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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s former finance and labour minister and first Black central bank governor Tito Mboweni has died aged 65 following a brief illness, the presidency said late on Saturday.

MADRID (Reuters) – The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said yesterday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.

KARACHI (Reuters) – The Baloch Liberation Army, a militant separatist group in Pakistan, denied involvement in an attack that killed at least 21 mine workers, condemning the violence.

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, the health ministry said on Sunday, without specifying which variant had been recorded.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump pledged today to hire an extra 10,000 border patrol agents if he is reelected as president, as he intensifies his attacks on Kamala Harris on the issue of immigration.

JERUSALEM/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United Nations said today Israeli tanks had burst through the gates of a base of its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, the latest accusation of Israeli violations and attacks that have been denounced by Israel’s own allies.

MADRID, (Reuters) – The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said yesterday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.

BEIRUT/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israel ordered more evacuations and targeted a new location in northern Lebanon yesterday, as a third U.N.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russia and China blocked a proposed consensus statement for the East Asia Summit drafted by Southeast Asian countries, mainly over objections to language on the contested South China Sea, a U.S.

SIESTA KEY, Florida, (Reuters) – Chris Fiore was supposed to be accepting delivery of new household appliances and furniture, replacing items that were swamped by Hurricane Helene just a few weeks ago.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli military strikes on Gaza yesterday killed at least 29 Palestinians, medics said, and forces kept pushing deeper into the Jabalia area, where international relief agencies say thousands of people are trapped.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China pledged today to “significantly increase” debt to revive its sputtering economy, but left investors guessing on the overall size of the stimulus package, a vital detail to gauge the longevity of its recent stock market rally.

(Reuters) – Thousands of people are trapped in Gaza’s Jabalia camp as Israeli forces attack the area, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) said yesterday, a week after Israel launched an offensive there which it says is aimed at stopping Hamas regrouping.

(Reuters) – Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs, delay first deliveries of its 777X jet by a year and record $5 billion in losses in the third quarter, as the U.S.

AURORA, Colorado, (Reuters) –  Donald Trump portrayed migrants as dangerous criminals during a rally in Aurora, Colorado, yesterday, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill U.S.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the  Nobel Peace Prize today, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African prosecutors have decided not to charge President Cyril Ramaphosa over a theft from his game farm that nearly cost him his position two years ago.

FORT PIERCE, Florida,  (Reuters) – Millions of Floridians were still without electrical power today, more than a day after Hurricane Milton roared across the midsection of the state, touching off tornadoes and leaving at least 16 people dead.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize today, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them.

FORT PIERCE, Florida/ST. PETERSBURG, Florida,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday after cutting a destructive path across Florida that spawned tornados, killed at least 10 people and left millions without power, but the storm did not trigger the catastrophic surge of seawater that was feared.