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Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday. Mamdani defeated Democratic former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, 67, who ran as an independent after losing the nomination to Mamdani in the primary election. In Virginia, Democrat Abigail Spanberger easily won the election for governor. And
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EU climate ministers will make a last-ditch attempt to pass a new climate change target on Tuesday, in an effort to avoid going to the UN COP30 summit in Brazil empty-handed. Failure to agree could undermine the European Union’s claims to leadership at the COP30 talks, which will test
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Armed assailants attacked a commercial tanker off the coast of Mogadishu on Monday, firing at the vessel after attempting to board the ship in the first suspected Somali piracy incident of its kind since 2024, maritime sources said. If confirmed, this would be the first Somali piracy attack against a
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The United States has praised Spain’s contribution to NATO, the Spanish defense minister said Monday, after President Donald Trump suggested expelling the country from the alliance for not meeting his military spending target. Last week, the United States announced the withdrawal of some troops from the alliance’s sensitive
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US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that, for now, he is not considering a deal that would allow Ukraine to obtain long-range Tomahawk missiles for use against Russia. Trump has been cool to a plan for the United States to sell Tomahawks to NATO nations that would transfer them
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Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated as president on Monday, with an Internet blackout still in place after election protests in which the opposition says hundreds were killed by security forces. The electoral commission said Hassan won 98 percent of the vote. She was sworn into office despite the
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A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday, saying she “found no credible evidence” that protests in the city grew out of control before the president federalized the troops earlier this fall. The
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China’s military said on Saturday it monitored and tracked a joint patrol organized by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea on October 30 and October 31. Washington and Manila have beefed up military cooperation, unveiling plans on Friday to form a new joint task force for areas
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Pakistan on Saturday partially reopened the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow thousands of stranded Afghan refugees to return home, officials said. Restrictions remain on all other cross-border movement, including trade. Pakistan closed all border crossings with Afghanistan on Oct. 12 following deadly clashes in which both sides claimed
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New satellite imagery suggests that mass killings are likely continuing in and around the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, Yale researchers said, days after it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. At war with the regular army since April 2023, the RSF seized El-Fasher on Sunday, pushing the army out
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King Charles III on Thursday stripped his disgraced brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Buckingham Palace said the king “initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles
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A Japanese atomic bomb survivors group that won the Nobel Peace Prize has strongly criticized US President Donald Trump’s surprise directive to begin nuclear weapons testing, calling it “utterly unacceptable.” More than 200,000 people were killed when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan’s Hiroshima
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Taiwan does not want China’s “one country, two systems” and must uphold its freedom and democracy, and resolve to defend itself, President Lai Ching-te said on Friday, rejecting Beijing’s latest push to get the island to come under Chinese control. China said this week it “absolutely will not”
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The recent military assault by the Pakistani Army on the city of Panjgur in Eastern Balochistan represents yet another horrific chapter in the ongoing campaign of state terror against the Baloch people. During this brutal operation, Pakistani soldiers looted civilian homes, stole people’s belongings, and committed grave human rights
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China said Thursday it’s on track to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 as it introduced the next crew of astronauts who will head to its space station as part of the country’s ambitious plans to be a leader in space exploration. “Currently, each program of the
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US President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defense to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an “equal basis” with other nuclear powers. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War