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World Daily News In Brief – Friday 21/10/2022

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. REUTERS (UK)

Who will replace Truss as UK prime minister? Sunak? Mordaunt? Johnson?

Liz Truss quit on Thursday after the shortest, most chaotic tenure of any British prime minister, forced out after her economic programme shattered the country’s reputation for financial stability and left many people poorer.

. AL JAZEERA (QATAR)

EU fails to agree on cap on gas prices after 11 hour summit

European Union leaders have failed to reach an agreement on a plan to help protect their citizens from surging energy prices, despite hours of wrangling at a summit in Brussels.

. NIKKEI ASIA (JAPAN)

Ukraine latest: Blasts heard in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, officials say

Iran troops in Crimea help Russia launch drones, U.S. says; Moscow swipes at Liz Truss

. THE RIO TIMES (JAPAN)

U.S. blockade of Cuba causes losses to the island of US$6.364 billion in the last 14 months

The economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba since 1962 caused losses to the island of US$6.364 billion in the last 14 months, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla said on Wednesday