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ABU DHABI,  (Reuters) – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is very positive on demand for oil in both the short and long term, Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais said at an energy industry event in Abu Dhabi today.

DETROIT/KINSTON, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Democrat Kamala Harris made her closing pitch for the U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says is aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping.

PAIPORTA, Spain, (Reuters) – Hundreds of residents of a Valencia suburb particularly badly hit by last week’s deadly floods protested yesterday during a visit by Spanish King Felipe, Queen Letizia, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with some throwing mud at them.

CHISINAU, (Reuters) – Moldova’s pro-Western incumbent Maia Sandu claimed victory at yesterday’s closely-fought presidential election, defeating Alexandr Stoianoglo, her rival backed by the traditionally pro-Russian Socialist Party.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran’s leadership and allies are bracing for what they would regard as a dreadful outcome of the imminent U.S. presidential

VALENCIA, Spain, (Reuters) – The deadliest flash floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 214 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Kemi Badenoch became the Conservatives’ new leader and the first Black woman to a head a major British political party on Saturday, after winning a leadership contest on a promise to return the party to its founding principles.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has surpassed Republican Donald Trump in a new poll in Iowa, with likely women voters responsible for the turnaround in a state that Trump easily won in 2016 and 2020, according to the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll released yesterday.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian forces are restraining one of Russia’s most powerful offensives since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour, the top commander of Kyiv’s forces said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Two Ohio police officers were indicted by a grand jury in the death of a Black man whom officers restrained with a knee near his neck while he cried “I can’t breathe,” the county prosecutor announced yesterday, in a case that evoked memories of the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – An Israeli naval force mounted a “special operation” in the northern Lebanese coastal town of Batroun early on Friday and captured one person, a security source said.

CALI, Colombia, (Reuters) – Countries at the U.N. COP16 summit on nature yesterday approved a measure to create a permanent body for Indigenous peoples to consult on United Nations decisions about nature conservation.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Kemi Badenoch won a race today to become the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, vowing to return the once dominant party to its founding principles to win back voters who handed the Conservatives their worst election defeat in July.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is “apocalyptic” as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations officials warned yesterday.

GABORONE, (Reuters) – Botswana’s voters delivered a shock defeat to the party that has ruled them for nearly six decades, registering their anger over economic stagnation linked to a decline in the diamond trade by handing victory to opposition presidential candidate Duma Boko.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – PepsiCo PEP.O won the dismissal of New York’s lawsuit accusing the beverage and snack-food company of polluting the environment with single-use plastic packaging, as the judge criticized the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, for bringing the case.

PORT LOUIS,  (Reuters) – Mauritius’ communications regulator ordered all internet service providers to suspend access to social media platforms on Friday until Nov.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Remittances sent to Mexico recorded their largest annual drop in eleven years in September, down 4.6% from the same month in 2023, according to data released yesterday by Mexico’s central bank.

GABORONE, (Reuters) – Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat today after a shock election result that saw his Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) lose by a landslide after 58 years in power.