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(Reuters) – India has invited political and military opponents of Myanmar’s ruling junta to attend a seminar in New Delhi, sources said, a significant move by the South Asian power that has maintained ties with the top generals shunned by Western nations.

BEIRUT/HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) – Hezbollah and Israel exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, as the Lebanese militant group sent rockets deep into northern Israeli territory after facing some of the most intense bombardment in almost a year of conflict.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan  (Reuters) – A roadside bomb hit a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing a police officer in their security detail, police said.

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following the South Asian nation’s worst financial crisis in decades.

(Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far-right in a state election in Brandenburg on Sunday after trailing behind the Alternative for Germany (AfD) throughout the campaign, exit polls indicated.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A marathon week of climate change meetings opened in New York today, with celebrities and world leaders mingling with corporate leaders over talks on how to drive climate action forward.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly adopted a “Pact for the Future” today, which U.N.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president today, putting faith in the 55-year-old’s pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following its worst financial crisis in decades.

ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania,  (Reuters) – An intimate crowd gathered around a blue bus and listened intently while Hadley Duvall, an abortion rights advocate and a supporter of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, told how she was raped and impregnated by her stepfather at age 12.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 51 people and injured 20, Iran’s state media said today.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, grabbed a commanding early lead yesterday in his bid to become the next president of the debt-ridden country seeking to elect a leader to bolster its fragile economic recovery.

CLAYMONT, Delaware, (Reuters) –  Leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States are taking new security steps in the Indian Ocean as outgoing U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Qatari Al Jazeera TV said last night that Israeli forces stormed its bureau in the West Bank’s Ramallah city with a military order to close it for 45 days.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The board  of The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage to help countries ravaged by climate-driven disasters named  Seneg-alese finance specialist Ibrahima Cheikh Diong as its first director, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change announced on Saturday.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Rescuers in Beirut hunted yesterday for people still missing in rubble after an Israeli airstrike targeting Hezbollah commanders the previous day killed at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital, according to authorities.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump today rejected another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris before the U.S.

(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not be joined by his party’s embattled pick for North Carolina governor when he visits the critical electoral state today, the Trump campaign said.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut yesterday, vowing to press on with a new military campaign until it is able to secure the area around the Lebanese border.

(Reuters) – Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board voted yesterday to require a labour-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays, introduce errors and lay the groundwork for spurious challenges in the battleground state.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa and Europe doing humanitarian work.