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FUKUOKA, Japan, (Reuters) –  Typhoon  Shanshan deluged large parts of Japan with torrential rain on Friday, prompting warnings for flooding and landslides hundreds of miles from the storm’s centre, halting travel services and shutting production at major factories.

CAIRO/GAZA,  (Reuters) – Palestinians in Gaza were waiting today to see if there would be a pause in fighting to allow a polio vaccination campaign to begin, as the conflict raged across the besieged enclave, killing at least 34 people.

 (Reuters) – The members of Swedish pop group ABBA have asked U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using their music and videos at his campaign rallies, the band’s record label said today.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – A French judge put Telegram boss Pavel Durov under formal investigation on Wednesday in a probe into organized crime on the messaging app, but granted the entrepreneur bail on condition he pays 5 million euros, reports twice a week to police and does not leave French territory.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Senegal has suspended all mining activity for nearly three years on its side of the southeastern Faleme river in a decree aimed at protecting the environment and supporting local communities threatened by an artisanal gold mining boom.

GAZA, (Reuters) – Teenager Diaa al-Adini was one of the few Palestinians who found a functioning hospital in war-ravaged Gaza after he was wounded by an Israeli strike.

(Reuters) – A Las Vegas, Nevada, jury yesterday found a former elected county official guilty of killing an investigative reporter who wrote critical articles about him, sentencing him to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 20 years.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – At least three people were killed in southwestern Japan yesterday as Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in Kagoshima prefecture, bringing heavy rain and very strong winds as well as snarling air traffic and knocking out power to over a quarter million households.

 NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Chinese lenders approved loans worth $4.61 billion to Africa last year, marking the first annual increase since 2016, an independent study showed yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump mounted a “sustained, detailed effort” to attack a major gathering of some sort before deciding to target the Republican presidential candidate at a Pennsylvania rally in July, FBI officials said on Wednesday.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Britain and Germany’s leaders agreed in Berlin today to work on an ambitious treaty covering issues from defence to trade that would be part of a reset of British relations with the European Union.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co DIS.N and Reliance Industries RELI.NS won approval today for an $8.5 billion merger of their Indian media assets after assuaging regulatory worries about their grip on broadcasting rights for cricket, India’s favourite sport.

LAGOS,  (Reuters) – More than 31.8 million Nigerians are acutely short of food due to security challenges and the removal of fuel subsidies, the government said yesterday, citing a study by several of the country’s international development partners.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump was hit by a new federal indictment yesterday in his bid to overturn his 2020 election defeat, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) –  Democratic Republic of Congo’s government has asked Japan to donate at least 2 million doses of mpox vaccine, a senior official at Africa’s top public health body and a Congolese official said yesterday.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Attacks by separatist militants in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan are aimed at stopping development projects that form part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday that a total of 21 Oropouche virus disease cases among U.S.

WINDHOEK,  (Reuters) – Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across southern Africa, the environment ministry said.

LONDON/CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than expected and often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track it.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Attacks by separatist militants in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan are aimed at stopping development projects that form part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said today.