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LUANDA,  (Reuters) – Angola has announced it is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), local news agency ANGOP reported today, citing the oil minister.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – The new Polish government led by Donald Tusk is implementing reforms of state media that amount to “anarchy”, the president said today, amid rising tensions between the head of state and a new pro-European Union administration.

PARAMARIBO,  (Reuters) – A three-judge panel in Suriname yesterday upheld the conviction of former President Desi Bouterse for his role in the execution of 15 people in the former Dutch colony in December 1982, though no arrest warrant was immediately issued.

CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – The U.S. said “very serious” negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release of more Israeli hostages, but prospects for a deal remained uncertain as Hamas insisted it would not discuss anything less than a complete end to Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian enclave.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say will threaten the future of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

KINSHASA/GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo held presidential and legislative elections yesterday – a vote disrupted by hours-long delays, opposition allegations of fraud, violence, and logistical setbacks that could prevent many from participating.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos yesterday lost her fight against an application in London’s High Court to freeze up to 580 million pounds ($735 million) of her assets.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich today lost a legal challenge aimed at overturning European Union sanctions imposed on him in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos today lost her fight against an application to freeze up to 580 million pounds ($735 million) of her assets in a lawsuit at London’s High Court.

CAIRO/GAZA,  (Reuters) – Israeli troops and Hamas militants fought fierce gunbattles on the streets of Gaza’s second-biggest city on Wednesday as the United Nations delayed a vote on a bid to boost aid deliveries to the Palestinian enclave facing a humanitarian disaster.

(Reuters) – Former Haitian Senator John Joel Joseph was on Tuesday sentenced in a Miami court to life in prison over his role in the July 2021 assassination of Haiti’s last president, Jovenel Moise.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump is disqualified from serving as U.S.

KYIV/LONDON, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday the military had proposed mobilising 450,000-500,000 more Ukrainians into the armed forces in what would mark a dramatic step up of Kyiv’s war with Russia.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban craft vendor Melani Ramos says she is feeling pretty down ahead of the holidays this year, as shelves that are bare and friends and family lost to a record-breaking exodus off the island mean there is little Christmas cheer to go around.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck one of China’s poorest regions just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 127 people, injuring hundreds and bringing down mud houses in remote villages that never stood a chance.

GAZA/MANAMA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Several countries have agreed to jointly carry out patrols in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to try to safeguard commercial shipping against attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who say they are supporting Palestinians under siege by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

CONAKRY,  (Reuters) – An explosion at an oil terminal in Guinea’s capital Conakry killed at least 13 people and injured 178 yesterday, the government said, as firefighters worked through the afternoon to fully extinguish the blaze.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – An expert witness paid nearly $1 million by Donald Trump to testify at his New York civil fraud trial “lost all credibility” by “doggedly” justifying the former U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Actor Jonathan Majors, a rising Hollywood star who had been set to play the leading role in an upcoming Marvel superhero film, was found guilty by a New York jury on Monday on charges he attacked his ex-girlfriend in the back of a car.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – A global rights group accused Israel today of committing a war crime by starving people in the Gaza Strip who continued to face relentless attacks in the war with Hamas militants.