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MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr told U.S. cabinet secretaries Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin yesterday that regular engagements between Manila and Washington were needed to ensure “agile” responses to his country’s maritime tensions with China.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – At Singapore’s House of Seafood restaurant, the fish-head curry comes with a side of crunchy crickets, the tofu has bugs crawling out of it and the patrons can’t get enough.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) –  An Israeli drone strike killed two people and wounded three more in southern  Lebanon  yesterday, the Lebanese civil defence said, as Lebanon braced for Israeli retaliation following a rocket strike that killed 12 teenagers and children at the weekend.

SABAC, Serbia, (Reuters) – Thousands rallied yesterday in the Serbian city of Sabac to protest the Rio Tinto RIO.L, 

LONDON, (Reuters) – Mozambique has substantially won its $3.1-billion lawsuit at London’s High Court against Emirati-Lebanese shipbuilder Privinvest for allegedly paying bribes in relation to the decade-old “tuna bond” scandal.

PARIS, ( Reuters) – Vandals attacked telecoms lines in parts of France overnight, disrupting some fixed and mobile services, the junior minister for digital matters, Marina Ferrari, said on X today.

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to decide on the “manner and timing” of a response to a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 teenagers and children, and which Israel and the United States blamed on Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris’s election campaign said on Sunday it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, as Republicans continued to hammer Harris over her work as vice president.

BENGHAZI (Reuters) – A Libyan court has jailed 12 officials in connection with the collapse of a series of dams in Derna last year that killed thousands of the city’s residents, the Attorney General said on Sunday.

ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out what sort of intervention he was suggesting.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new finance minister, Rachel Reeves, will accuse the former Conservative government on Monday of committing to billions of pounds of spending that has not been properly budgeted for.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s election campaign said today  it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin today warned the United States that if Washington deployed long-range missiles in Germany then Russia would station similar missiles in striking distance of the West.

(Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris cast herself as the “underdog” in the presidential race and called her Republican opponent Donald Trump “just plain weird,” while Trump painted Harris as “evil,” “sick” and “unhinged” as the rivals exchanged barbs from afar yesterday.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Progress has been made suppressing fires in the Canadian tourist town of Jasper, with the remaining ones expected to be put out by the end of the day, authorities said yesterday.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children yesterday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to inflict a heavy price on the Iran-backed Lebanese group.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s government declared the country was “broke and broken” ahead of an assessment of the public finances on Monday which the newly-elected Labour Party will use to blame their predecessors for a 20 billion pound ($26 billion) shortfall.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Ukraine next month, a local media report said, his first visit to the country since its war with Russia began and just weeks after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said yesterday he will return to the Pennsylvania town where he narrowly survived an assassination attempt, while Vice President Kamala Harris capped her week-long bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee with former President Barack Obama’s endorsement.

(Reuters) – Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including the largest fire currently burning in the U.S.,