Donald Trump was struggling Monday to contain the blast radius of a fierce backlash to racist rhetoric targeting Puerto Ricans at his weekend rally, just nine days ahead of a presidential election that could be determined by the Latino vote.The Republican was seeking to spell out his closing pitch and energize his base Sunday with …
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Tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets Monday to protest against the ruling party’s victory in parliamentary polls denounced as “stolen” by the pro-Western opposition, while Georgia’s president alleged to AFP that the vote was rigged using “sophisticated” methods she linked to Russia.The Caucasus country — rocked by mass anti-government protests earlier this year …
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Georgia’s pro-European president Salome Zurabishvili in an interview with AFP Monday alleged that parliamentary polls — whose results have been rejected by the opposition — were marred by widespread voting fraud bearing the hallmarks of Russia’s influence.According to near-final results announced by the electoral commission, the ruling party Georgian Dream won 53.92 percent of the …
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Kamala Harris crisscrosses Michigan on Monday while Donald Trump heads to Georgia — another of the decisive swing states in one of the closest US elections in history — after presiding over a dark mega-rally aimed at whipping up his right-wing base.With only a week until November 5 Election Day, more than 41 million Americans …
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Thousands of Georgians took to the streets Monday to protest against the ruling party’s victory in parliamentary polls denounced as “stolen” by the pro-Western opposition, while Georgia’s president alleged to AFP that the vote was rigged using “sophisticated” methods she linked to Russia.The Caucasus country — rocked by mass protests earlier this year — has plunged …
Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, the UN warned on Monday, with countries falling “miles short” of what is needed to curb devastating global warming.Levels of the three main greenhouse gases — heat-trapping carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide — all increased yet again last year, said the World …
Georgia’s pro-Western opposition called for protests Monday after disputed elections that it denounced as “stolen”, while the country’s president alleged in an interview with AFP that the vote was rigged using “sophisticated” methods with Russian help.The Caucasus country — rocked by mass protests earlier this year — has plunged into political uncertainty since Saturday’s vote, …
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More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, threatening life as we know it on Earth, according to a report published Monday.The warning came in the Global Tree Assessment, contained in an update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.Issued to coincide …
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An attack by jihadist group Boko Haram killed around 40 Chadian troops overnight near the Nigerian border, prompting an army operation to hunt down the militants, the government and local sources said on Monday.Members of Boko Haram targeted a garrison housing more than 200 Chadian soldiers late Sunday in the Lake Chad region, an area …
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The trial of French actor Gerard Depardieu on sexual assault charges opened on Monday in the absence of the celebrity, who had declared himself to be ill.His lawyer, Jeremie Assous, had said earlier that Depardieu, 75, was “extremely affected” by ill health, and that he had asked for proceedings to be delayed until he could …
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