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LONDON/DUBAI, (Reuters) – OPEC+ agreed today to extend most of its deep oil output cuts for 2024 but to start phasing them out in 2025, as the group seeks to shore up the market amid tepid global demand growth, high interest rates and rising rival U.S.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskiy’s unscheduled appearance at Asia’s biggest security conference dominated proceedings today after China’s defence chief slammed “separatists” in Taiwan, drawing a sharp response from the government in Taipei.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded yesterday, TV exit polls said, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) –  South Africans angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed support for the African National Congress (ANC) to 40% in this week’s election, ending three decades of dominance by the party that freed the country from apartheid.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Gaza conflict mediators yesterday urged Israel and Hamas to finalise a ceasefire and hostage release deal outlined by U.S.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon yesterday, a landmark mission aiming to retrieve the world’s first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere, China’s space agency said.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa was set to end three decades of dominance by the party that freed it from apartheid today, as voters angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed the African National Congress’s (ANC) share of the vote to 40%.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today  there could be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas was destroyed, casting doubt on a key part of a truce proposal that U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded today, TV exit polls said, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.

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.

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.