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The long hot summer is drawing to a close. And while resolutions to the current economic and political strife appear a long way from resolution — the UK’s summer of discontent, for instance, is turning into an autumn of industrial unrest — we will enter a new season of leadership in the next seven days.The UK’s Conservative party leadership…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, made a small trim in their supplies to the global economy Monday, underlining their unhappiness as recession fears help drive down crude prices — along with the cost of gasoline, to drivers’ delight.The decision for October rolls back a mostly symbolic increase…

CNN  —  A manhunt is underway in Canada for two “armed and dangerous” men who are suspects in a mass stabbing Sunday that left at least 10 dead and 15 injured at multiple scenes in an Indigenous community and the surrounding area in Saskatchewan, authorities say. The…

At approximately 12:30 p.m. local time (7:30 a.m. ET) the ruling Conservative Party will announce the results of its leadership election, in which the two contenders in the final round, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former finance minister Rishi Sunak, sharply criticized each other's plans.Truss, a low-tax evangelist and the poster-child for…

Comment on this storyCommentSANTIAGO, Chile — Chileans on Sunday delivered a resounding rejection to a new leftist constitution that aimed to transform the country into a more egalitarian society.In a referendum, Chilean voters were asked to approve or reject a proposal to replace the country’s 1980 dictatorship-era constitution — considered one…

This July 26, 2018 file photo shows the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology building in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- The full-scale implementation of digital textbooks is set to begin in the 2024 academic year in English classes for fifth grade to third-year middle school students in Japan.…

Around a hundred German soldiers have disembarked in Klaipeda. AFP   The troops drove off the ferry in the port city of Klaipeda. They were to make up the command unit of a new brigade, a group usually made up of around 4,000 soldiers. "Our message to our allies here, on the eastern flank, is that we are committed to ensuring security," said…

Qantas has an enviable safety record, consistently ranked as either the safest airline in the world or not far from it.Since the dawn of the Jet Age, it has never suffered a fatal accident or lost an aeroplane hull, which is a credit to its staff and its leadership.But in the aviation chaos of the past few months — amid huge numbers of delayed…

CNN  —  Seven people were struck by gunfire overnight in Norfolk, Virginia, including several university students, officials said Sunday. Officers responded to the 5000 block of Killam Avenue around 12 a.m. ET and found four women and three men who had been shot,…

More governments will need to intervene to relieve the strains on Europe’s power market, officials and industry figures have warned, after Sweden and Finland launched emergency backstops for their energy producers and UK electricity generators called on the British government to help.The Nordic states this weekend both announced emergency…