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• Tupac Shakur's life in pictures

  29-09-2023 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some of the most famous images of the legendary US rapper who was shot dead in 1996.
  
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• After Asian American woman attacked on train, she thanks other women for helping her

  29-09-2023 23:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  A woman who was attacked in the Boston subway is speaking out after a group of teens were recorded harassing her with racist language and attempting to block her from leaving the train.
  
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• GOP senators say they won't stop Democrats from replacing Feinstein on Judiciary Committee

  29-09-2023 23:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Top Republican senators said Friday they won’t try to prevent Democrats from replacing the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.
  
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• Prostate cancer trial: Radiotherapy doses can be cut safely

  29-09-2023 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts say the findings could lead to "enormous change" in the way the treatment is delivered.
  
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• Acting Spanish PM gets second chance at power as conservatives struggle to set up new government

  29-09-2023 22:59 via foxnews.com
  
  Spain’s acting center-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez lost July’s national election but now has a shot at returning to power after the leader of the country’s conservatives failed for a second time Friday to get parliament’s support for a new government. In a vote in the Congress of Deputies in Madrid, the Spanish parliament’s lower chamber, Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo collected 172 lawmakers’ votes in his favor to 1
  
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• Sycamore Gap: 'We are devastated - it's so sad to see the tree gone'

  29-09-2023 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Members of the public have been sharing memories of the 300-year-old tree in Northumberland, after it was cut down this week.
  
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• 8 top-rated diaper bags that make life easy

  29-09-2023 22:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Shop diaper bags with insulated pockets, changing mats and USB charging ports from brands like Beis, Dagne Dover and more.
  
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• Tupac Shakur: Who was the rapper?

  29-09-2023 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The rapper was aged 25 when he died after being shot four times in Las Vegas in September 1996.
  
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• Several institutions awarded national recognition for boosting Latino college completion

  29-09-2023 22:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fourteen colleges and universities earned a national distinction, the 2023 Seal of Excelencia for programs that help enroll, retain and graduate Latino students.
  
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• Obituary: Dianne Feinstein, trailblazing senator who defied CIA and White House

  29-09-2023 22:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Senate's longest-serving woman broke gender barriers, but her age was an issue late in her career.
  
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• Eswatini, one of the world's last monarchies, holds largely ceremonial elections

  29-09-2023 21:48 via foxnews.com
  
  The small southern African nation of Eswatini held elections Friday to decide part of the makeup of its Parliament, even as its extremely wealthy king retains absolute power, political parties are banned and elected representatives can merely advise a monarch whose family has reigned supreme for 55 years. Eswatini, wedged between South Africa and Mozambique, is the last absolute monarchy in Africa and one of the few remaining in the world. King Mswati III, 55, has been the monarch since 1986, wh
  
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• Nighttime shooting attack at Mexican hospital leaves 4 dead, including doctor

  29-09-2023 21:27 via foxnews.com
  
  A nighttime shooting attack on a hospital in northern Mexico has left four people dead, including a doctor, authorities said Friday. The attack happened near midnight Thursday in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan. The state is home to the drug cartel of the same name. State police said at least three gunmen tried to storm into the hospital, but two were killed in a gunbattle with security personnel. The doctor was apparently caught in the crossfire. A third assailant was wounded, but scuffle
  
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• The 6 best sales to shop right now

  29-09-2023 21:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Save on early holiday shopping with this week’s sales from Calpak, Nike and more
  
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• Taliban government to cease operations at Afghan Embassy in India's capital

  29-09-2023 21:25 via foxnews.com
  
  India’s External Affairs Ministry is examining a letter from the Afghan Embassy that says it plans to cease all operations in the Indian capital by Saturday, an official said Friday. India has not recognized the Taliban government which seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021. It evacuated its own staff from Kabul ahead of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago and no longer has a diplomatic presence there. To date, the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi has been run by staff appoi
  
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• Liverpool-area bus wreck kills driver, 14-year-old girl

  29-09-2023 21:23 via foxnews.com
  
  A bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren overturned on a highway near the English city of Liverpool on Friday, killing the driver and a 14-year-old girl, police said. HUNDREDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF LONG ISLAND BAND DIRECTOR KILLED IN BUS CRASH The bus was transporting students from Calday Grange Grammar School and West Kirby Grammar School on the Wirral Peninsula, across the River Mersey from Liverpool. Traffic on the M53 highway was blocked as police and other emergency services responded to the inc
  
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• The bloody 'day of infamy' that forged Sen. Dianne Feinstein's political career

  29-09-2023 20:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dianne Feinstein was president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors — a job she didn't plan on seeking re-election to — on the November day in 1978 that shocked the city and changed her life.
  
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• As Paris Olympics approach, French authorities launch efforts to eradicate bedbugs

  29-09-2023 20:45 via foxnews.com
  
  With the Paris Olympics less than a year away, French authorities want to make sure the bedbugs don't bite during the games and have started a drive to exterminate the pests. Social media users have been publishing footage of the insects crawling around in high-speed trains and the Paris metro, alongside a rash of online articles about bedbugs in cinemas and even Charles de Gaulle airport. The reports have reached the highest levels of government. "The state urgently needs to put an action plan
  
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• Security forces replace militants in Palestinian refugee camp as cease-fire holds

  29-09-2023 19:50 via foxnews.com
  
  A Palestinian security force deployed Friday in a school complex in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country’s south, replacing gunmen who had occupied it since fighting broke out in late July leaving more than 30 people dead. The deployment raises hopes that a nearly two-week cease-fire in the Ein el-Hilweh camp, near the southern port city of Sidon, will hold. On Sept. 14, members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group and two Islamic militant factions
  
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• US-backed Syrian Kurds report capture of key Islamic State figure

  29-09-2023 19:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Syrian Kurdish fighters and American forces have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group, a militant described as one of its "key facilitators," the force said Friday. Mahmdouh Ibrahim al-Haji, also known as Abu Youssef, was taken into custody on Thursday in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, according to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, just days after the U.S. military said it had captured another IS operator in northern Syria. ISRAELI TANKS STRIKE SYRIAN STRUCTURES IN DEM
  
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• Twin suicide attacks underline the depth of Pakistan’s crisis

  29-09-2023 19:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Escalating violence comes at a time when the economy is in tatters and the caretaker government powerlessThe scenes of horror pictured on Friday have become all too familiar in Pakistan. This time it was a twin attack. A procession to mark the birthday of the prophet Muhammad and a police station were both targeted by suicide bombers, killing almost 60 people and injuring hundreds more.No one has yet claimed responsibility, but suspicion among officials and analysts was directed towards Islamic
  
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• Mexican president criticizes US aid to Ukraine and sanctions on Latin American nations in high-level meeting

  29-09-2023 19:39 via foxnews.com
  
  Mexico’s president on Friday slammed U.S. aid for Ukraine and economic sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba and other nations as the first of two high-level U.S.-Mexico meetings got underway in Washington. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a broad criticism of U.S. foreign policy, saying U.S. economic sanctions were forcing people to emigrate from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. The harsh comments came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina and T
  
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• Honk Kong police arrest an additional 4 linked to $200M JPEX cryptocurrency scam

  29-09-2023 19:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Police in Hong Kong and Macao said Friday they arrested four more people linked to the cryptocurrency platform JPEX, which is suspected to have defrauded more than 2,400 people of almost $200 million. The arrests bring the total number of people detained so far in the case to 18. Police have received 2,417 reports involving more than $191.6 million in alleged losses on the platform. Hong Kong police said in a news conference Friday they had arrested two men, one of whom had been trying to destro
  
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• Spanish court rejects appeal to reopen John Mcafee's death investigation

  29-09-2023 19:24 via foxnews.com
  
  A Spanish court has turned down an appeal to reopen the investigation into the 2021 death of British-American tycoon John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, who was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona as he awaited extradition to America. Authorities had determined that the 75-year-old killed himself and there was nothing to suggest otherwise, the court in Barcelona said Friday. The decision on the appeal was final. McAfee’s family had asked for the case, closed with
  
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• Norway to bar Russian-registered cars in line with EU sanctions

  29-09-2023 19:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Norway announced Friday that it will start barring Russian-registered passenger cars from entering the Scandinavian country starting next week, mirroring sanctions imposed by the European Union against Moscow over its war on Ukraine. Norway, which is a member of NATO but not of the EU, has a 123-mile-long border in the Arctic with Russia. The Scandinavian country "stands together with allies and like-minded people in the reactions against the brutal war of aggression by Russia," Foreign Minister
  
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• Plane crash claims 6 lives at Zimbabwean mining company-owned site

  29-09-2023 19:23 via foxnews.com
  
  A small plane owned by a mining company crashed in Zimbabwe on Friday and aviation authorities said preliminary reports indicated that all six people on board were killed. The plane belonged to Zimbabwe's RioZim Limited, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe director Elijah Chingosho said. It crashed near the Murowa Diamonds mine, in southwestern Zimbabwe, which is partly owned by RioZim. 186,000 MIGRANTS, REFUGEES HAVE ARRIVED IN SOUTHERN EUROPE IN 2023, UN SAYS Chingosho said police would provi
  
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• Videos show New York inundated by flooding

  29-09-2023 19:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Torrential rain has brought New York City to a near-standstill, with large areas hit by flash floods.
  
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• WATCH: Dog is very excited to take a nap

  29-09-2023 19:04
  
  Naps are Marty’s favorite part of the day, as is ours!
  
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• Islamic extremist attack in western Niger kills nearly a dozen soldiers amidst worsening security landscape

  29-09-2023 18:04 via foxnews.com
  
  An attack by Islamic extremists in western Niger killed at least a dozen soldiers and wounded seven others, the West African nation's military junta said. The soldiers were on a mission in the Tillaberi region town of Kandadji when hundreds of jihadis on motorcycles attacked them Thursday, Gen. Salifou Mody, Niger's defense minister, said in a statement. The wounded were evacuated to military hospitals, the statement said. The junta claimed that military personnel killed a hundred extremists and
  
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• Central Greece battles aftermath of twin storms: Flooding, infrastructure damage, and environmental concerns

  29-09-2023 17:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Bad weather eased in central Greece on Friday leaving widespread flooding and infrastructure damage across the farming region that has been battered by two powerful storms in less than a month. Divers located the body of missing pilot, a day after a helicopter flying in the bad weather crashed into the sea. In the storm-hit city of Volos, municipal workers were handing out bottled water as power and water outages remained in some districts for a third day, while rescue crews used excavators to c
  
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• Major GOP donors eye Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis as the top Trump alternatives

  29-09-2023 17:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Haley and DeSantis’ teams will go head-to-head for support at an upcoming donor conference, following a clash at Wednesday’s debate and Haley’s rising polling.
  
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• At least 59 people killed in twin attacks on mosques in Pakistan

  29-09-2023 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Suicide bombing kills at least 54 at parade to mark prophet’s birthday, while five die in attack in police compoundAt least 59 people have died in bomb attacks on two mosques in Pakistan as the country’s deteriorating security situation was laid bare on a public holiday held to celebrate the prophet Muhammad’s birthday.In the most serious incident, a suicide bomber killed at least 54 people who were gathering for a parade near a mosque to mark the prophet’s birthday in re
  
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• UAW reveals newest strike locations at GM and Ford amid ongoing fight with Detroit's Big Three

  29-09-2023 17:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  UAW autoworkers have been striking dozens of General Motors, Ford and Stellantis auto plants since mid-September in an effort to secure a new contract.
  
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• Pastor Daniel: Claims that a Christian preacher has the power to tame lions are false

  29-09-2023 17:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The viral video has spread to many countries in Africa, but does not show a church pastor taming lions.
  
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• Tributes pour in for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein

  29-09-2023 16:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tributes poured in quickly on Friday from both Democrats and Republicans after news broke that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has died at the age of 90.
  
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• Putin selects former Prigozhin aide to train Ukrainian volunteers

  29-09-2023 15:34 via foxnews.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has selected a former Wagner Group aide to coordinate volunteer soldiers in Ukraine.  The Kremlin announced the appointment of Andrei Troshev, a former aide to Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a Friday statement. Putin told Troshev, in remarks released by the Kremlin, that his job is to "deal with forming volunteer units that could perform various combat tasks, primarily in the zone of the special military operation," a reference to the war in Ukrai
  
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• The world's oldest shoes? Sandals found in bat cave believed to be thousands of years old

  29-09-2023 15:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sandals buried in a bat cave in southern Spain may be the oldest footwear ever discovered in Europe, scientists said.
  
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• Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to undergo hip replacement surgery

  29-09-2023 15:16 via foxnews.com
  
  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is scheduled to undergo hip replacement surgery Friday, a procedure likely to put a temporary halt to his frequent international trips but otherwise not disrupt his activities. The 77-year-old leader should spend a few days in the Hospital Sirio-Libanes in the capital, Brasilia, before heading back to the presidential palace early next week, said Andrea Cordeiro of the president’s press office. "The impact of Lula’s surgery will pr
  
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• Algeria expands English classes as France’s influence wanes throughout Africa

  29-09-2023 14:26 via foxnews.com
  
  More than a year after Algeria launched a pilot program to teach English in elementary schools, the country is hailing it as a success and expanding it in a move that reflects a widening linguistic shift underway in former French colonies throughout Africa. Students returning to third and fourth grade classrooms this fall will participate in two 45-minute English classes each week as the country creates new teacher training programs at universities and eyes more transformational changes in the y
  
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• 186,000 migrants, refugees have arrived in southern Europe in 2023, UN says

  29-09-2023 13:32 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday that some 186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Southern Europe so far this year, the vast majority in Italy. Between January and Sept. 24, over 2,500 people seeking to cross the Mediterranean were found dead or are still missing, a significant increase from the 1,680 people who died or were missing during the same period in 2022, Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the New York office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, told the U.N. Security Council.
  
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• Over 70% of population in Nagorno-Karabakh flees as separatist country reintegrates with Azerbaijan

  29-09-2023 13:10 via foxnews.com
  
  More than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh's original population has fled to Armenia as the region's separatist government said it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic inside Azerbaijan will cease to exist by year’s end after a three-decade bid for independence. By Friday morning 84,770 people had left Nagorno-Karabakh, according to Armenian officials, continuing a mass exodus from the region of ethnic Armenians that began Sunday. The region's population was around 120,000 before the
  
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• Eswatini election: The vote in a kingdom where parties are banned

  29-09-2023 12:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Voting is under way in Eswatini, but in Africa's last absolute monarchy, MPs have little power.
  
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• Bombing in Pakistan kills dozens at Muslim celebration

  29-09-2023 12:16 via foxnews.com
  
  A powerful bomb detonated near a mosque at an event celebrating the birthday of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and injuring nearly 70 others, authorities say. The blast, which authorities said was a suicide bombing, occurred in Mastung, a district in Baluchistan province, where around 500 people had gathered for a procession to celebrate the birth anniversary of Muhammad. Muslims hold rallies and distribute free meals to people on the
  
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• Brazil bank’s past slavery ties to be investigated in unprecedented inquiry

  29-09-2023 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Banco do Brasil, one of country’s biggest banks, under scrutiny as institutions called to account for role in trafficking of AfricansBrazilian prosecutors have launched a civil investigation into one of the country’s largest banks’ historical links to slavery, in an unprecedented move to hold Brazilian institutions to account for their role in the enslavement of millions of Africans.Banco do Brasil was notified this week of the public inquiry seeking reparations for the bank&rs
  
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• Why Biden is taking a hands-off approach to the looming shutdown

  29-09-2023 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The last time the U.S. was facing a fiscal crisis, President Joe Biden cut short an overseas trip and swiftly met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to try to avert a debt default two weeks before the deadline.
  
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• Russia's turn to North Korea for much-needed ammo a 'last resort' in Ukraine conflict: 'Hitting the dregs'

  29-09-2023 11:00 via foxnews.com
  
  North Korea’s potential partnership with Russia, which would see the country supply Moscow with much-needed munitions, is likely to make little impact in the ongoing Ukraine conflict, experts told Fox News Digital. "If you're going to North Korea for help, you're kind of hitting the dregs," said Seth Jones, director of both the International Security Program and Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "North Korea is a desperate country. It&rsqu
  
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• Wagner fighters may be back in Ukraine as Putin meets with top commander from mercenary group

  29-09-2023 10:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin met with former Wagner commander Andrei Troshev,and tasked him with overseeing volunteer fighting units in Ukraine, the Kremlin said Friday.
  
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• Weather tracker: South Africa floods kill at least 11 people

  29-09-2023 09:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Cape Town mayor declares major incident as roads closed and 80,000 people left without electricityExtreme rain and strong winds across South Africa’s Western Cape province have caused flooding, torn off roofs, destroyed crops and damaged roads this week. It is estimated that the 48-hour rainfall totals between Sunday and Monday were between 100mm to 200mm (4-8in) in this region.According to the Cape Town Disaster Risk Management Centre, 12,000 people were affected, but a further 80,000 peo
  
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• José Ramos-Horta says Australian intelligence agencies ‘know very well’ China deal is of no concern

  29-09-2023 09:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Timor-Leste’s president alludes to 2004 spying scandal as he brushes off concerns about new strategic partnership with BeijingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralian intelligence agencies “know very well” that Timor-Leste’s decision to upgrade diplomatic relations with China is nothing to worry about, the country’s president has said, in an apparent reference to the 200
  
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• Netanyahu warns of potential 'eruption of AI-driven wars' that could lead to 'unimaginable' consequences

  29-09-2023 08:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the world is on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution that could launch nations into prosperous times or lead to all-out destruction fueled by devastating high-tech wars.  "The AI revolution is progressing at lightning speed," Netanyahu said during his U.N. General Assembly speech last week. "It took centuries for humanity to adapt to the agricultural revolution. It took decades to adapt to the industrial revolution. We may have bu
  
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• Maldives election run-off pitched as fork in the road between India and China

  29-09-2023 07:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Pro-China presidential candidate Mohamed Muizzu accuses incumbent Mohamed Solih of allowing traditional benefactor India too much influenceAs the archipelago of the Maldives goes to an election run-off on Saturday, it will not just be two presidential candidates on the ballot.This election is being pitched as a larger geopolitical battle between India and China, which over the past decade have been engaged in a tug-of-war to gain influence over the Maldives. Continue reading...
  
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