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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with seven new sexual abuse lawsuits, as his lawyers asked the judge overseeing the music mogul’s criminal sex trafficking case for a gag order against Combs’ accusers and their lawyers.

CHISINAU (Reuters) – President Maia Sandu said on Monday Moldovans had won a “first battle in a difficult fight” for their future, a day after a slim majority of 50.46% backed EU accession in a referendum that was clouded by allegations of Russia-backed meddling.

LONDON (Reuters) – A British police officer was acquitted on Monday of the murder of a Black man he shot dead in London two years ago, an incident that led to large protests and anger among the capital’s Black community.

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make another push for a ceasefire when he heads to the Middle East on Monday, the State Department said, seeking to kick-start negotiations to end the Gaza war and also defuse the spillover conflict in Lebanon.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s power-grid operator said it had restored electricity to parts of the capital Havana on Monday following a fourth major grid failure in 48 hours, while Tropical Storm Oscar lashed the island’s eastern end.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli military forces besieged hospitals and shelters for displaced people in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday as they stepped up their operations, preventing critical aid from reaching civilians, residents and medics said.

(Reuters) Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway for voters who sign his free-speech and gun-rights petition falls into a gray area of election law, and legal experts are divided about whether the billionaire supporter of Donald Trump could be running afoul of prohibitions on paying people to register to vote.

BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel said late on Sunday it was preparing attacks on sites linked to the financial operations of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group within hours and told residents to leave those areas immediately, as it intensified assaults there and in Gaza.

CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldovans voted on Sunday in a presidential election and a referendum that could make or break their country’s efforts to join the European Union, after allegations of Russian interference.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s impeached deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua, said on Sunday his security protection team had been withdrawn and that President William Ruto would be responsible if anything happened to him.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk promised on Saturday to give away $1 million each day until November’s election to someone who signs his online petition, with the first prize awarded at a PAC event supporting Republican Donald Trump, raising questions about the legality of the payments.

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto on Sunday took over as president of the world’s third-largest democracy, vowing to combat internal issues such as corruption that plague the country and to make it more self-sufficient.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The two main parties contesting an election in the western Canadian province of British Columbia were tied after most votes had been counted, provisional results showed on Sunday, and it could be days before a winner emerges.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Unidentified people abducted, beat and seriously injured a senior Tanzanian opposition party official before dumping her in a forest, her party said on Sunday, a month after a similar abduction and murder of another of its party leaders.

ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – With the U.S. presidential election little more than two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited another kind of American temple: a McDonald’s.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Floods in Bangladesh have destroyed an estimated 1.1 million metric tons of rice, according to data from the agriculture ministry, prompting the country to ramp up imports of the staple grain amid soaring food prices.

(Reuters) – Ukraine struck a manufacturer of military explosives deep inside Russian territory overnight, as well as storage infrastructure at a military airfield in the Lipetsk region, Kyiv’s General Staff said in a statement today.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – A total of 87 people were killed or missing under the rubble after an Israeli attack on Saturday on northern Gaza’s town of Beit Lahiya, with more than 40 wounded, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said on Sunday.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel struck what it said were Hezbollah arms facilities in southern Beirut on Saturday after the Lebanese armed group fired rockets into northern Israel and a spokesman said a drone was launched at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s holiday home.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s foreign minister said a new multilateral sanctions monitoring team led by the United States was “utterly unlawful and illegitimate”, state media reported on Sunday.