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TIRANA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Several thousand Albanians
protested in the capital on Saturday to demand Prime Minister
Edi Rama scrap a law allowing waste imports for recycling that
has revived fears the country could become Europe's refuse dump.

KINSHASA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The president of Democratic
Republic of Congo's electoral commission said on Saturday that
he expects the presidential election, originally scheduled for
this November, to be delayed until December 2018, lawmakers
present at his speech said.

DUBAI, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Hungary has struck a deal to buy
one million barrels of crude oil from Iran, director for
international affairs at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)
said on Saturday.

MADRID, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Amancio Ortega, Europe's richest
man and founder of global fashion group and Zara owner Inditex
, has bought one of Madrid's most famous skyscrapers for
490 million euros ($551 million) through his property investment
arm, a source said.

BAGHDAD, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Iraq exported 935,270 barrels of
oil in September via pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port
of Ceyhan, the oil ministry said on Saturday.

Oct 1 (Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew weakened slightly early
on Saturday as it moved towards Jamaica and Cuba with winds of
up to 155 miles per hour (250 kph) powerful enough to wreck
houses, forecasters said.

ABUJA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Nigeria has spent 720.5 billion
naira ($2.4 billion) on capital expenditure this year to help
drag Africa's biggest economy out of recession, President
Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Malaysian state oil firm
Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or Petronas, said it "categorically
denied" a Reuters report that it was considering selling its
majority stake in a $27 billion Canadian liquefied natural gas
(LNG) project.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew
surged in power on Friday to become the Caribbean's first major
hurricane in four years as it moved towards Jamaica and Cuba
with winds of up to 150 miles per hour (240 kph) powerful enough
to wreck houses, forecasters said.

TORONTO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell
on Friday as this week's rally in energy stocks paused and gold
stocks retreated as concerns about the health of Germany's
biggest bank eased.

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