Israeli ground forces crossed into southern Lebanon, marking a significant escalation of an offensive against Hezbollah militants; Shigeru Ishiba is set to be voted in by parliament as Japan's next prime minister and unveil his cabinet; from October, more people will benefit from government healthcare subsidies, including at public hospitals, specialist clinics and dialysis centres.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed a hotly contested artificial intelligence safety bill. In Europe, Austrian voters handed a first-ever general election victory to the far-right Freedom Party. In Asia Residents of Nepal’s flood-hit capital returned to their mud-caked homes on September 29 to survey the wreckage. In Macao the sole candidate in the election for Macao’s next leader has pledged to diversify the economy and in Singapore news train services between Jurong East and Buona Vista MRT stations on the East-West Line will remain disrupted today.

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U.S. efforts to secure a Gaza ceasefire remain stalled after nearly a year of fighting. In Europe, trade unions led protests across Spain overnight. In Asia News a Hong Kong court sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison while China’s top leaders have pledged stronger support for the economy. In Singapore, the disruption of train services between Jurong East and Buona Vista stations will last several more days.

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Israel is preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon; Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said yesterday that he will soon resume discussions with the International Monetary Fund; Citibank will close its last branch in Singapore as it focuses on serving customers online and advising affluent clients at its wealth hubs.

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U.S. President Joe Biden addressed world leaders at the United Nations for the final time. U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said he had sensed a greater willingness by Iranian officials to engage with the agency. In Asia, China’s financial regulators have announced a broad raft of measures to support a slowing economy, Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved Parliament and called for a parliamentary election. And in Singapore, the Attorney-General’s Chambers said it will take a decision in respect of property tycoon Ong Beng Seng soon.

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Israel's military said it launched airstrikes against Hezbollah sites in Lebanon yesterday, which Lebanese authorities said had killed 492 people; Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami advisory this morning to remote islands south of Tokyo; and in Singapore, SMEs facing long-drawn or complicated governmental procedures can soon approach a new office for help to streamline approval processes and cut red tape.

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in an NBC News poll. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a "Pact for the Future" on Sunday, which U-N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described as a landmark agreement. Sri Lanka elects a new president, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, continuing a multiday U.S. visit, praised the United States’ return of nearly 300 antiquities to India. And in Singapore news, more car loans have been given out here in 2024, including those for electric vehicles, which have surged in numbers in recent years.

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Hezbollah vowed to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week’s deadly sabotage of its members’ communication devices; the founder of a Taiwanese pager company linked to the detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon was questioned; a new high-tech shipyard to build and repair ships has opened in Gul Road in Singapore’s west.

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