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Brazil's Lula defeats Bolsonaro in presidential runoff

Former Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday defeated incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential runoff.Lula got 50.8 percent of the votes

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Russia halts Ukraine Black Sea grain exports over ship attack claim

Russia on Saturday suspended participation in the UN-brokered Black Sea grain deal after what it said was a major Ukrainian drone attack on its fleet and civilian ships

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U.S. economic growth rebounds in Q3 on trade, but demand is slowing

U.S. economic growth rebounded more than expected in the third quarter amid a continued decline in the trade deficit, but that overstates the economy's health as the Fe

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Saudi Arabia 'maturer guys' in spat with U.S., energy minister says

Saudi Arabia decided to be the "maturer guys" in a spat with the United States over oil supplies, the kingdom's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Tues

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Rishi Sunak says he will fix problems, tackle economic crisis as UK PM

Rishi Sunak gave a speech at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday after being appointed by King Charles III as the new British prime minister, he had accepted an invitation to

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Japan Cabinet minister resigns over Unification Church ties

Japan’s economy minister submitted his resignation Monday over ties to the Unification Church after facing mounting criticism in a widening controversy involving dozens

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Jan. 6 panel won't let Trump turn testimony into circus: Vice chair

The House committee investigating the Capitol riot won't give former President U.S. Donald Trump the chance to turn a possible live TV appearance of his subpoenaed test

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Biden to lay out plan to complete emergency oil sales, support U.S. production

U.S. President Joe Biden will announce a plan on Wednesday to sell off the last portion of the release from the nation's emergency oil reserve by year's end and detail

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Asia stocks rise as relief rally builds after UK U-turn

Asia stocks nudged higher on Tuesday as the dramatic U-turn in British fiscal policy brightened investor sentiment, while the U.S. dollar took a breather at its lowest

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Iranian FM responses to EU sanctions on Iran's morality police, minister

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian reacted on Monday to the European Union (EU)'s new sanctions on Tehran, calling them "superfluous" and "an unconstruct

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Kenya's Parliament begins vetting cabinet nominees

Kenya's Parliament on Monday began the vetting process for President William Ruto's cabinet nominees nearly three weeks since they were announced.The vetting procedure

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German central bank head says rate hikes 'needed' in eurozone

Higher interest rates are necessary in the eurozone, whose central bank has joined others around the world in hiking rates to cool prices, the head of Germany's Bundesb

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Brazil's da Silva, Bolsonaro clash in 1st one-on-one debate

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro clashed in their first one-on-one debate Sunday, two weeks before the presidential elec

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Gas leaks and pipeline 'sabotage' as Germany reels from energy crisis

Germany's supply of crude oil from Russia has taken a hit after a leak was confirmed in the Polish section of the Druzhba pipeline. While authorities in Warsaw have sai

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China to unswervingly promote high-level opening-up: Foreign Ministry spokesperson

Currently, the world economy is facing multiple challenges including unilateralism and protectionism. China will firmly support economic globalization and unswervingly

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U.S. scrambles to prevent export curbs on China chips from disrupting supply chain

The U.S. is scrambling to tackle unintended consequences of its new export curbs on China's chip industry that could inadvertently harm the semiconductor supply chain,

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Four African countries among 14 elected to Human Rights Council

Four African countries were on Tuesday elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the period 2023-2025 during a vote at the 77th United Nations General Asse