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At least 16 people have died after a building collapsed in Gaza City, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Dozens are also missing.

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A six-storey apartment building in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa area collapsed after being damaged in earlier Israeli attacks, crushing nearby homes and tents. Gaza authorities say at least 20 people, including women and children, were killed and dozens more may be trapped. Civil Defence teams are searching for survivors, missing people and bodies, with nearly 100 Palestinians reportedly still under the rubble.

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At least 20 people were killed when a building in Gaza City that had previously been hit by an Israeli strike collapsed on Wednesday. Gaza’s civil defence said at least 100 people, including 50 children, were believed trapped beneath the rubble. Ten families were thought to have moved in because they had nowhere else to shelter.

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At least 20 people have been killed after a damaged apartment building collapsed overnight in Gaza City. Rescuers are combing through the rubble for survivors, with dozens still trapped, including women and children.

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Gaza media office spokesman Ismaeil al-Thawabta said at least 100 people remain missing and 20 bodies have been recovered from a collapsed residential building in Gaza City. He warned that severe shortages of fuel, petroleum products and electricity, together with Israel’s restrictions on supplies entering Gaza, are worsening the crisis.

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Local authorities said a war-damaged residential building in Gaza City collapsed early Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, including several children. Dozens more were feared trapped beneath the rubble.

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At least 20 people, including five children, were killed and dozens remain missing after a war-damaged building collapsed in Gaza, local rescue teams say. Searchers are continuing to look for bodies and survivors in the rubble in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa area. Residents said 10 families had lived there despite warnings that the building was unsafe.

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A building housing about six families collapsed in Gaza City overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 19 people, including children. Rescuers were searching through the rubble for dozens of others who had been sheltering inside.

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A Gaza City building sheltering displaced Palestinian families collapsed after being weakened by earlier Israeli strikes, killing at least 12 people. Rescuers are searching for about 100 people, including 50 children, but say the effort is severely hindered by a lack of heavy machinery. Fourteen injured people were taken to hospital, while voices were still heard beneath the rubble.

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A building collapsed overnight in Gaza City, killing 19 people, including at least 12 women and children. Palestinians continue to face perilous conditions during the truce.

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A five-story building housing displaced families collapsed Wednesday after being damaged in strikes early in the war, Shifa Hospital said. Five children and four women were among those killed.

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At least 12 people were killed and dozens remain missing after a multi-storey building housing displaced families collapsed in Gaza City on 16 September, according to Shifa Hospital.

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A building housing displaced Palestinian families collapsed in Gaza City, killing at least 14 people. Most of those killed were women and children.

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A Russian drone hit a passenger bus in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing five people and injuring seven, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. The strike occurred in Nikopol district, which is regularly shelled.

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At least 60 people died when a gold mine collapsed on Sunday in a remote area north of al-Nuhud in Sudan’s West Kordofan, according to three local sources who spoke to Reuters on Wednesday.

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The International Criminal Court is holding a procedural hearing ahead of the trial of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. He faces murder charges as a crime against humanity over his so-called war on drugs and is expected to appear publicly for the first time since being transferred to the ICC 18 months ago.

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Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has been sentenced to 25 years for war crimes. He resigned as president and surrendered to the court after being indicted in 2020.

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The Kosovo war crimes tribunal in The Hague convicted former president Hashim Thaci of illegal or arbitrary arrest and detention, cruel treatment and torture as war crimes. He received a 25-year sentence with credit for time served, leaving him to serve about 19 years after nearly six years in custody.

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A war crimes tribunal in The Hague has sentenced former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci to 25 years in prison for crimes linked to the 1990s war for independence from Serbian control. Judges dismissed charges of targeting civilians but convicted Thaci and co-defendants Veseli, Selimi and Krasniqi of murder, cruel treatment, torture and arbitrary detention.

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An EU-backed court convicted former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci on four war-crimes counts linked to the country’s war for independence from Serbia and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

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Hashim Thaçi, who previously served as Kosovo’s prime minister and president, was convicted by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers of murder, torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention. Tens of thousands gathered in Prishtina expecting his acquittal and watched the proceedings via livestream.

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The Kosovo Specialist Chambers convicted former President Hashim Thaci on four war-crimes counts and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. The court said he was involved in murders, torture and illegal detention while serving as a senior KLA commander. Three other former commanders also received prison terms.

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The Kosovo war crimes tribunal is set to rule on former president Hashim Thaci and several wartime commanders accused of murder and torture during the violent 1990s break from Serbia. Prosecutors are seeking 45-year prison terms for Thaci and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders, while all defendants deny the charges.

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U.S. special envoy John Coale said Belarus will release 25 political prisoners while Washington lifts sanctions on the Belarusian companies Lakokraska and Bellesbumprom. The prisoners’ identities and destinations remain unknown. Viasna estimated Belarus had 889 political prisoners at the end of August.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting Europe on Wednesday, including the European Parliament in Strasbourg and a meeting with new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham in Liverpool. European leaders are preparing to offer Canada a new special status as an “Associate Member of the European Union,” though its precise meaning remains unclear.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening the way for Canada to become the European Union’s first “associate member”. The idea follows Prime Minister Mark Carney’s call for a “unique alliance” with the EU rather than membership, with closer cooperation proposed in manufacturing, AI, critical minerals and energy.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed creating a path for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member, although the status does not currently exist.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced during the State of the Union that Canada had been invited to become the EU’s first “associate member”. The entirely new status has yet to be defined in detail, while she also proposed an alliance with Ottawa covering technology, critical raw materials, energy and defence.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urged EU countries on Wednesday to build a new partnership with Canada and confront climate change, competition from China and other major challenges in what she called an “openly hostile world.”

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On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen backed creating an opening for Canada to take the European Union’s inaugural associate-member position.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening a route for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member. Trump’s tariffs and repeated talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state have driven Ottawa to pursue closer economic and security ties with Europe.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the European Union is opening the door for Canada to become its first associate member. The proposed “unique alliance” would create a new form of partnership between the two sides.

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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that Canada could become the 27-nation bloc’s first “associate member”. She proposed closer cooperation with Canadian leader Mark Carney on technology, defence and energy.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen raised the possibility of Canada becoming the bloc’s first “associate member” and called for the relationship to reach its highest possible level through closer cooperation on technology, defence and energy.

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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told Canadian prime minister Mark Carney that she wants to open the door for Canada to become the EU’s first associate member. The approach follows US tariffs and Donald Trump’s repeated talk of making Canada the 51st US state, which pushed Ottawa to seek closer economic and security ties with Europe.

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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen suggested that Canada could become an “associate member” of the European Union while delivering her State of the Union address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed that Canada become the European Union’s first associate member. Speaking during her State of the Union address in Strasbourg, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney present, she said she wanted to work together to open that door. Stocks and bonds found some relief after days of selling as traders awaited the Federal Reserve’s latest decision.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen backed proposals for Canada to become the EU’s first “associate member”, with closer cooperation in areas including energy, critical minerals, batteries, AI, cyber and economic security. The proposal comes as Canada seeks a “unique alliance” with the EU amid tense relations and collapsed trade talks with the US.

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The European Union and Canada are preparing a new kind of alliance centered on trade and security, according to remarks European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to make in her state of the union address on Wednesday.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to join as the European Union’s first associate member during her annual state of the union speech.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU is opening the door for Canada to become its first associate member, a status that does not currently exist. In her State of the Union address, she described Europe and Canada as sharing views on issues including AI, climate change, the Arctic, geopolitics and democracy, amid an “openly hostile world.”

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union is opening the door for Canada to become the 27-nation bloc’s first associate member.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU is opening the way for Canada to become its first associate member. Such a status does not currently exist under the bloc’s treaties.

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Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled a new set of promises in her State of the Union speech, after making similarly ambitious commitments a year ago. The programme examines whether she delivered on those earlier pledges.

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Speaking in a key State of the Union address to the European Parliament, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Europe supports Israel’s right to self-defence while Palestinians have an equal right to live in safety and dignity.

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The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023, as persistent inflation and rising borrowing costs worldwide drive the move. That will intensify scrutiny of how Kevin Warsh characterizes the first monetary-policy change under his watch.

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Bitcoin is hovering near $80,000 as traders build stablecoin positions that could flow back into the market once uncertainty around the Federal Reserve clears. A surprise decision to hold rates could present a greater risk.

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Global shares are rising as investors await the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision, with expectations for a rate hike running high. U.S. stock futures have edged upward.

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The Federal Reserve is expected to announce an interest-rate increase on Wednesday, its first since 2023, as the United States faces months of elevated inflation linked to the Iran war. Global oil prices are near a four-month high, while average U.S. gasoline prices exceed $4.30 per gallon.

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Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore examine the day’s key themes for analysts and investors on Bloomberg: The Opening Trade.

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The 10-year Treasury yield is hovering above 5% as investors await the Federal Reserve’s decision. The Fed is widely expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday.

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