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The Democratic fundraising organization ActBlue raised $833 million for the party’s candidates and causes in the third quarter, a record amount that will help narrow the financial advantage the GOP enjoys with big donors in what is projected to be the most expensive election in US history.

The UK is considering cuts to its flagship program to upgrade millions of homes, as it seeks more than £2 billion ($2.6 billion) in energy-department savings to help fund higher defense spending.

The US and Australia suspended consular services in Brazil, citing “security concerns” ahead of the country’s general elections on Sunday.

Fear stalks Venezuelan migrants after mom’s two months in jail.

The political ideology once widely considered fringe is ticking up in approval.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has tasked senior officials with finding ways to fill a multi-billion pound hole in his flagship plan for a new UK care service, after aides warned it could be delayed until the end of the next decade.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto formed his first Presidential Advisory Council on Friday, bringing 26 people — including billionaires, retired generals and religious leaders — into his widening circle of aides nearly two years into office.

The US military is planning to deploy an advanced anti-ship missile system to a Japanese island close to Taiwan for the first time during a major training exercise later this month, a move that may draw China’s ire.

Another collapse could damage an arrangement that has just about managed to hold a fragile peace for almost 30 years.

Sweden’s Social Democrat leader and election winner Magdalena Andersson was asked to have a further go at forming a new government after her first attempt failed.

Spanish lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s proposal to quell popular anger over housing costs, a setback for the minority government that may prompt him to call an early general election before the end of the year.

India renamed 28 places and geographical features in the northern territory of Ladakh, asserting its claims in a disputed region where the border with China has repeatedly strained ties between the Asian neighbors.

Brazilians will vote in an election on Sunday in what polls suggest will be a tight rate between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro. If no candidate secures a majority, a runoff will follow on Oct. 25. Adriana Dupita from Bloomberg Economics breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)

The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on the European Union to release diesel stockpiles, a move seen potentially averting a ban on US exports of the critical fuel. "The Europeans, they're sitting on reserves of diesel," said US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday. "They should probably release some of these." Bloomberg’s Oliver Crook reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Swiss Economy Minister Guy Parmelin announced his resignation, saying he will leave office at the end of the year, when his one-year term as the country’s rotating president also ends.

Russia is preparing for the war in Ukraine to continue for years by planning record war spending, abandoning plans to rein in military outlays.

A months-long crisis over the monarchy in a small Malaysian state has become a potential stumbling block for the United Malays National Organization, which had been gaining ground on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

On a recent Saturday night, a minibus taxi drew up to a tavern in the gold-mining town of Carletonville west of Johannesburg. Eight men armed with AK-47 rifles alighted from the vehicle before gunning down patrons. Eighteen people died.

A historic legal ruling against Manchester City Football Club has placed diplomatic ties between the UK and the United Arab Emirates under significant strain, with billions of pounds in projected foreign investment at stake.