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• Trump asks team to trim back transition efforts, focus on race: sources

  25-10-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trailing in opinion polls, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has asked his campaign to cut back on work identifying candidates for key jobs in his would-be administration and focus instead on bolstering his chances on Election Day, according to two people familiar with the campaign's inner workings. After months of bitter battling, Trump's Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, has a commanding lead in the race to win the Electoral College and claim t
  
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• Maduro, opponents trade 'coup' charges in Venezuela crisis

  25-10-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the opposition-majority legislature Tuesday of staging a "parliamentary coup" after lawmakers voted to put him on trial amid a tense political and economic crisis. Accused by the legislature of "abandoning his post" and "criminal and political responsibility" for Venezuela's descent into crisis, Maduro fired back by calling a meeting of his National Defense Council on Wednesday -- the same day the opposition plans massive anti-government protests. Lawm
  
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• Trump, Clinton blitz battleground Florida

  25-10-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House rivals Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump staged dueling rallies in the crucial battleground of Florida on Tuesday, blitzing the diverse state as the clock ticks down on the tumultuous presidential race. With two weeks to go before the November 8 election, polls showed Democrat Clinton -- who is vying to become America's first female president -- dominating nationally and looking for a resounding mandate to govern the bitterly divided country. Early voting began in Florida on Monday, a
  
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• Will mushroom clouds turn Ohio voters away from Donald Trump?

  25-10-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Bill Bradley-backed super PAC is spending more than $820,000 on atomic bomb-themed ads.
  
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• The Possible Media Ambitions Behind the Trump Campaign's New Live Show

  25-10-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The new nightly Facebook Live show that Trump advisers have launched ahead of the final two weeks of the campaign may signal a foray into a formal media presence, but the transition from political campaign to cable news show — or even channel — has been tried before, without great success. For his part, Trump has denied any post-election aspirations of becoming a media mogul. Speculation about the ultimate goal of the show — and whether it could be the first iteration of some f
  
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• Wisconsin clerk feared early voting site helping Democrats

  25-10-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The city clerk in Green Bay refused to set up an early voting site on a college campus in part because she feared the site would help Democrats, according to emails obtained by a liberal advocacy group.
  
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• Trump, GOP look to 'Obamacare' report as comeback lifeline

  25-10-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DORAL, Florida (AP) — Suddenly armed with fresh political ammunition, Donald Trump and anxious Republicans across the nation seized on spiking health care costs Tuesday in a final-days effort to spark election momentum.
  
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• The Latest: In FL, Trump pledges to boost space program

  25-10-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• German 'terror financing' raids target Chechens

  25-10-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police raided apartments across Germany Tuesday in a probe against 14 Chechen asylum seekers over suspected financing of terrorist groups and links to the Islamic State group. The raids, involving 400 police officers, were part of an investigation which began last year into a 28-year-old Russian of Chechen origin who is suspected of "preparing an act of violence against the state". Police said no arrests were made Tuesday but that 10 other men and three women -- all Chechens aged between 21 and
  
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• As Trump falters, more Republicans say they'll block Clinton

  25-10-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new fundraising email from House Speaker Paul Ryan's political operation, over former Speaker Newt Gingrich's signature, seeks money for Republican congressional candidates by calling the appeal "our very last chance to stop Pelosi and Hillary."
  
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• Colin Powell is voting for Clinton: aide

  25-10-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican ex-secretary of state Colin Powell announced Tuesday he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November 8 presidential election. The announcement by Powell, a retired four-star US Army general who served in George W. Bush's administration, is the latest from a long line of Republican former and current officials and politicians who have announced they are not voting for their party's nominee Donald Trump. "General Powell said at a meeting of the Long Island Association that he
  
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• Clinton warns supporters against complacency in U.S. election

  25-10-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Luciana Lopez COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned her supporters on Tuesday against complacency as opinion polls show her holding a clear lead over Republican rival Donald Trump with exactly two weeks left until the Nov. 8 election. Clinton received a further boost when Colin Powell, who served as Republican President George W. Bush's secretary of state, said he would vote for her, according to media reports. Clinton told a rally in Florida
  
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• Calais migrant camp shows signs of hasty departures

  25-10-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In one of the tents due to be demolished in the windswept Calais "Jungle" camp in northern France, the migrants who once lived there had left behind several loaves of bread and a milk carton. All that remained of this section of the camp -- which once housed hundreds of migrants hoping to reach Britain -- was a pile of mattresses, blankets, clothes, pots, plastic bags and suitcases, dumped by demolition workers on top of the debris from the wrecked tents and huts.
  
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• Trump vows to scrap Obamacare as costs to jump 25 percent

  25-10-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to overturn President Barack Obama's signature health insurance program after the government announced Americans will see costs jump an average of 25 percent next year. "Obamacare has to be repealed and replaced and it has to be replaced with something much less expensive for the people, otherwise this country is in even bigger trouble than everybody thought," the Republican presidential candidate said at his golf course in Doral, Florida. The Department of Health and
  
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• Italy PM threatens EU budget veto over migrants

  25-10-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday threatened to veto the EU's budget over a lack of solidarity from European neighbours as it struggles with a huge influx of migrants. "We give 20 billion (euros) to Europe so that we can get back 12 -- and if Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia want to preach at us about immigrants, allow Italy to say that the system is no longer working," Renzi told RAI 1 television. Renzi railed against central European countries that have closed off their bo
  
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• Turkey's Diyarbakir mayors arrested in 'terror' probe

  25-10-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The two co-mayors of Diyarbakir, the biggest Kurdish-majority city in southeast Turkey, have been arrested as part of a "terrorism" enquiry, security officials said Tuesday. There was a heavy police presence around the town hall following the arrests of Gultan Kisanak and Firat Anli, who together lead a city that has been rocked by clashes between security forces and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Dozens of police were surrounding the town hall with light armoured vehicl
  
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• Venezuela lawmakers vote to put Maduro on trial

  25-10-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's opposition-majority legislature voted Tuesday to open a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro, who is resisting efforts to remove him from power in a tense political and economic crisis. Lawmakers summoned Maduro to appear before the National Assembly next Tuesday to answer to charges of "abandoning his post" and "criminal and political responsibility" for what they have declared an attack on democracy. It was the latest salvo from an opposition furious over the authoritie
  
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• Texas elections official says ‘human error’ likely behind ballot confusion

  25-10-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Early voting has started in many states, and some conservative websites are already trafficking in conspiracy theories that the election is being decided unfairly.
  
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• Exclusive: Trump says Clinton policy on Syria would lead to World War Three

  25-10-2016 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland DORAL, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Democrat Hillary Clinton's plan for Syria would "lead to World War Three," because of the potential for conflict with military forces from nuclear-armed Russia. In an interview focused largely on foreign policy, Trump said defeating Islamic State is a higher priority than persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, playing down a long-held goal of U.S. policy.
  
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• France starts tearing down 'Jungle' migrant camp

  25-10-2016 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French workers escorted by riot police on Tuesday began tearing down shacks and tents in the Calais "Jungle" vacated by migrants who have been bussed to shelters around the country. The demolition work began on the second day of a massive operation to clear the squalid camp in northern France, where an estimated 6,000-8,000 migrants, mostly Afghans, Sudanese and Eritreans, have been living. Mattresses, blankets, clothes, pots and suitcases left behind by the migrants were also carted away.
  
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• The Latest: Clinton raps Trump on accepting election results

  25-10-2016 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Q&A: New sign-up season; new woes for Obama health law

  25-10-2016 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is leaving the White House in a few months, but the troubles of his signature health care law continue to make headlines. With premiums rising by double digits and many consumers scrambling to replace coverage because their insurer bailed out, the 2017 sign-up season that starts Nov. 1 looks challenging.
  
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• Venezuela lawmakers vote for political trial of president

  25-10-2016 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's opposition-majority legislature voted on Tuesday to open a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro, who is resisting efforts to remove him from power in a volatile political crisis. A majority of lawmakers in the National Assembly voted in favor of a motion to launch a "political and criminal trial" against Maduro after he blocked their drive for a referendum on removing him. The Supreme Court -- which the opposition claims Maduro controls -- has ruled the National Assembly'
  
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• Turkey police torture detainees under post-coup emergency: HRW

  25-10-2016 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said Turkey's state of emergency amounted to giving "a blank cheque" for police to torture, abuse or threaten people detained after the failed coup. The US-based watchdog cited 13 cases of alleged abuse, including torture, sleep deprivation, severe beatings, sexual abuse and rape threats among people arrested after the July 15 attempted putsch. "By removing safeguards against torture, the Turkish government effectively wrote a blank cheque to law enforcement agencie
  
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• US official: Russia might shoot down US aircraft in Syria

  25-10-2016 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — National Intelligence director James Clapper says he wouldn't put it past Russia to "to shoot down an American aircraft" if a no-fly zone is imposed over Syria.
  
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• Down Ticket #23: Can Democrats really win back the House? Watch these three races to find out

  25-10-2016 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Down Ticket is Yahoo News’ complete guide to the most fascinating House, Senate and governors’ races of 2016. Coming to you every Tuesday and Thursday until Nov. 8. What you need to know today.
  
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• Mexican rock elders Mana pack New York with election message

  25-10-2016 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mana, the Mexican rock veterans turned staunch defenders of the US Latino community, packed Madison Square Garden with a plea to the audience -- head to the polls to fight Donald Trump. New York's iconic arena was filled Monday night with mostly Latino fans for a generous concert of more than three hours of Mana's hits. The rockers, who have won four Grammys and eight Latin Grammys, came to New York as part of a US-wide "Latino Power Tour" that began last month in San Diego.
  
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• Venezuela opposition seeks unity in anti-Maduro push

  25-10-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's divided opposition sought unity Tuesday in its bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro, after several top opponents rejected a proposal by Pope Francis for talks as playing into the leftist leader's hands. A Vatican-backed plan for talks on the country's crushing political and economic crisis has laid bare the divisions in the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), a shaky coalition united mainly by shared hatred of Maduro. After the pope's envoy for the crisis announced Monday t
  
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• Jay Z to rally voters for Clinton

  25-10-2016 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rap mogul Jay Z will return to the stage to rally voters for Hillary Clinton in the key swing state of Ohio, her campaign said Tuesday. The Democratic presidential candidate's website invited fans to enter a lottery for a ticket to Jay Z's free show, which will take place on November 4 in Cleveland. The rapper and husband of Beyonce also performed in Ohio to support President Barack Obama during the 2012 election when he tinkered with his hit "99 Problems" to throw in a reference to Republican r
  
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• Islamist militants kill 61 in Pakistan police attack

  25-10-2016 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pakistan on Tuesday mourned the killing of at least 61 people in a brutal gun and suicide bomb assault on a police academy, the deadliest attack on a security installation in the country's history. An emailed claim from the Pakistani Taliban, which shares close operational ties with LeJ, backed that assertion.
  
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• Plunge in French joblessness gives Hollande rare boost

  25-10-2016 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a rare piece of good news seized on by embattled President Francois Hollande, France recorded its sharpest drop in unemployment for 20 years in September, the labour ministry said Tuesday. It said 66,300 fewer people were looking for work last month, bringing the jobless total to 3.49 million in mainland France and more than erasing August's increase in job seekers of over 50,000. Hollande, who has said he will not stand for re-election in April if he has not made a "credible" dent in unemplo
  
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• Belgian region warns pressure will 'stop' EU-Canada trade talks

  25-10-2016 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new round of delicate negotiations took place in Brussels on Tuesday in a bid to salvage an EU-Canada trade deal as a holdout Belgian region warned it would stop the talks if it faced more pressure to sign up. A range of consultations involving Belgian and European Union officials were aimed at winning over Wallonia, which has prevented Belgium from supporting the agreement and effectively blocked a deal that must be endorsed by all 28 EU nations. "I want to be clear on the fact that we have a
  
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• First American killed in Mosul assault was in navy

  25-10-2016 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first American killed during Iraq's offensive to retake Mosul was a member of the navy hit by a bomb blast near the city, the US-led anti-jihadist coalition said Tuesday. Chief Petty Officer Jason Finan was the fourth member of the US military to be killed in Iraq by the Islamic State jihadist group, which overran large parts of the country, including Mosul, in June 2014. Finan died on Thursday "from wounds sustained during an improvised explosive device blast near Bashiqa," the coalition sa
  
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• Spain's king asks acting PM Rajoy to form government

  25-10-2016 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spain's king on Tuesday tasked Mariano Rajoy with forming a new government, taking the acting conservative prime minister a step closer to power again after a 10-month political deadlock. "I accepted the task," Rajoy told reporters, saying he would now submit himself to a parliamentary vote of confidence which he is almost certain to win after the Socialists opted to abstain -- giving him enough traction to get through. This means Spain should finally get a government next week, capping a roller
  
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• Teachers use election to discuss weighty issues, worries

  25-10-2016 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Many teachers around the country are embracing the often nasty presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as a real-world teaching tool.
  
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• Slovakia bans far-right train patrols targeting Roma

  25-10-2016 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Slovak parliament on Tuesday outlawed vigilante train patrols by a far-right party that had targeted the EU member's large Roma minority. Members of the far-right opposition People's Party Our Slovakia (L'SNS) began patrolling Slovak trains in April after a 16-year-old boy attacked a 21-year-old woman and stole her wallet. "No one can replace police in this country and no one should act like it either," Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska said Tuesday, quoted by the local TASR news agency.
  
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• Bosnian Serbs criticised for awarding war criminals

  25-10-2016 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Council of Europe on Tuesday criticised authorities of Bosnian Serb-run entity Republika Srpska (RS) over a decision to honour three convicted war criminals, including wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic. "The decision... represents a serious blow to reconciliation efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is an insult to the numerous victims of those crimes who remain traumatised by the violent past," the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks said in a statement.
  
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• Ryan urges Pentagon to suspend collection of Guard bonuses

  25-10-2016 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday called for the Pentagon to immediately suspend efforts to recover enlistment bonuses paid to thousands of soldiers in California who signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  
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• Court denies request for probe of Snyder's Flint legal bills

  25-10-2016 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan court has rejected a request for a one-judge grand jury investigation of Gov. Rick Snyder's decision to use at least $2 million in state funds for his legal representation related to criminal probes of Flint's water crisis.
  
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• Obama to head to Greece, Germany, Peru in mid-November: W. House

  25-10-2016 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Barack Obama will head to Greece, Germany and Peru next month for what could be his final trip abroad before leaving the White House in January, his office said Tuesday. The November 14-21 trip -- which will fall between the November 8 election to choose his successor and Inauguration Day on January 20 -- will aim to show Obama's engagement with both his transatlantic and Asia-Pacific partners. Obama will arrive in Greece on November 15 for talks focused on the country's efforts to
  
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• US official: China's purchase of NKorean coal 'unacceptable'

  25-10-2016 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior U.S. official says China's use of a loophole in U.N. sanctions to purchase huge amounts of North Korean coal is "unacceptable."
  
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• APNewsbreak: Voter group says dead people likely registered

  25-10-2016 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A data analysis firm hired by a voter registration group says its examination of Indiana's voter database has found thousands of people over the age of 110 who are likely deceased and still registered to vote.
  
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• Azerbaijan sentences youth activist to 10 years in prison

  25-10-2016 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Azerbaijan on Tuesday sentenced a pro-democracy activist to 10 years in prison as the ex-Soviet state faces growing criticism over its crackdown on dissent. A Baku court found Giyas Ibrahimov, a 21-year-old activist who belongs to the NIDA pro-democracy youth group, guilty of drug trafficking. Human rights activists dismissed the charges as politically motivated, his lawyer Elchin Sadykhov told AFP.
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. House to vote on Iran Sanctions Act renewal as soon as November

  25-10-2016 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives plan a vote as soon as mid-November on a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act, congressional aides told Reuters on Tuesday. The act, which expires on Dec. 31, is one of the major pieces of unfinished business facing lawmakers when they return to Washington after the Nov. 8 election. Aides said the reauthorization of a "clean" bill, unchanged from the current legislation, was likely to pass the House, but its fate in the Sen
  
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• Senate Democrats aim to block LGBT measure from defense bill

  25-10-2016 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are opposing a provision in the annual defense policy bill that they say would undercut protections against workplace discrimination based on sexual or gender orientation.
  
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• Hungary summons Russian envoy over 'degrading' uprising remarks

  25-10-2016 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Budapest summoned Moscow's ambassador Tuesday after Russian state TV made what Hungary called "degrading" remarks about its 1956 uprising against Soviet communist rule. "We will make very clear that we won't tolerate anyone making degrading remarks regarding the 1956 uprising and its heroes," the foreign affairs ministry told Hungarian news agency MTI. Russian state TV had described the armed rebellion as "riots", during which "thousands of former Nazis were liberated from prison", as Hungary co
  
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• Politics and social media: Americans see overload

  25-10-2016 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The political debate on Facebook and Twitter is getting too mean for many Americans. While social networks have become a key part of the political landscape in recent years, many users are getting fed up with the tone of the debate, according to a survey released Tuesday. The Pew Research Center survey found 37 percent of social media users are "worn out" by the amount of political discussion they encounter.
  
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• 'Groundwork' being laid for 'isolation' of Raqa: US

  25-10-2016 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US-led coalition is "laying the groundwork" for the "isolation" of Raqa, the Islamic State group stronghold in Syria, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday. "We have already begun laying the groundwork for our partners to commence the isolation of Raqa," Carter said after meeting coalition defence ministers in Paris to discuss the aftermath of the planned capture of Mosul from IS in Iraq. Carter was among a dozen ministers from coalition members attending the talks, which come a we
  
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