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@Reuters: South African rand marginally weaker; all eyes on budget speech reut.rs/40kwmvh



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Floods in Spain’s Valencia Region Kill Dozens


Over 1,000 soldiers from Spain’s emergency response units have been deployed to the eastern part of the country.

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@Reuters: Botswana’s Debswana diamond sales fall over 50% in first nine months of 2024 reut.rs/3AgU3di



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@Reuters: Rescue teams in Argentina search for survivors in the rubble after a ten-story hotel building collapsed reut.rs/3YHonHl



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@Reuters: Gazprom subsidiary files $880 mln claim against Linde reut.rs/3YsYj1q



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@Reuters: Tech giant Alphabet says its investments in AI are paying off. The Google parent beat profit forecasts for the third quarter and said sales at its cloud unit jumped by more than a third reut.rs/4hiS88R



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@Reuters: French economy expanded 0.4% in Q3, INSEE says reut.rs/3C20EJ3



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A New Zealand city waves goodbye to its giant hand sculpture that many came to love


Perched on two fingers on the roof of an art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand, the giant sculpture of a hand has loomed over the city for five years.

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@guardian: Britain has closed its eyes to long Covid – which means it will ravage even more lives and livelihoods