World News: 05 September 2022

Liz Truss set to become new UK Conservative prime minister
The 47-year-old Truss, who is currently foreign secretary, beat former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak after a leadership contest in which only about 170,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss received 81,326 votes, compared with Sunak's 60,399.

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Kremlin claims sanctions are holding up natural gas supplies
The sanctions on Moscow and Russian companies have created problems with equipment maintenance, he said, though that claim has been refuted by Western governments and engineers.

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OPEC+ cuts oil supplies to the world as prices fall
Oil prices have gyrated in recent months: Recession fears have pushed them down, while worries of a loss of Russian oil because of sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine pushed them up.

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7 dead after powerful quake shakes southwest China
The 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous area in Luding county in Sichuan province shortly after noon, the China Earthquake Networks Center said. Sichuan, which sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau where tectonic plates meet, is regularly hit by earthquakes. Two quakes in June killed at least four people.

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Kyrgios beats 2021 champ Medvedev, discusses mental state
During his on-pitch interview, Kyrgios sheepishly told the crowd: “I still can’t believe what a stupid game I made here. I thought it was legal. It’s going to be all over the SportsCenter, so I’m going to like an idiot.”

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Suicide attack at Russia embassy in Kabul kills 2 diplomats
The blast went off at the entrance to the embassy’s consular section, where Afghans were waiting for news about their visas, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry and the state news agency RIA Novosti. A Russian diplomat had emerged from the building to call out the names of candidates for visas when the explosion occurred, the agency said.

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