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By Bate Felix DAKAR (Reuters) – Dozens of protesters clashed with police in Senegal’s capital Dakar on Monday after lawmakers were blocked from visiting the home of a prominent opposition politician on trial for separate charges of rape and libel. Police fired tear gas at groups of demonstrators who built makeshift barricades along one of Dakar’s main highways. In one neighbourhood, cars were gutted by fire and a ministerial building […]

By Fatos Bytyci LEPOSAVIC, Kosovo (Reuters) – Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb protesters on Monday, while Serbia’s president put the army on the highest level of combat alert. KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission to Kosovo, condemned the violence. “While countering the most active fringes of the crowd, several soldiers of the Italian and Hungarian KFOR contingent were […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s warring military factions agreed on Monday to a five-day extension of a ceasefire agreement, after renewed heavy clashes and air strikes in parts of the capital threw fresh doubts on the effectiveness of the truce. Saudi Arabia and the United States, which brokered a week-long ceasefire deal and have been monitoring it remotely, announced shortly before it was due to expire on Monday […]

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. The Attorney General’s office said in a statement that one other person was sentenced to 12 years in prison, six to 10 years, […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s warring military factions agreed on Monday to a five-day extension of a ceasefire agreement, after renewed heavy clashes and air strikes in parts of the capital threw fresh doubts on the effectiveness of the truce. Saudi Arabia and the United States, which brokered a week-long ceasefire deal and have been monitoring it remotely, announced shortly before it was due to expire on Monday […]

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Brazilian leader Luis Inacio Lula de Silva on Monday assailed U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and Maduro said he hopes a regional South American summit in Brasilia will call for their removal. Lula called the U.S. sanctions “extremely exaggerated” and criticized the United States for denying the legitimacy of fellow leftist Maduro, who is considered by Washington an authoritarian leader who has not […]

By Pavel Polityuk and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Russia said on Monday its military hit Ukrainian air bases in overnight strikes and Ukrainian forces shelled industrial facilities inside Russia as both sides sought the upper hand ahead of what Kyiv hopes will be a decisive counter-offensive. In a rare acknowledgement of damage to a military “target”, Ukraine said that work was under way to restore a runway and that five […]

By Adrianna Ebert GDANSK (Reuters) – Polish games developer CD Projekt is not for sale, its CEO reiterated on Monday, following weekend rumours that the maker of “Cyberpunk 2077” could be targeted by Sony. “Nothing has changed on our end. I can repeat what we’ve been saying throughout the years – CD Projekt is not for sale. We want to remain independent”, Adam Kicinski said on a conference call following […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy have reached a tentative deal to suspend the federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, ending a months-long stalemate. But the deal still faces a difficult path to pass through Congress before the U.S. runs out of money to pay its debts in early June. COMMENTS: EDWARD MOYA, SENIOR MARKET ANALYST AT OANDA IN NEW YORK “The […]