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Smaller earnings from big oil as Shell reports an unexpectedly sharp 70 percent drop in profits. As with BP, weak oil prices are to blame - and higher charges resulting from the Anglo-Dutch group buying BG. Laura Frykberg reports.
Royal Dutch Shell has reported a hefty $8.2 billion charge, equivalent to around 5 percent of its market value, due to write-offs on projects in the Alaskan Arctic and Canada. As Hayley Platt reports Europe's biggest oil producer isn't the only oil major grappling with weak oil prices - the whole industry is gradually slipping into a loss.
Incumbent DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi arrives at his party's headquarters in the capital Kinshasa ahead of his expected announcement as the winner of elections that opposition leaders have dismissed as a "sham". Tshisekedi, 60, has been in power since January 2019 and is running for a second five-year term. By Saturday evening, with 17.8 million votes counted, he was leading with 72 percent. IMAGES
Images of Poland's nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, gathering in Warsaw as they are expected to loose the majority in the country's parliamentary elections. The opposition party Civic Coalition (liberal), along with the Third Way and Left parties are tipped to win 248 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament, according to an exit poll. IMAGES
Finns Party supporters react with mixed feelings to the preliminary votes coming in from Sunday's general election, putting them in third place. IMAGES
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