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(Reuters) Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway for voters who sign his free-speech and gun-rights petition falls into a gray area of election law, and legal experts are divided about whether the billionaire supporter of Donald Trump could be running afoul of prohibitions on paying people to register to vote.

BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel said late on Sunday it was preparing attacks on sites linked to the financial operations of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group within hours and told residents to leave those areas immediately, as it intensified assaults there and in Gaza.

CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldovans voted on Sunday in a presidential election and a referendum that could make or break their country’s efforts to join the European Union, after allegations of Russian interference.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s impeached deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua, said on Sunday his security protection team had been withdrawn and that President William Ruto would be responsible if anything happened to him.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk promised on Saturday to give away $1 million each day until November’s election to someone who signs his online petition, with the first prize awarded at a PAC event supporting Republican Donald Trump, raising questions about the legality of the payments.

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto on Sunday took over as president of the world’s third-largest democracy, vowing to combat internal issues such as corruption that plague the country and to make it more self-sufficient.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The two main parties contesting an election in the western Canadian province of British Columbia were tied after most votes had been counted, provisional results showed on Sunday, and it could be days before a winner emerges.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Unidentified people abducted, beat and seriously injured a senior Tanzanian opposition party official before dumping her in a forest, her party said on Sunday, a month after a similar abduction and murder of another of its party leaders.

ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – With the U.S. presidential election little more than two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited another kind of American temple: a McDonald’s.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Floods in Bangladesh have destroyed an estimated 1.1 million metric tons of rice, according to data from the agriculture ministry, prompting the country to ramp up imports of the staple grain amid soaring food prices.

(Reuters) – Ukraine struck a manufacturer of military explosives deep inside Russian territory overnight, as well as storage infrastructure at a military airfield in the Lipetsk region, Kyiv’s General Staff said in a statement today.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – A total of 87 people were killed or missing under the rubble after an Israeli attack on Saturday on northern Gaza’s town of Beit Lahiya, with more than 40 wounded, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said on Sunday.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel struck what it said were Hezbollah arms facilities in southern Beirut on Saturday after the Lebanese armed group fired rockets into northern Israel and a spokesman said a drone was launched at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s holiday home.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s foreign minister said a new multilateral sanctions monitoring team led by the United States was “utterly unlawful and illegitimate”, state media reported on Sunday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Gunmen killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing multiple rounds at a car in which they were travelling on Saturday, rights groups said, ratcheting up tensions ahead of protests against a disputed election result.

KYIV (Reuters) – The involvement of North Korean troops in the Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a “huge” escalation risk, Ukraine’s foreign minister told a joint press conference alongside his French counterpart in Kyiv on Saturday.

SHENGJIN, Albania (Reuters) – An Italian coastguard vessel collected migrants that were held in reception centres in Albania and transferred them to Italy on Saturday, after a court ruling dealt a blow to Rome’s plans to house migrants picked up at sea outside the EU.

TORONTO (Reuters) – Twice since July 2022, Moninder Singh, spokesperson for a Sikh advocacy group in Canada’s British Columbia province, has had police come to his door in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey.

NAIROBI, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Kenyan President William Ruto chose Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki as his new deputy on Friday, but a court blocked his appointment until it hears a case next week challenging the impeachment of Kindiki’s predecessor.

DUBAI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip, marked a major triumph for Israel.