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MIDRAND, South Africa,  (Reuters) – South African political parties geared up for coalition talks as the governing African National Congress (ANC) looked set to fall well short of a majority in this week’s election, the first time this has happened in 30 years of democracy.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump said yesterday he would appeal the guilty verdict that made him the first U.S.

GAZA, (Reuters) – Palestinian Islamist group Hamas yesterday said it had a positive view of the contents of a three-phase ceasefireproposal announced by U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump made history yesterday as the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ is working on a complex deal to be agreed at its meeting on Sunday that will allow the group to extend some of its deep oil production cuts into 2025, three sources familiar with OPEC+ discussions said on Thursday.

MIDRAND, South Africa, (Reuters) – South African parties geared up for coalition talks today as the governing African National Congress (ANC) looked set to fall well short of a majority for the first time in 30 years of democracy.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime yesterday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.

MIDRAND, South Africa,  (Reuters) – The African National Congress looked set to lose the parliamentary majority it has held for 30 years, partial election results yesterday showed, as voters punished the former liberation movement for years of decline in South Africa.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in a dawn airstrike on Rafah in southern Gaza yesterday and fighting raged in several other areas of the coastal enclave, Gaza medics said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime today when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.

MIDRAND, South Africa,  (Reuters) – The African National Congress looked set today to lose the parliamentary majority it has held for 30 years, as partial election results suggested it would need a partner to stay in power – a first in South Africa’s post-apartheid history.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France could soon send military trainers to Ukraine despite the concerns of some allies and criticism by Russia, and may announce its decision next week during a visit by the Ukrainian president, three diplomatic sources said.

 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s ruling junta has lost control over vast tracts of territory, including access to much of its international borders, allowing ethnic armed groups to expand and consolidate regions under their control, two reports assessing the conflict said today.

KWAMASHU, South Africa,  (Reuters) – South Africans voted yesterday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, amid high turnout and with opinion polls suggesting the African National Congress may lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial finished their first day of closed-door deliberations yesterday without reaching a verdict that would decide the fate of the only U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli forces have taken control of a buffer zone along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, the country’s military said yesterday, giving Israel effective authority over the Palestinian territory’s entire land border.

(REUTERS) – Gold smuggling out of Africa, mainly to the United Arab Emirates, has surged over the last decade, with hundreds of tonnes of gold worth tens of billions of dollars illegally leaving the continent every year, according to a report published yesterday.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea’s rare swipe at China this week underscored how Beijing and Pyongyang do not entirely see eye-to-eye on the latter’s illicit nuclear weapons arsenal, despite warming ties in other areas, analysts and officials in South Korea said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s first Black woman lawmaker, Diane Abbott, said today she was dismayed the opposition Labour Party looked set to bar her as an election candidate over comments she made over a year ago about Jews and racism.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin had appointed Alexei Dyumin, an aide and former bodyguard, as secretary of the State Council, an advisory body to the Russian head of state.