joe Biden, announced nearly $3bn of military assistance to Ukraine on its independence day.
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America urged its citizens to leave Ukraine, saying it believes Russia will step up strikes against civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days.
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Russia pressed on with its offensive in several areas of Ukraine, having bombarded it with unusual severity over the weekend.
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The daughter of Alexander Dugin, a nationalist ideologue who has been described as “[Vladimir] Putin’s brain”, was killed outside Moscow by a car bomb
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At least 12 people are believed dead after an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia
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Finland’s prime minister took a drug test to quell a brouhaha over video footage of her partying and dancing with friends
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A federal judge in Florida said he would probably unseal part of the affidavit detailing the FBI’s justification for searching Donald Trump’s estate.
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Ukraine hinted that its forces were responsible for Tuesday’s explosions at a military base in Russian-occupied Crimea, located far from the war’s frontlines.
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Explosions were reported at a military base in Russian-occupied Crimea, damaging a munition depot.
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Ukraine said that Russia was unsuccessfully trying to advance on several towns in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
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Fighting in Donetsk, Kenya’s contested election, and more
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Eight people were injured, some seriously, after a gunman opened fire near the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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A lawyer for Donald Trump signed a statement in June declaring that all classified material held at Mr Trump’s home in Florida had been returned to the government, according to the New York Times.
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Salman Rushdie, the author of “The Satanic Verses”, was stabbed several times when he was about to deliver a lecture in Chautauqua, New York
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Merrick Garland, America’s attorney-general, said the Department of Justice has asked a judge in Florida to make public the warrant used to search Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
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Annual inflation in America eased slightly in July, dipping from 9.1% in June to 8.5%, though it is still close to America’s highest in four decades.
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The Novofedorivka military airbase in Russia-controlled Crimea was hit by a series of powerful explosions.
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Donald Trump said FBI agents had raided his Mar-a-Lago home and prised open a safe.
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A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, brokered by Egypt, took effect on Sunday evening.
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Taiwan scrambled jets to deter 20 Chinese aircraft, 14 of which had crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line, as part of China’s most provocative military drills in decades
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Health officials in Britain said there were early signs that the spread of monkeypox was slowing
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Brittney Griner, an American basketball player, was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian court for attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country.
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Taiwan scrambled jets to ward off 27 Chinese warplanes that, according to Taiwanese officials, had crossed into the island’s air-defence zone.
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Nancy Pelosi addressed Taiwan’s parliament, where she praised the self-governing island as “one of the freest societies in the world”.
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in Afghanistan by an American drone strike over the weekend, US officials said.
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Vladimir Putin signed a new doctrine laying out the Russian navy’s strategic aims, including plans to become a “great maritime power” that extends over the world.
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Ukraine said it was compiling evidence that Russia perpetrated the attack that killed 53 prisoners of war on Thursday.
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Belarus recalled its ambassador to Britain, accusing the British government of “hostile and unfriendly” actions
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JetBlue agreed to buy Spirit for $3.8bn
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Federal Reserve officials unanimously agreed to raise interest rates by 0.75 percentage points for the second month running in an attempt to tamp down rampant inflation.
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The European Union reached an agreement to voluntarily reduce natural gas demand by 15%, in preparation for Russian cuts to gas supplies.
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Pope Francis delivered a long-awaited apology in Canada for decades of abuse at Catholic-run residential schools.
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Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said his country’s forces were advancing “step by step” into the Kherson province of southern Ukraine.
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Finland and Sweden secured the support of Turkey for their bids to join NATO, according to a statement by Finland’s president.
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Russian missiles hit a kindergarten and an apartment block in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. Joe Biden, America’s president, condemned the strikes as “barbarism”.
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A day after calling the Supreme Court’s vote to overturn Roe v Wade “a tragic error”, President Joe Biden upped his rhetoric.
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Norway’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate from 0.75% to 1.25% in order to contain rising inflation
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Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett, and foreign minister, Yair Lapid, agreed to dissolve parliament, triggering new elections.
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The head of the UN’s humanitarian office, OCHA, said that Sri Lanka could be on the brink of a “full-blown humanitarian emergency”
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Three men, two British and one Moroccan, captured by pro-Russian forces in a disputed part of Ukraine were handed a death sentence.
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that a “stalemate is not an option” in the war against Russia, and that Ukraine had to reclaim “full control” over its entire territory.
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Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, survived a vote of no-confidence.
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Ukraine claims to have recaptured one-fifth of the city of Severodonetsk, even as Russia intensifies its attack with reinforcements.
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American prosecutors charged Peter Navarro with contempt of Congress for failing to comply with its probe of the Capitol riot
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Russia accused America of “intentionally adding fuel to the fire” by promising to send precision-guided rocket systems to Ukraine as part of a new $700m military aid package.
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Russia to cut off Finland’s electricity and Georgian region plans Russia referendum
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America’s chief justice confirms authenticity of leak and EU plans new sanctions for Russia
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A repudiation of Roe v Wade and Mariupol’s citizens under fire again
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Donbas offensive “behind schedule” and Wall Street’s cruellest month
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Cruise missiles strike Kyiv and mixed signals from big tech
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Putin blusters in the West’s general direction and Meta saves face
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Macron re-elected and American secretaries in Kyiv
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Zelensky warns that Russia will invade other countries and tensions over G20 membership
Mariupol’s trapped citizens and more American aid on its way
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Biden promises more American oil and Ukraine braces for a new offensive
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Putin said to be misinformed and Russian troops repositioned
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G20’s Russia dilemma and America’s refugee pledge
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Biden calls Putin a “war criminal” and Russia bombs Mariupol theatre
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Russia undercuts France and McConnell criticises RNC
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America alleges a Russian plot and the Winter Olympics begin
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