Learn “reserves”, “runoff”, “allegations” in slow English. From: G7 agrees to release emergency oil and diesel reserves.
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- G7 agrees to release emergency oil and diesel reserves
- Ten people injured after car hits rugby fans in Australia
- Brazil’s presidential election campaign reaches its final stage
- Tennessee execution leaves Christa Pike unconscious and on a ventilator
- New York appoints special prosecutor in Cornell rape case
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- RechercheBackground: In March 2026, the International Energy Agency ordered a separate release of 400 million barrels of government-held crude oil. The Guardian described it as the largest such release in the agency’s history.
- BBC NewsG7 to release millions of barrels of oil and diesel after Trump threat
- NPRThe G7 will release 100 million reserve barrels of diesel fuel over the next 4 months
- RechercheOfficials said the driver appeared to be driving erratically before losing control of the vehicle. The circumstances remain under investigation.
- The GuardianFive-year-old girl and man, 67, in critical condition after car hits crowd in Newcastle
- ABC NewsCar drives into large crowd of rugby fans, injuring multiple people in Sydney
- RechercheLula held a final campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro, while supporters of both major candidates gathered for rival events across Brazil.
- NPRBrazil's big political rematch: What to know
- Deutsche WelleUS, Australia suspend consular services in Brazil
- RechercheJair Bolsonaro, Flávio Bolsonaro’s father and Brazil’s former president, was sentenced in 2025 to 27 years in prison for attempting to overturn the result of the previous presidential election.
- RechercheThe election is effectively a rematch of Brazil’s polarized 2022 presidential contest, but Bolsonaro’s son Flávio is now the main right-wing candidate because former president Jair Bolsonaro is not running.
- RechercheThe final televised debate was cancelled after Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro both declined to take part, amid disputes over decisions by Brazil’s electoral court and Supreme Court.
- CBC NewsChrista Pike on ventilator after surviving Tennessee execution attempt, lawyer says
- BBC NewsUS murderer Christa Pike unconscious and on ventilator after failed execution, lawyers say
- Le MondeAfter botched Tennessee execution, Christa Pike on a ventilator and unconscious
- RechercheBy October 2, Pike was unconscious, in critical condition, and on a mechanical ventilator, according to her lawyers. They said both arms were swollen, burned, and blistered after problems with the intravenous lines.
- RechercheThe Pike case followed another failed Tennessee execution attempt in May 2026, when officials could not establish a suitable IV line for Tony Carruthers.
- RechercheTennessee had already faced an earlier review of its execution system. After the state stopped the execution of Oscar Smith in 2022, an independent report found that officials had not properly tested lethal-injection drugs and had not consistently followed the state’s own procedures.
- RechercheTennessee Governor Bill Lee canceled the state’s remaining scheduled execution for 2026 and ordered an independent review of the failed procedure.
- RechercheTennessee switched from a three-drug lethal-injection method to the single drug pentobarbital in 2024.
- RecherchePike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a classmate at a job-training facility in Knoxville. Pike was 18 when the crime happened; she would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
- ABC NewsAG Letitia James appointed special prosecutor in Cornell 'gang rape' case
- Al Jazeera‘I want the truth’: NY governor appoints prosecutor in Cornell rape case
- Deutsche WelleNew York governor condemns handling of Cornell rape case