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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.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A Russian missile strike has damaged infrastructure and an Antigua-flagged civilian vessel in the Ukrainian port of Odesa, the regional governor said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The late Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed sexually abused female staff at his London department store Harrods, forced them to have medical screenings and threatened consequences if they tried to complain, lawyers for alleged victims said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. officials now believe that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza is unlikely before President Joe Biden leaves office in January, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) –  Components used in thousands of pagers that detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon in a deadly blow to Hezbollah were not made in Taiwan, Taiwan’s economy minister said yesterday.

FARMINGTON HILLS, Michigan, (Reuters) – A star-studded virtual event hosted by Oprah Winfrey last night to build enthusiasm for Kamala Harris’ campaign was marked by teary moments and celebrity endorsements, drawing hundreds of thousands of viewers across social media.