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US Vice President Kamala Harris and election rival Donald Trump traded barbs across battleground states Friday before converging on Wisconsin’s biggest city for competing rallies, a dramatic split-screen image in the final days of a volatile presidential race.With political heat reaching a boil ahead of Election Day November 5, Trump faced criticism for violent rhetoric …

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Lebanon’s prime minister accused Israel on Friday of rejecting a ceasefire after the Israeli military bombed Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold for the first time this week.In Gaza, where Israel has been engaged in a major offensive in the north for nearly a month, a Hamas official said the Palestinian militant group had rejected a proposal for …

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North Korea will stand by Russia until its victory in Ukraine, Pyongyang’s foreign minister said in Moscow Friday, as the United States warned thousands of North Korean troops could be sent to combat in the Ukraine conflict in the coming days. North Korea’s Choe Son Hui is on a visit to Moscow as the West believes …

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Rescuers raised the death toll in Spain’s worst floods for a generation to 205 on Friday and fears grew for the dozens missing as hopes of finding survivors faded.The floods that have tossed vehicles, collapsed bridges and covered towns with mud since Tuesday are the European country’s deadliest such disaster in decades.The organisation coordinating emergency …

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Donald Trump came under fire for violent rhetoric against a prominent Kamala Harris supporter Friday as the candidates hold dueling rallies in battleground Wisconsin four days before the climax of the most volatile US presidential campaign in modern history.More than 68 million Americans have already cast early ballots ahead of Election Day on Tuesday. Opinion …

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday sued the main opposition leader and Istanbul’s powerful mayor for alleged slander in a forceful legal blow against his political rivals.Filed on Friday, the two separate lawsuits targeted Ozgur Ozel, head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), and Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, also a top party official.The lawsuit …

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Botswana’s new president took office Friday in a whirlwind transfer of power following elections that saw a historic defeat handed to the party that had governed the diamond-rich country for nearly 60 years.Human rights lawyer Duma Boko, 54, was sworn in during a closed session at the office of the chief justice three days after …

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It has been a wild US presidential election campaign, and the final week provided another selection of weird and wonderful offbeat moments.- Biden’s baby bite -President Joe Biden took a playful bite into the leg of a baby dressed as a chicken at the White House’s Halloween party.The 81-year-old pretended to sink his teeth into …

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Rescuers on Friday raised the death toll in Spain’s worst floods for a generation to 205 as the government deployed more troops in an increasingly desperate search for survivors.The floods that have tossed vehicles, collapsed bridges and covered towns with mud since Tuesday are the European country’s deadliest such disaster in decades.The organisation coordinating emergency …

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Donald Trump came under fire for violent rhetoric against a prominent Kamala Harris supporter Friday as the candidates held dueling rallies in the battleground of Wisconsin four days before the climax of the most volatile US presidential campaign in modern history.More than 66 million Americans have already cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday’s Election Day. …

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