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AmericasEl Salvador will send more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to rescue four military aviation technicians missing since a gang ambush near Port-au-Prince on 18 October.
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AmericasMore than 100 federal subpoenas have demanded voter records in at least a dozen states ahead of the US midterms, Reuters reports, in a campaign the White House defends as election enforcement and critics call a distraction.
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AmericasThe UN General Assembly has voted for a 34th time to call for an end to the US embargo on Cuba, with 130 nations reported in favour, 25 abstaining and 17 against, despite an intense US pressure campaign.
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AmericasDonald Trump campaigned in Texas beside a tanker carrying Venezuelan crude, one week before midterm elections, as he backed Ken Paxton in a close Senate race.
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AmericasThe US military said it struck a go-fast vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Tuesday, 27 October, killing five people, in the latest attack in its campaign against boats it accuses of smuggling drugs.
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AmericasBrazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has left Brazil for the United States days after losing the presidential runoff, sources told Reuters and CNN, after a court ordered him to hand over his passports.
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AmericasA US federal appeals court has closely questioned the Trump administration's emergency bid to set aside around 20,000 California mail ballots, holding a rare Sunday hearing nine days before the midterm elections.
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AmericasLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won Brazil's presidential runoff, defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro to secure a historic fourth term as president. Lula wins Brazil runoff with 51.8% of the vote against 48.2% for Bolsonaro, electoral authorities said with more than 99% of votes counted. Brazil's electoral authority declared Lula the winner on Sunday after
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AmericasVenezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela after more than 10 months abroad, announcing her arrival on social media on Sunday and appearing before supporters in the western state of Lara. “I’m here. With you all,” Machado wrote on X on Sunday morning, in a message that
Read full storyAmericasBritish Columbia’s Conservative Party has won a majority government for the first time in nearly a century, ending nine years of rule by the New Democratic Party (NDP) after a snap election on Saturday. Provisional results showed the Conservatives winning 64 of the 93 seats in the provincial legislature, with the NDP taking 27 and
Read full storyAmericasEleven people, including six children, were shot near Florida A&M University's Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida, on Saturday night after the university's homecoming football game, police said. A 12th person was injured while fleeing the scene, bringing the total number of injured to 12. FAKTA 11 people suffered gunshot wounds; a 12th person was
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AmericasUS President Donald Trump has signed an order removing 50% tariffs on some Canadian agricultural and forestry products, with the changes taking effect on October 30, just four days before the November 3 midterm elections. At the same time, the order adds a separate set of Canadian products to the 50% tariff list, partly offsetting
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