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Number of young and new voters surges in Texas early voting
Data shows that young people are voting early in troves in Texas, where progressive Democrat Beto O'Rourke is hoping to oust incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz in the upcoming midterm vote. Upwards of 332,000
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Cuba’s president set to meet Putin in Moscow for economic talks
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel has arrived in Russia for talks expected to focus on strengthening economic ties between the two countries. The 57-year-old is due to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the capital,
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India: Suspected separatists shoot dead five in Assam
Suspected separatist gunmen have shot dead five people they singled out in northeastern India's Assam state where ethnic tensions are simmering over the government's plans to amend a law on citizenship. Authorities said they
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Tennessee to kill man by electric chair for first time since 2007
Tennessee plans to execute 63-year-old Edmund Zagorski by electrocution on Thursday night after the condemned man requested not to be put to death by lethal injection. Zagorski, who killed two men in 1983 who
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Yemen government ready to re-start talks with Houthi rebels
ADEN: Yemen’s government said Thursday it was ready to re-start peace talks with Houthi rebels, as international pressure to end the years-long conflict intensifies.The United Nations said a day earlier it aimed to relaunch
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260,000 Syrians have returned to ‘Euphrates Shield’ area — Turkey
ANKARA: A total of 260,000 Syrian nationals have returned to a swathe of land in northern Syria where Turkey carried out a cross-border operation dubbed “Euphrates Shield,” Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday.Turkey
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‘Sickening’: New anti-immigrant Trump campaign ad stokes outrage
Just five days before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump tweeted an anti-immigrant online campaign video blaming Democrats and suggesting, without evidence, that a US-bound caravan of Central American refugees and migrants includes murderers.
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How Trump is damaging historical relations with Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has been a strategic US partner in the Middle East for decades, first as a bulwark against the expansion of USSR-friendly regimes during the Cold War, then as an important guarantor of
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US charges Malaysian financier, Goldman Sachs bankers over 1MDB
Prosecutors in the United States have unveiled criminal charges against a Malaysian financier and two former Goldman Sachs bankers tied to the billion-dollar 1MDB sovereign wealth fund scandal. The three-count indictment on Thursday charges Low Taek
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Google staff walk out in protest over treatment of women
Hundreds of Google employees around the world have walked off the job, in an unprecedented protest against the internet giant's lenient approach to executives accused of sexual misconduct. Staff are demanding changes in how


