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QUITO,  (Reuters) – Business heir Daniel Noboa will face significant challenges as he seeks to revive Ecuador’s battered economy and tackle rising crime during a truncated 17-month presidential term, after winning the country’s top job on Sunday.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – India’s decision to maintain the current floor price for basmati rice exports will further hamper overseas sales of the premium variety and hit farm income, leaving growers saddled with large stocks of the new-season variety, farmers and millers said.

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “demolish Hamas” as his troops prepared to move into the Gaza Strip in pursuit of Hamas militants whose deadly rampage through Israeli border towns shocked the world.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Indigenous leaders called on Sunday for a week of silence and reflection after a referendum to recognise First Peoples in the constitution was decisively rejected.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s incumbent Law and Justice (PiS) party was narrowly ahead in Sunday’s general election, exit polls showed, but the liberal opposition appeared to secure a majority, raising the possibility of an end to eight years of nationalist rule.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran warned Israel of escalation if it failed to end aggressions against Palestinians, with its foreign minister saying other parties in the region were ready to act, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed today to “demolish Hamas” as his troops prepared to move into the Gaza Strip in pursuit of Hamas militants whose deadly rampage through Israeli border towns shocked the world.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Top U.S. officials warned today that the war between Israel and the militant group Hamas could escalate into a wider conflict across the Middle East, saying they were worried the Lebanese group Hezbollah could attack Israel’s north or that Iran might get involved.

GAZA,  (Reuters) – As Israel prepared on Sunday for a ground assault on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Palestinians who have lost family members in air strikes were bracing for more destruction.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australian Indigenous leaders called today for a week of silence and reflection after a referendum to recognise First Peoples in the constitution was decisively rejected.

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli troops prepared last night for a ground assault on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip as the country hit back for an unprecedented assault on its territory, and Iran warned of “far-reaching consequences” if Israel’s bombardment was not stopped.

MARRAKECH, Morocco, (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund countries yesterday failed to agree on a U.S.-backed

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia yesterday decisively rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, in a major setback to the country’s efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples.

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel was preparing today to launch a ground assault in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, after telling Palestinians living in the densely populated territory to flee south towards a closed border with Egypt.

MARRAKECH, Morocco, (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund countries today failed to agree on a U.S.-backed

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia today decisively rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, in a major setback to the country’s efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – More than 1 million Palestinians in northern Gaza faced an Israeli deadline today to flee south, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had only just begun to retaliate for last week’s Hamas rampage across southern Israel.

PHILADELPHIA  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to Philadelphia yesterday to announce the recipients of $7 billion in federal grants across 16 states for the development of seven regional hydrogen hubs, advancing a key part of a plan to decarbonize the U.S.

(Reuters) – NASA yesterday launched a spacecraft from Florida on its way to Psyche, the largest of the several metal-rich asteroids known in our solar system and believed by scientists to be the remnant core of an ancient protoplanet, offering clues about Earth’s formation.

(Reuters) – Pfizer PFE.N yesterday slashed its full-year revenue forecast by around 13% and launched a $3.5 billion cost cutting program due to lower-than-expected sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment.