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The former head of car supplier Magna International, Austrian businessman Siegfried Wolf, was charged by an Austrian court on Monday on suspicion of money laundering in connection with the purchase of Eurofighter jets two decades ago.

Brazil's government will partially reintroduce a federal diesel tax this year to pay for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's plan to bring down the cost of vehicles, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Friday.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged continued U.S. commitment to both Israel's security and a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict on Monday, but said the expansion of Jewish settlements would be an obstacle to peace.

Russian reports that Ukraine has begun a counteroffensive are meant to distract attention from losses Russian forces are taking around the eastern city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said on Monday.

The United States and several other countries have committed human rights violations against a Saudi man held in the Guantanamo prison and accused of organising the bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden in 2000, a U.N. report said.

The United States issued new Russia-related sanctions on Monday, the Treasury Department's website showed.

China leads research in 19 of 23 technologies set as priorities by the AUKUS defence partnership of Australia, Britain and the U.S., including hypersonics, electronic warfare and undersea drones, highlighting the need for Western allies to pool research results, an Australian security think-tank says.

A three year-old Palestinian boy who was wounded by Israeli gunfire last week has died of his wounds, Palestinian and Israeli health officials said on Monday.

On a sun-scorched shoreline in Iraq's southern marshlands, fishermen stood shovelling a grim catch: tiny fish gathered dead from the water, fit only for use as animal fodder.