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Our top stories. British police released one of the two men that they arrested on suspicion Our Top Stories

British police released one of the two men that they arrested on suspicion of indiscriminately stabbing passengers on a train in Cambridgeshire in eastern England.

Eleven people were taken to hospital. One remains in critical condition.

The police said that they had not determined a motive, but added that there is no reason to suspect that it was a terrorist attack.

Massoud Pasechkin, Iran's president, vowed to rebuild nuclear facilities that were damaged by America and Israeli forces in June.

Mr. Pasechkin claimed that Iran was not seeking to build a weapon, and that its nuclear program

is purely for civilian purposes. Mr. Trump has previously threatened to strike Iran again if it tries

to repair the sites. OPEC Plus, a group of oil-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia,

said that it would raise its daily output by only 137,000 barrels in December and make

no further increases in the first three months of next year. The cartel has lifted its production

targets by about 2.9 million barrels per day since April, but it has slowed down in recent months,

fearing oversupply. A spokesperson for Nigeria's president told Reuters that the government would welcome America's help

in combating jihadist terrorism, but only if the superpower respected the country's territorial

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