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A Warm October Forced PJM to Pay Customers to Cut Power Use

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- For two afternoons this week, the grid operator for 13 states and the District of Columbia paid customers to use less electricity, while keeping in reserve a federal order that ... Read More


West Bank Olive Harvest Opens With Settler Attacks Past Last Year's Total

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- Many Palestinian communities in the West Bank began picking their olives early this year, before the harvest officially opened on Thursday, to lower the risk of attack, the UN hum... Read More


95 Arrested, One Child Rescued: INTERPOL Sweep Hits Abuse Chat Groups

LYON, Oct. 16 -- Colombian police safeguarded a five-year-old victim and arrested the child's parent, who INTERPOL says had been producing and selling abuse material online. The case sits inside a sev... Read More


Tinubu Launches Re-Election Bid With Wike, Soludo and Adeleke at His Side

ABUJA, Oct. 16 -- Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke danced. Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory minister whom the State House statement calls the leader of the PDP, told President Bola Tinubu... Read More


Aleppo Court Sentences Two to Death, Clears Two Defence Ministry Members

ALEPPO, Oct. 16 -- Two men were sentenced to death by a military court here on Thursday, while two Defence Ministry members tried in the same case for intentional homicide were acquitted for insuffici... Read More


Japan Warned of a Magnitude 9.9 Quake. The Real One Was a 6.9 in Kamchatka

New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- At 12:40 p.m. on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued an earthquake early warning for a stretch of Japan running from Hokkaido to the Chubu region. It rested on a magni... Read More


Ottawa Weighs Forcing Stelco's US Owner to Sell Canadian Assets

HAMILTON, Oct. 16 -- Stelco handed more layoff notices to unionized workers at its Hamilton plant this week, and on Wednesday the minister who could take its American owner to court said a forced sale... Read More


Supreme Court Shields FCC From 48-Hour Deadline in Party Ad-Rate Fight

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Sherrod Brown and three other Democratic candidates have waited more than five months for the Federal Communications Commission to say whether party committees may buy campaign ... Read More


ECB Clears UniCredit to Control Commerzbank, Leaving Berlin to Bargain

FRANKFURT, Oct. 16 -- The European Central Bank has cleared a major regulatory hurdle between UniCredit and control of Commerzbank, leaving a German lender that resisted the Italian bank for almost tw... Read More


Vatican Foreign Minister Defends Talking to Those Who Broke the Peace

LONDON, Oct. 16 -- On the day the Vatican said Pope Leo has lung cancer, the Holy See's foreign minister used a London lecture to defend its most criticised habit: talking to leaders it does not endor... Read More