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American intelligence officials on Friday blamed Russia for a fake video of a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times, the latest in a series of disinformation campaigns in the final stretch of the US election.The United States is on heightened alert for a potential flood of falsehoods from Kremlin-aligned actors in the closing days …

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Negotiators at the world’s biggest nature conservation conference knuckled down in Cali, Colombia on Friday for a last-ditch effort to break a deadlock on funding for efforts to “halt and reverse” species loss.The Colombian presidency of the summit, which opened on October 21 and was programmed to run until Friday, proposed a raft of late-night …

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At least 12 people were killed Friday after part of an outdoor roof collapsed at a train station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, the interior minister said. “The current number of bodies recovered is 12,” Ivica Dacic told public broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia, revising upwards an earlier toll of eight dead and warning …

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The United States announced Friday that it will provide an additional $425 million in military aid to Ukraine, a day after Washington said thousands of North Korean troops were ready to enter combat against Kyiv’s forces.The assistance “will provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: air defense interceptors; munitions for rocket …

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Minutes from the heart of Beirut, the Lebanese capital’s once vibrant southern suburbs lie largely deserted save for black-clad Hezbollah militants standing guard amid the rubble.Huge portraits of the movement’s slain leader Hassan Nasrallah and other commanders killed in the blistering air campaign Israel launched in late September flutter in the wind alongside the movement’s …

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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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The World Health Organization said Friday that the necessary second round of child polio vaccinations in northern Gaza would finally begin on Saturday, after Israeli bombing halted the drive.The announcement that the final phase of polio vaccination in the Gaza Strip can go ahead came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged …

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Indonesia’s top court on Friday rejected an appeal by an Indigenous tribe in its lawsuit against a palm oil firm, leaving it at risk of losing vast swathes of ancestral forest, rights groups said.The Awyu tribe, whose roughly 20,000 members rely on the land for their subsistence, had sought to freeze the operations of PT …

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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris hold dueling campaign rallies Friday in Wisconsin’s largest city Milwaukee, as both candidates make frantic last-ditch appeals to wavering voters with Election Day just around the corner.Republican Trump will return to the venue where he was crowned his party’s presidential nominee over the summer, his ear bandaged in bright white …

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Taiwan on Friday raced to remove 284 tonnes of oil from a Chinese carrier that ran aground off the island after losing power in rough seas as Typhoon Kong-rey neared.The Chinese-flagged Yu Zhou Qi Hang was transporting three cranes from Keelung, in northeast Taiwan, to China on Tuesday when it stalled in wild weather, Taiwanese …

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