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After attacks curtailed exports through the Red Sea port of Yanbu, Saudi Aramco has sold roughly 60 million barrels from Ras Tanura for loading by ship-to-ship transfer off Oman's Sohar, lifting Gulf exports back to 1-1.5 million barrels a day and sending global futures down more than a dollar on Friday.
Source: Reuters
Read the original story →California signed Executive Order N-9-26 on Friday, pulling the launch of its independent AI auditor system forward by roughly two years and ordering recommendations on an emergency shut-off for frontier models by 16 November.
Source: NBC News
Read the original story →Health workers in Bunia, the epicentre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, began receiving the Ervebo vaccine on Saturday, in an operation backed by the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders that aims to reach 50,000 front-line workers across Ituri and North Kivu.
Source: Al Jazeera / AFP / AP
Read the original story →US median asking rent fell year over year for a 37th consecutive month in August, to $1,699 across the 50 largest metros — $65 below the summer 2022 peak — while the share of listings offering concessions reached a record 43.5 percent.
Source: Realtor.com Economic Research
Read the original story →Pennsylvania is carrying the largest measles outbreak in the United States — 767 cases and four deaths, the first in the state in 35 years. State health officials say vaccinations rose 84 percent in August as the outbreak spread.
Source: Pennsylvania Department of Health, reported 19-20 September
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