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• The former prime minister says he won't enter the contest to become the next Conservative party leader, saying it, 'would simply not be the right thing to do'

  23-10-2022 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  UK former Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not enter the contest to become the next Conservative party leader and therefore the next prime minister, Britain's PA Media news agency reported Sunday.
  
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• Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico, potentially bringing 'life-threatening' conditions

  23-10-2022 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  Hurricane Roslyn, barreling towards Mexico as a major Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall Sunday morning, bringing dangerous storm surge and flooding to parts of the country, forecasters said.
  
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• Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and hand is 'incapacitated' following after stabbing attack

  23-10-2022 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  Author Salman Rushdie has lost his sight in one eye and one of his hands is "incapacitated" following a stabbing attack in August, according to an interview given by his agent to a Spanish newspaper.
  
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• Author Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and hand is "incapacitated" following August stabbing attack, agent says

  23-10-2022 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  Author Salman Rushdie has lost his sight in one eye and one of his hands is "incapacitated" following a stabbing attack in August, according to an interview given by his agent to a Spanish newspaper.
  
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• Gold's Gym owner and 5 others feared dead after plane crash off the coast of Costa Rica

  23-10-2022 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Gold's Gym owner Rainer Schaller, his family and two others are feared dead after a plane they were on apparently crashed off Costa Rica's Caribbean coast on Friday, officials said.
  
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• UK's Boris Johnson will not contest Conservative party leadership race

  23-10-2022 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  UK former Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not enter the contest to become the next Conservative party leader and therefore the next prime minister, Britain's PA Media news agency reported Sunday.
  
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• Rep. Liz Cheney on Trump testimony: He's 'not going to turn this into a circus'

  23-10-2022 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, co-chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, said the committee expects former President Donald Trump would testify behind closed doors if he complies with the committee's subpoena, and said the committee wants to avoid turning Trump's testimony into political theater.
  
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• See terrifying moment man is pushed onto subway tracks

  23-10-2022 21:55 via cnn.com
  
  A man was left injured after being randomly pushed onto the tracks in Brooklyn. New York City's subway system crimes have increased more than 41% over 2021, according to the NYPD.
  
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• The midterm elections may be set to make LGBTQ history

  23-10-2022 19:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dozens of LGBTQ candidates this election cycle have the chance to make political history.
  
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• Kari Lake suggests early voting be restricted in Arizona as she repeats election lies

  23-10-2022 17:53 via abcnews.go.com
  Kari Lake wouldn't explicitly commit on ABC's "This Week" to accepting the outcome of her election against Katie Hobbs and suggested early voting be restricted in Arizona
  
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• How China’s Xi Jinping flipped the script on the world during his 10 years in power

  23-10-2022 17:50 via abcnews.go.com
  Xi Jinping has firmly secured a norm-busting third term as leader of the Chinese Communist Party and cemented his power atop a more confident, and more defiant, China.
  
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• Bernie Sanders: 'Republicans blame Biden for inflation ... really?'

  23-10-2022 17:45 via cnn.com
  
  Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins CNN's Jake Tapper to discuss inflation and the 2022 midterm elections.
  
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• 2 dead after gunman opens fire at Dallas hospital: Officials

  23-10-2022 17:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Two hospital employees were fatally shot at Methodist Dallas Medical Center on Saturday, hospital officials said and the suspect was also shot and taken into custody.
  
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• Alex Jones seeks new trial after Sandy Hook verdict of almost $1 billion

  23-10-2022 17:06 via cnn.com
  
  Far-right talk show host Alex Jones is seeking a new trial after a Connecticut jury decided this month he should pay $965 million in compensatory damages to eight families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and one first responder.
  
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• People on the streets of Beijing on China's new leadership

  23-10-2022 16:47 via bbc.co.uk
  It's considered sensitive to talk about China's party leaders in public, but not impossible.
  
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• Kohli shines as Ashwin secures India victory in Pakistan cliffhanger

  23-10-2022 16:42 via cnn.com
  
  Virat Kohli struck an imperious half-century and Ravichandran Ashwin was cool at the death as India secured a four-wicket win on the final ball against arch-rivals Pakistan at the T20 World Cup on Sunday in front of a huge Melbourne Cricket Ground crowd.
  
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• Philippines: Student 'anti-cheating' exam hats go viral

  23-10-2022 16:28 via bbc.co.uk
  College students were asked to create headwear to help resist the urge to peek at others' papers.
  
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• Jake Tapper calls ad for GOP candidate truly deranged

  23-10-2022 16:20 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jake Tapper plays an ad from Jim Marchant, the Republican Secretary of State candidate in Nevada, and discusses how election lies have become mainstream in the party.
  
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• Voters in five US states have chance to wipe slavery off the books

  23-10-2022 15:45 via cnn.com
  
  When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception.
  
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• Voters in five US states have chance to wipe slavery and off the books

  23-10-2022 15:45 via cnn.com
  
  When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception.
  
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• Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico with 'life-threatening storm surge'

  23-10-2022 15:40 via cnn.com
  
  Hurricane Roslyn, barreling towards Mexico as a major Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall Sunday morning, bringing dangerous storm surge and flooding to parts of the country, forecasters said.
  
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• Pope prays for ‘unity and peace in Italy’ as Giorgia Meloni takes power

  23-10-2022 15:25 via theguardian.com
  Country’s first female prime minister leads the most rightwing government since the second world warPope Francis offered prayers for “unity and peace in Italy” as Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, took the helm of the country’s most rightwing government since the the second world war.Meloni, the leader of Brothers of Italy, a party with neofascist origins, met the outgoing prime minister, Mario Draghi, for a formal handover ceremony on Sunday. &ld
  
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• Frasers Group becomes fourth-largest stakeholder in Asos

  23-10-2022 15:25 via theguardian.com
  Mike Ashley has built up stake of more than 5% in online fashion retailerThe billionaire retail tycoon Mike Ashley has built up a stake of more than 5% in the online fashion retailer Asos.Ashley’s fashion and sportswear retailer Frasers Group informed Asos on Friday that it had become one of the company’s most signifiant shareholders. Continue reading...
  
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• Bail granted to suspect in Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira murder case

  23-10-2022 15:20 via theguardian.com
  Rubens Villar Coelho, suspected of ‘leading and financing’ armed group, to await trial under house arrestA man suspected of involvement in the killing of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira has been released from jail, according to news reports from the Amazon region.Rubens Villar Coelho, known by the alias “Colombia”, was set free on Friday, although news of his release only came 24 hours later. Continue reading...
  
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• Top reporters reveal what's happening inside Trump's orbit now

  23-10-2022 15:16 via cnn.com
  
  New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Axios reporter Jonathan Swan discuss Donald Trump's political future with CNN anchor Abby Phillip.
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: Scheduled power cuts introduced in Kyiv

  23-10-2022 15:06 via theguardian.com
  Blackouts see households in Kyiv divided into three groups ‘disconnected for a certain period of time’ following Russian strikes on key infrastructure What we know on day 242 of Russia’s invasionTwo civilians have been killed in Russian strikes on the eastern region of Donetsk, according to the local governor.Posting on Telegram on Sunday, Pavlo Kyrylenko said the deaths had occurred in the villages of Klishchiivka and Torskyi. Continue reading...
  
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• Suella Braverman backs Rishi Sunak for Tory leader as James Cleverly declares support for Boris Johnson – UK politics live

  23-10-2022 15:05 via theguardian.com
  Latest updates: follow all the developments as speculation continues as to whether Boris Johnson has enough backers to get on the ballotHeaton-Harris says he doesn’t have any details about the talks between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson last night.“I was really pleased that they had talks, but I don’t know what transpired from them. I will be speaking to Boris shortly. It’s really important that the party comes together and unifies and shows we are serious about governing
  
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• Rishi Sunak: I am standing to be British prime minister

  23-10-2022 14:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Britain's former finance minister Rishi Sunak confirmed on Sunday he was standing to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. "The United Kingdom is a great country but we face a profound economic crisis," he said on Twitter. "That's why I am standing to be leader of the Conservative Party and your next prime minister." Sunak was defeated by Truss in the race to replace Boris Johnson in September after losing an election held by members of the Conservative party across the country. BORIS JOHNSON 'BO
  
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• An astonishing fall from grace

  23-10-2022 14:39 via cnn.com
  
  In 1970, a protester in London, angered by the cancellation of a cricket tour, threw an egg at UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the leader of the Labour Party. His Conservative Party rival, Edward Heath responded, "This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister."
  
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• CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tests positive for COVID-19

  23-10-2022 14:37 via abcnews.go.com
  CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday night. She is self-isolating and will attend her meetings remotely.
  
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• Kim Jong Un congratulates Xi Jinping on third term as head of Chinese Communist Party, vows ‘beautiful future’

  23-10-2022 14:34 via foxnews.com
  
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping on his appointment to a third term in office Sunday, saying he looks forward to a "beautiful future" for the two countries. Xi secured his unprecedented third 5-year term at the end of the 20th Chinese Communist Party congress on Saturday, solidifying him as China's supreme leader. China and North Korea have maintained a close alliance for decades, with the pair being central adversaries for the U.S. in both the Korean pe
  
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• Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico as a major Category 3 storm

  23-10-2022 14:19 via cnn.com
  
  Hurricane Roslyn, barreling towards Mexico as a major Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall Sunday morning, bringing dangerous storm surge and flooding to parts of the country, forecasters said.
  
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• Ukraine war: The cost of occupation in Kherson region

  23-10-2022 14:09 via bbc.co.uk
  As Ukraine retakes territory, villagers tell the BBC about their precarious life under Russian rule.
  
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• Wave of attacks dealt another blow to Ukraine's vulnerable power grid

  23-10-2022 14:08 via cnn.com
  
  • Kherson resident describes a ghost town of exhausted people
  • Teacher tortured by Russians and held before returning to Ukraine in prisoner swap
  
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• Russia's military is pulling troops back from the Dnipro River in the region's south, Ukrainian official says, while the Kremlin claims it hasn't lost ground

  23-10-2022 14:08 via cnn.com
  
  • Kherson resident describes a ghost town of exhausted people
  • Teacher tortured by Russians and held before returning to Ukraine in prisoner swap
  
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• On GPS: Another term for Netanyahu?

  23-10-2022 14:07 via cnn.com
  Israel's longest-serving leader, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tells Fareed about his bid for another term in power ahead of the country's fifth election in four years.
  
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• Peak power: hydrogen to be injected into UK station for first time

  23-10-2022 14:06 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Joint venture with Centrica is aimed ultimately at reducing carbon intensity at the siteHydrogen will be injected into an emergency gas-fired power station for the first time in a pilot backed by the owner of British Gas.Centrica has invested in an industry joint venture which will trial using hydrogen at an existing “peaking plant” at its Brigg station in Lincolnshire, the Guardian can reveal. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump raid was Biden 'metastasizing' Nixon-Obama tact of targeting political enemies: Ted Cruz

  23-10-2022 14:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The Nixon administration compiled a political "enemies list," while the Obama administration oversaw the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane project against former President Donald Trump, but President Biden "metastasized" that tact with his Justice Department's raid on Mar-a-Lago, said Sen. Ted Cruz. In an interview airing Sunday on "Life, Liberty & Levin," Cruz told host Mark Levin that Biden brought the tactic of targeting political enemies with the power of the federal government to an unprecedent
  
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• DeSantis, Biden hurricane recovery actions show how 2024 race might shape up

  23-10-2022 14:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The lion’s share of the national attention on the meeting between President Joe Biden and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speculated on the theoretical 2024 presidential match-up. But for many in the Sunshine State, the duo standing together represented another stark contrast, and it had nothing to do with presidential politics, but rather effectiveness of government.  DeSantis’ leadership since Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 storm whose strength and destruction rivaled predecessors
  
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• Missing Georgia teen's family says human remains discovered may be 17-year-old

  23-10-2022 13:53 via foxnews.com
  
  The family of a missing Georgia teen says that the 17-year-old’s remains have likely been found nearly a month after he disappeared, according to a local report. Yaron Kathuri was last seen around 8 a.m. on Sept. 28 in Douglasville wearing a white NASA hoodie and jeans, the Douglasville Police Department said earlier this month. On Saturday, police said human remains were discovered at Arbor Station and Douglas Boulevard, one of Yaron’s last known locations.  While detectives ha
  
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• Maryland couple says strangers have moved into the home they just bought and refuse to leave

  23-10-2022 13:39 via foxnews.com
  
  Instead of settling into their new home, a Maryland couple is trying to figure out who moved in before they did. According to WUSA9, a couple in Prince George's County signed a contract with a bank to buy a vacant foreclosed home on Thursday. When they left that meeting and drove by the property, the couple reportedly saw a U-Haul in the driveway and people moving in. The next day the people were still at the house and refusing to leave. Melea King, the couple's realtor, told the D.C. news outle
  
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• Keir Starmer hits out at ‘ridiculous, chaotic circus’ of Tory contest

  23-10-2022 13:26 via theguardian.com
  Country ‘fed up’ with leadership turmoil, says Starmer as he pitches Labour as party of ‘sound money’Tory leadership contest – latest updatesKeir Starmer has hit out at the “ridiculous, chaotic circus” of the Conservative leadership contest, as he pitched Labour in contrast as the party of sound money.The Labour leader, who is pushing for a general election, said the Tory party was failing Britain with its contest while the country was struggling to cope
  
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• China’s leader Xi Jinping secures third term and stacks inner circle with loyalists

  23-10-2022 13:23 via theguardian.com
  Xi unveiled as general secretary of ruling Communist Party, tilting China back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among eliteXi Jinping confirmed as China’s leader – live
  Xi Jinping has been confirmed as leader of China for a precedent-breaking third term, after a week-long political meeting eliminated key rivals and strengthened his political power.The 20th Party Congress, the most important meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist party five-year political cycle, sa
  
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• The American teenage ice skating phenomenon making history

  23-10-2022 13:16 via cnn.com
  
  American teenager Ilia Malinin landed the second ever quadruple axel in competition on Saturday without so much as a wobble.
  
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• UK weather: heavy rain across England and Wales brings flood threat

  23-10-2022 13:14 via theguardian.com
  Met Office warns of possible flooding, damage to property and hazardous driving conditionsHeavy rain and thunderstorms across much of England and parts of Wales could bring flooding, damage to buildings and hazardous driving conditions, the Met Office has warned.UK yellow warnings have been issued on Sunday for an area stretching from Whitby in North Yorkshire and taking in eastern England, most of the Midlands, southern England from Kent to Devon and south-east Wales. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Nobody forced us’: the Greek builder who saved 80 Afghans from the sea

  23-10-2022 13:12 via theguardian.com
  On Monday, 66-year-old is to be honoured in Athens for his actions on night both tragic and awe-inspiringMichalis Protopsaltis does not see himself as a hero. When the news of the shipwreck came through, he did, he says, what any man in his position would do. The construction company owner dispatched a crane to the Kythira clifftop and, one by one, began saving the 80 Afghan immigrants scrambling for dear life in the waters below.Three hours elapsed before the last refugee – originally bou
  
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• Wendy Davis: The dangerously hypocritical logic behind America's next big abortion battle

  23-10-2022 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  America's next abortion law fight will be over fetal personhood. Texas state senator Wendy Davis, who's abortion filibuster inspired a nation, is ready.
  
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• Sharp fall in China’s global standing as poll shows backing for Taiwan defence

  23-10-2022 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Survey finds pro-China sentiment has collapsed in many nations while positive opinion of US has reboundedChina’s reputation has deteriorated rapidly over the last four years, particularly in the west, and a large share of global opinion would back some form of international help for Taiwan if Beijing tries to take the island by force, according to a survey.It comes as Xi Jinping warned of “dangerous storms” on the horizon as he was confirmed on Sunday as Chinese leader for a pr
  
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• GOP tsunami is sweeping away Democrat hopes for midterm elections

  23-10-2022 13:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The Republican tsunami seems to be moving into every part of the country – from Oregon and Washington State to Rhode Island.  This is what happens when big wave elections occur. They permeate everywhere. Races that seem hopeless suddenly become hopeful. Races that seem hopeful suddenly become clearly winnable.  I watched Democrat tsunamis in 1958, 1974, and 2006. I also saw Republican tsunamis in 1980, 1994, and 2010.  POLITICAL DIVIDE FUELED BY ‘GRIEVANCE’ OF &l
  
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• Cuba’s top ballerina takes reins amid crumbling theatres and talent exodus

  23-10-2022 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Viengsay Valdés, 44, has the tough task of renewing the Cuban National Ballet’s reputation as country finds itself in crisisCuba’s favourite ballerina, Viengsay Valdés, will run on to the stage of the island’s National Theatre on 2 November, fairly certain it won’t collapse beneath her.Reprising the role of Giselle she first performed 25 years ago, she can’t use Havana’s more glamorous auditorium, the rococo Gran Teatro de la Habana Alicia Alonso
  
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