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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s top prosecutor on Monday dropped charges against four lawmakers over anti-government protests, a day after opposition leader Raila Odinga suspended the demonstrations, their lawyer said. Odinga said on Sunday he was ready for talks with President William Ruto, as long as authorities halted arrests and prosecutions connected to the protests, among other conditions. “The case has been withdrawn … for the sake of peace, dialogue and […]

FRANKLIN, Tennessee (AP) — It’s Palm Sunday, and across the greater Nashville, Tennessee, region, many Christians headed to worship services grief-stricken and hurting for the lives stolen too soon in The Covenant School shooting. Their heartsick pastors sought to bring comfort to those seeking answers to unanswerable questions after a heavily armed assailant turned a regular day into a horror story for the private, Christian grade school in Nashville. “If […]

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump is expected in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday where he will make history as the first former president to be criminally charged in a case that will likely take more than a year to come to trial. At issue is a $130,000 hush payment to an adult film star made in the waning days of the 2016 election campaign. Allegedly […]

By Tim Hepher and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – European planemaker Airbus is negotiating a new round of plane orders with China, coinciding with a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the economic superpower later this week, government and industry sources said. The potential deal for dozens of jets comes amid worsening relations between Washington and Beijing, which have seen China’s usually balanced airplane imports tilt towards Airbus in […]

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s military said its troops were locked in combat with Russian forces around the administration building of Bakhmut on Monday, and it poured scorn on Russian claims that mercenary fighters had captured the eastern city after months of warfare. A Ukrainian spokesman said the Russians had raised a victory flag not over the building but over “some kind of toilet”. In Moscow, the Kremlin accused […]

KINSHASA (Reuters) – At least 20 people were killed and several others are still missing following a landslide in east Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, the provincial government said on Monday. The incident occurred in the locality of Bolowa, in Masisi territory in Congo’s eastern North Kivu province. “Following this tragic incident, twenty people… lost their lives and others are missing for which search efforts are ongoing,” the North […]

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) – Sight deposits held by the Swiss National Bank declined last week, data showed on Monday, suggesting that Credit Suisse and UBS may have cut back on use of emergency funds offered them to facilitate their planned merger. Total sight deposits – meaning commercial bank cash held by the central bank overnight – fell to 563.566 billion Swiss francs ($614.71 billion) from 567.003 billion francs […]

(Reuters) -Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a bomb attack in a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday in which some 30 other people were wounded. Here’s what we know so far. WHO WAS TATARSKY? Tatarsky – real name Maxim Fomin – was among the best-known members of an influential group of military bloggers who have provided a running commentary on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Although frequently scathing about […]

By Ivana Sekularac THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at a trial in a special court in The Hague, where protesters rallied outside in support of the leader formerly feted by the West. The 10 charges of persecution, murder, torture and forced disappearance of people stem from the 1998-99 insurgency that eventually brought […]