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• G7 vows to clamp down on Russia’s oil sanctions evasion

  26-10-2024 23:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Group commits to unspecified measures to enforce price cap on Russian exports in response to Ukraine warFinance ministers of the G7 nations vowed on Saturday to step up efforts to prevent Russia from evading sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine.“We remain committed to taking further initiatives in response to oil price cap violations,” the group said in a statement after a meeting in Washington. Those further steps were not spelled out in detail. Continue reading...
  
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• Search intensifies in Oregon for fugitive charged with luring child and escaped capture across multiple states

  26-10-2024 23:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in Oregon are searching for an alleged male child sexual predator who escaped capture in Idaho and is potentially dressed as a woman.The Jackson County Sheriff's Office in Oregon announced on Saturday that Christian Bert Fischer, 42, is wanted in Florida for traveling to meet a minor after using a computer to lure a child.Officials said Fischer has ties to Southern Oregon and is on the run after eluding capture by police in Coeur D'alene on Tuesday, October 22. On the second day
  
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• Shaq shocks Angel Reese by saying she should wear revealing clothes in games to make more money

  26-10-2024 23:45 via foxnews.com
  
  As a fan of women's basketball, Shaquille O'Neal has his own ideas about how to generate more interest in the WNBA. He shared one of those ideas with Chicago Sky rookie star Angel Reese, and he got a hostile response. During an interview on Reese's podcast "Unapologetically Angel" this week, O'Neal brought up an outfit Reese wore off the court and referenced it as a potential business strategy for Reese and others to sell more merchandise. The outfit O'Neal referenced was a gray long-s
  
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• Trump earns endorsement from 'highly respected' Muslim leaders in battleground state

  26-10-2024 23:36 via foxnews.com
  
  Former President Trump earned endorsements from "highly respected" Muslim leaders and Imams during a campaign rally in the battleground state of Michigan. Trump, speaking to a crowd in Novi, Michigan, on Saturday afternoon, called the group of Muslim leaders "highly respected," before bringing them onstage."I’m thrilled to accept the endorsement of these highly respected leaders," Trump told the thundering crowd.‘KIND OF DISGUSTING’: HARRIS MAKES MOVE THAT COULD BACKFIRE I
  
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• Pop star Chappell Roan snaps at ‘disrespectful’ photographer on red carpet, demands an apology

  26-10-2024 23:08 via foxnews.com
  
  Singer Chappell Roan called out a "disrespectful" photographer at a Los Angeles movie premiere. When Roan, 26, posed for photos on the red carpet for Olivia Rodrigo’s "GUTS" film, she recognized a photographer who allegedly shouted at her at the Grammy Awards. In a viral fan video, the singer angrily approached the unidentified photographer and yelled, "You were so disrespectful to me at the Grammys."VMA WINNER CHAPPELL ROAN YELLS AT PHOTOGRAPHER ON RED CARPET TO 'SHUT THE F--- U
  
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• Biden claps back at Trump in fiery Pittsburgh speech: 'He's a loser'

  26-10-2024 22:51 via foxnews.com
  
  President Biden took aim at former President Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania Saturday, using his remarks to cast his predecessor as an anti-labor leader who, if re-elected, would renege on some of the union's hardest-fought gains.Speaking at an event in Pittsburgh, Biden repeatedly described Trump as a "loser" who doesn’t care about union workers and would gladly do away with benefits like health care and pension plans if he won the presidency a second time."Donald Trump is a los
  
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• Nasa astronaut released from hospital after space return

  26-10-2024 22:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Unidentified member of team who returned in SpaceX capsule from ISS had been kept for observationA Nasa astronaut who was briefly hospitalised after returning from space has been released, the space agency said Saturday.Nasa’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin, were flown to the hospital for additional medical checks on Friday after parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast on board a SpaceX capsule. Continue reading
  
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• ‘A lot of fun’: will Trump’s rambling Joe Rogan interview rally young men?

  26-10-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump came across as old and unintelligent, but he was politically unscathed by a softball interviewIn an interview in which Donald Trump said that he wants to be “a whale psychologist”, made the case for replacing income tax with tariffs and praised Confederate general Robert E Lee as a “genius”, the most striking thing about the former president’s encounter with podcaster Joe Rogan wasn’t the content as much as the length.Over three hours, perhaps the longes
  
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• Israel strikes back: What will Iran do next?

  26-10-2024 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Iran says it has right to defend itself after Israeli attack
  
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• Joe Biden says he hopes latest Israeli strike on Iran will end escalation

  26-10-2024 20:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Iran’s military suggests it would prioritise an agreement to end fighting in Gaza and Lebanon over any retaliation The US President Joe Biden said on Saturday he hopes Israel’s latest strikes on Iran will mark the end of a months-long cycle of escalation, as his administration doubles down on efforts to reach a ceasefire deal for Gaza and Lebanon. “I hope this is the end,” he told reporters.Waves of fighter jets and drones bombed military sites across Iran in an hours-lon
  
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• Georgia’s ruling party leading in pivotal election ahead of pro-EU opposition

  26-10-2024 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Results with 70% of precincts counted give Georgian Dream majority in vote seen as crucial to possible EU membershipCalls for protests as ruling pro-Russia party declared winnerGeorgia’s ruling party is leading in a pivotal parliamentary election widely seen as a make-or-break vote for the country’s long-held aspiration for EU membership.Early official results, with 70% of precincts counted, showed the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party had won 53% of the vote, the electoral commission
  
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• Two brothers die in Ballymoney crash

  26-10-2024 18:54 via bbc.com
  
  Brothers Des and Sam Holmes were travelling in a car that was involved in a collision with a lorry.
  
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• Iran-Israel’s shadow war is out in the open and will only escalate unless causes addressed

  26-10-2024 18:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Face-to-face military confrontation on each other’s soil has now been normalisedFor years, Israel and Iran have waged a “shadow war”, attacking each other indirectly using proxy forces, assassinations, informants, spies and hybrid, non-military covert means. Now this undeclared, largely silent war is undisguisedly out in the open. It’s become a shooting war, it’s noisy, it’s escalating, and there’s no end in sight.This is not to say Israel’s large-
  
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• Beyoncé appears at Harris rally in Houston

  26-10-2024 18:36
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally in Houston on Friday, with some help from Beyoncé, for a night focused on abortion rights.
  
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• Israel strikes Iran

  26-10-2024 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  IDF confirms “precise” strikes hit military targets
  
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• Bowen: Iran faces hard choices between risks of escalation or looking weak

  26-10-2024 17:19 via bbc.com
  
  International editor Jeremy Bowen examines what Iran's response might be to Israel's latest attack.
  
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• Ministers urged to cut ties with P&O Ferries owner over links to Russia

  26-10-2024 16:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The government is facing calls to cease trading with DP World because of its partnership with Putin’s northern sea route Ministers are facing calls to review the UK’s financial ties to the multinational logistics company DP World over its business deals in Russia.The business announced a £1bn expansion of the London Gateway port earlier this month, despite a row over the transport secretary, Louise Haigh, calling its ferry subsidiary, P&O Ferries, a “rogue operator&rd
  
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• Israel’s 'Days of Repentance' strikes against Iran will continue if terror regime responds, IDF warns

  26-10-2024 16:27 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM—After Israel’s daring aerial military strikes in Iran early Saturday, the Jewish state announced that it is prepared to continue to go on the "offense" against the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, if Tehran responds.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said, "If the regime in Iran were to make the mistake of beginning a new round of escalation - we will be obligated to respond. Our messag
  
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• Dozens dead in floods and landslides after tropical storm Trami hits the Philippines

  26-10-2024 16:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Rescue workers continue to search for missing after storm brings two months’ rainfall to some areas in 24 hoursThe number of dead and missing after tropical storm Trami caused extensive flooding and landslides in the Philippines has exceeded 100, as the president said many areas remained isolated.Trami blew away from the north-western Philippines on Friday, leaving at least 81 people dead and 34 others missing in one of the south-east Asian archipelago’s deadliest and most destructiv
  
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• World leaders call for restraint after Israel’s airstrikes on Iran

  26-10-2024 16:04 via theguardian.com
  
  US and European states urge Tehran not to respond, while Middle Eastern countries condemn Israeli operationMiddle East crisis – live updatesWorld leaders have called for restraint after the first open Israeli airstrikes on Iran, after Tehran reiterated that it was “entitled and obligated to defend itself”.The Israeli air force struck about 20 military bases across Iran, including missile and drone manufacturing sites and air defence systems, in the early hours of Saturday. Cont
  
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• A (sort-of) illustrated guide to the voting systems of three crucial swing states

  26-10-2024 16:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Election officials — and reporters like me — have spent years explaining that voter fraud is incredibly rare.
  
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• ‘There is no money’: Cuba fears total collapse amid grid failure and financial crisis

  26-10-2024 15:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Repeated blackouts leave residents concerned about food, water supply and Cuba’s futureMaria Elena Cárdenas is 76 and lives in a municipal shelter on Amargura Street in Havana’s colonial old town. The building has an elegant past, but for the last few days Maria has been cooking with sticks she had found on the street.“You know, we Cubans manage the best we can,” she said. She lives in the shelter because her home collapsed, a regular occurrence in the poorest, old
  
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• Iran mocks Israel’s ‘weak’ attacks as hardliners call for reprisal

  26-10-2024 15:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Political elite under pressure from variety of sources, with US urging Iran to step back from the brinkMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Iranian government has belittled the scale and effectiveness of the Israeli attack on its military sites, but hardliners in the parliament insisted the strikes breached Iranian red lines and required a swift response, preferably at a time when Israel is already enmeshed in Lebanon and Gaza.The internal Iranian debate on how to respond to the long-await
  
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• Georgians head to the polls in pivotal parliamentary election

  26-10-2024 15:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Voters will decide if Georgian Dream party, in power since 2012, will secure another four-years, having shifted the country closer to RussiaGeorgians have headed to the polls in a pivotal parliamentary election that could determine whether Georgia shifts away from its long-held western orientations towards stronger ties with the Kremlin.Voters will decide on Saturday whether the Georgian Dream (GD) party, which has been in power since 2012 and steered the country into a conservative course away
  
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• Trump supporters who bought his lies about the last election face reality in court

  26-10-2024 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Days before the 2024 election, the FBI continues to arrest alleged Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol because of Donald Trump's lies about the last election.
  
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• ‘Time has come’: Commonwealth heads agree to reparatory justice dialogue despite reluctant UK

  26-10-2024 14:45 via theguardian.com
  
  UK government stresses it does not pay reparations and said before Chogm summit that issue was not on agendaCommonwealth leaders have resolved that “the time has come” for a conversation on reparatory justice despite the UK’s insistence that the issue was not on their agenda.The language, agreed at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) on Saturday, is a blow to the UK, which wanted to avoid reparatory justice being mentioned. Continue reading...
  
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• Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey appointed Commonwealth secretary general

  26-10-2024 13:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Ghana’s foreign minister since 2017, Botchwey supports calls for reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism Commonwealth members have appointed Ghana’s foreign minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, as the new secretary general, on the final day of the group’s summit in Samoa.Botchwey, a former lawmaker who has served as Ghana’s foreign minister since 2017, has supported calls for reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism – a position that was al
  
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• UN secretary-general won’t condemn official accused of antisemitism; US said to grant visa for visit

  26-10-2024 13:00 via foxnews.com
  
  U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is once again under fire for not speaking out against Francesca Albanese, the controversial U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, who has been condemned for being antisemitic.Albanese is traveling to the U.S. to present her latest report, "Genocide as colonial erasure," before the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, which oversees social, humanitarian and cultural issues. Albanese’s report, now widely
  
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• Advocates say gun violence still a big issue despite flurry of election topics

  26-10-2024 12:10
  
  Attention paid to gun violence prevention has had to compete and, at times, has been overshadowed by other hot-button campaign topics.
  
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• 'We must mobilize': Harris rallies with Beyoncé and Willie Nelson in Texas

  26-10-2024 06:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  In a star-studded evening before tens of thousands of supporters, Kamala Harris held a rally in Houston that featured Beyoncé and Willie Nelson.
  
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• Gleyber Torres' hit called a double after fan interfered and reached over stands to make the catch

  26-10-2024 05:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Major drama occurred in the opening game of the 2024 World Series that may have decided which team won Game 1.
  
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• US made aware of Israel's strike on Iran days in advance; IDF says mission complete

  26-10-2024 05:46 via foxnews.com
  
  The Biden administration was made aware of Israel’s plans to strike Iran in retaliation for the Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack days in advance of the strike Friday night. A source familiar with the proceeding confirmed to Fox News that multiple conversations were held between U.S. and Israeli officials, and the exact time of attack was communicated to Washington on Friday. Speculation surfaced earlier in the day that the long-awaited attack – which Israel vowed to hit Tehr
  
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• Viral video of ripped-up Pennsylvania ballots is fake and Russian-made, intelligence agencies say

  26-10-2024 04:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Russian actors "manufactured and amplified" a viral video that falsely showed a person tearing up ballots in Pennsylvania, the FBI and two other federal agencies said Friday.
  
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• Rare tool dating back 3,500 years found in the UK

  26-10-2024 03:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Archaeologists with Wessex Archaeology were working through an excavation ahead of a habitat project when they came across a wooden tool that turned out to be one of the oldest and most complete ever discovered in Britain.Wessex Archaeology announced the ancient find in a news release published this week. During the early stages of the excavation near Poole Harbour at a construction site in a diverse wetlands habitat, there wasn't much to be found other than a few shards of pottery and some
  
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• Delphi murders trial: A volunteer assisting police helped identify the man charged with killing 2 teens

  26-10-2024 03:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Five years before he was charged with killing two middle school students near an Indiana trail, Richard Allen reached out to authorities about the double murder: He’d been in the area the day the girls were killed, he told an investigator at the time.
  
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• Chinese hackers believed to have targeted Trump, Vance cellphones: Sources

  26-10-2024 03:10
  
  Chinese hackers believed to have targeted Trump, Vance cell phones, according to reports.
  
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• China building ‘counter-stealth’ radar on disputed South China Sea reef, satellite pictures suggest

  26-10-2024 02:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Upgraded Triton Island outpost in the Paracel archipelago expands China’s surveillance capabilities in the regionThe Chinese military is constructing a new counter-stealth radar system on a disputed reef in the South China Sea that would significantly expand its surveillance capabilities in the region, satellite imagery suggests.Analysis by Chatham House suggests China is upgrading its outpost on Triton Island, on the south-west corner of the Paracel archipelago, building what may be a lau
  
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• WATCH: Strong explosions reported around Tehran, Iran state TV confirms

  26-10-2024 02:16
  
  Israel confirmed it has begun retaliatory strikes against Iran in the wake of the Oct. 1 missile barrage.
  
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• Special Report: Israel launches retaliatory strikes on Iran

  26-10-2024 01:55 via nbcnews.com
  Israel is conducting retaliatory attacks in Iran. These retaliatory strikes are in response to previous attacks from Iran, according to the IDF. 
  
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• Army releases report on incident involving Trump campaign aide at Arlington cemetery

  26-10-2024 01:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. Army on Friday released a heavily redacted copy of a police report stemming from an August incident in which a staffer from former President Donald Trump’s campaign allegedly pushed an Arlington National Cemetery worker.
  
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• These Americans told pollsters Trump is a fascist. They’ll still vote for him

  26-10-2024 01:42
  
  Among registered voters who say Trump is a fascist, 8% support him anyway.
  
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• Israel begins retaliatory strikes against Iran following missile barrage targeting Israelis

  26-10-2024 01:31 via foxnews.com
  
  In the largest attack by Israel on Iran in history, Jerusalem on Friday launched a wave of retaliatory airstrikes against Iran after the Islamic Republic fired a barrage of missiles toward Israelis earlier this month. Local Israeli news outlet Channel 12 reported that in a direct attack on Iran, Israel sent 140 Air Force planes to the skies for the assault that has reportedly targeted military facilities containing missile exports, drones, ballistic missile transmitters and Iran's air defen
  
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• Dodgers win Game 1 of World Series on Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam

  26-10-2024 01:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Follow live updates and the latest coverage of World Series Game 1 as the Dodgers face the Yankees. Get real-time scores, highlights, and key player moments from the game.
  
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• What food safety experts steer clear of to avoid E. coli

  26-10-2024 01:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  An E. coli outbreak is believed to be linked to slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. Food safety experts explain why some types of produce have a higher risk of contamination.
  
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• Musk's election falsehoods travel hundreds of times further on X than fact-checks from officials

  26-10-2024 00:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  As Elon Musk continues to aggressively share conspiracy theories and misinformation about elections on X, election officials are fighting back.
  
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