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NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Some 10,000 U.S. hotel workers began a multi-day strike in several cities today after contract talks with hotel operators Marriott International MAR.O,

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were apparently killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, the military said today.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – The Philippines and China exchanged accusations of intentionally ramming coast guard vessels in disputed waters of the South China Sea on Saturday, the latest in an escalating series of clashes in the vital waterway.

JENIN, (Reuters) – Clashes broke out between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters in the occupied West Bank yesterday as Israel pushed ahead with a military operation in the flashpoint city of Jenin.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Republican presidential rival Donald Trump yesterday over a visit he made to soldiers’ graves at Arlington National Cemetery that was later used in campaign video footage.

(Reuters) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine alliance, Africa CDC and the World Health Organization, the organizations said in a joint statement on Saturday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Electricity returned to Caracas and other parts of Venezuela on Saturday after a blackout plunged much of the country into darkness on Friday, although Reuters witnesses reported continued intermittent outages in the oil-producing state of Zulia.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – The Philippines and China exchanged accusations of intentionally ramming coast guard vessels in disputed waters of the South China Sea today, the latest in an escalating series of clashes in the vital waterway.

(Reuters) – U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said yesterday its forces conducted a partnered raid with the Iraqi Security Forces in western Iraq in the early hours of Aug.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv’s right to self-defence, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag in his first reaction to the advance into Russian territory.

(Reuters) – Seismic work at offshore gas fields shared by Vene-zuela and Trinidad and Tobago is expected to start in the coming days, the Caribbean country’s energy minister Stuart Young said yesterday on social media.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) –  India’s economic growth slowed to 6.7% year-on-year in the April-June quarter as a decline in government spending during national elections weighed, data showed yesterday, but it remained the world’s fastest-growing major economy.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Libya’s National Oil Corporation said yesterday that recent oilfield closures have caused the loss of approximately 63% of the country’s total oil production, as a conflict between rival eastern and western factions continues.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Vietnam and the Philippines agreed today to advance defence and military relations and deepen collaboration on maritime security, in a significant step by two countries long at odds with Beijing over its actions in the South China Sea.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s economic growth slowed to 6.7% year-on-year in the April-June quarter as a decline in government spending during national elections weighed, data showed today, but it remained the world’s fastest-growing major economy.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Vietnam and the Philippines agreed today to advance defence and military relations and deepen collaboration on maritime security, in a significant step by two countries long at odds with Beijing over its actions in the South China Sea.

SAVANNAH, Georgia/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Kamala Harris vowed a tougher approach to migration along the U.S.

MONROVIA,  (Reuters) – Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency shut down yesterday the operations of China Union’s iron ore Bong Mines for violating several environmental regulations, the regulatory agency said.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Africa’s top gold producer Ghana will commission its first large-scale greenfield mine in more than a decade in November, with expected annual production of more than 350,000 ounces, the head of its mining sector regulator told Reuters.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) –  Israel’s military and Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for the first round of vaccination of 640,000 children against polio, a senior WHO official said yesterday.