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Water, jobs and crime among key issues for South African voters

South Africans vote in municipal elections on November 4, with basic services, unemployment and crime topping the agenda in the country's biggest cities.In Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria and Durban, concerns range from unreliable water and electricity supplies to joblessness, public safety and a lack of affordable housing.Here are some of the key issues shaping the vote in the major metros:WATER, ELECTRICITY AND SERVICE DELIVERYWater shortages and unreliable electricity supplies have become symbols of municipal failures that have angered voters and eroded support for the ruling African Nat

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Israeli strikes kill three people in Gaza, medics say

Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the territory's health officials said.Medics said two people were killed and six others wounded in two separate airstrikes in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, while a third person was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the town of Al-Mussadar.The Israeli military said it carried out two strikes in the enclave, targeting Palestinian militants, without giving further information.Israel, which says the Hamas militant group has been rearming and launching attacks in violation of a ye

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Bangladesh garment factories reopen as wage protests keep industry on edge

Bangladesh's garment factories reopened on Monday after widespread closures and production disruptions a day earlier, but manufacturers remain concerned about further unrest over workers' demands for higher wages. The ready-made garment sector accounts for more than 80% of Bangladesh's export earnings, employs about 4 million workers and contributes around 10% to gross domestic product. The latest unrest disrupted operations in key manufacturing hubs and raised concerns over export shipments and buyer confidence in Bangladesh, the world's second-largest apparel exporter after China, as work

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Sen. Chris Murphy hospitalized with stroke and expected to make full recovery, his team says

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after experiencing a stroke and is expected to make a full recovery, his team announced Sunday.The 53-year-old experienced “numbness in his arm” on Saturday afternoon and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he suffered a stroke, according to a statement from his office.He is at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and “the doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery,” wrote his chief of staff, Allison Herwitt.Murphy has served in the Senate since 2013, and pre

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Democratic leaders enter the midterms ‘confident and paranoid’

No part of a rolling, decadelong existential crisis is ever easy, even when things seem on the cusp of going well — and especially when Democrats have had their hopes raised and dashed so many times.“It’s a little bit of deja vu,” said Elaine Luria, who in 2018 flipped Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District in the Democratic midterm wave during Donald Trump’s first term, held onto it in a squeaker in 2020 to help make up a slim majority, lost it in 2022 as part of Republicans winning their own small majority, and is now running to get it back.“If you see how people are feeling tod

Michigan Democrat's endorsement of Republican ruffles critical Senate race

'Grasping at straws': Judge dismisses Trump suit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein letter

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Over 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens are not on Calif. voter rolls, analysis finds

More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California by the Trump administration cannot be found on the state's voter rolls, according to a legal filing Saturday by an immigrant-rights group. It's the first outside analysis of a list that the Department of Justice has used to threaten prosecution of election officials. The analysis also found that thousands of U.S. citizens appear to be flagged as ineligible to vote on the government's list. The contention was made in a filing by two data analysts at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Middle East on edge as fears mount that Iran war could restart after the midterms

With little transparency from Washington and warmongering from Tehran, people across the Middle East have been left anxious and confused, scanning for signals on whether the conflict between Iran and the United States will reignite.“The mood has definitely shifted,” a 36-year-old American national living in Saudi Arabia told CNN. She plans to leave before Tuesday’s midterms, after which US President Donald Trump has hinted renewed fighting is possible.“People are more cautious in general, and it feels like a waiting game to see what happens,” she added.At homes and workplaces across

Storm set to hit central US on Election Day as key midterm races hang in balance

ICE agent charged with assault for hitting a fleeing man with his car will turn himself in on Monday

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Italian taxpayers are paying millions to keep Russian yachts afloat

An expensive floating eyesore has marred views in the port of Trieste, northern Italy, for more than four years, and it is costing Italian taxpayers millions to maintain, the city’s mayor says.Russian oligarch Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko’s “Sailing Yacht A,” one of the world’s largest sailing vessels and worth around $600 million, was in Trieste for maintenance in March 2022 when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to widespread sanctions and seizures of Russian assets.Among them was Melnichenko’s 468-foot craft, once dubbed the “world’s ugliest yacht” and known simply as “

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On Day of the Dead, tourists bump shoulders with celebrating families in San Andrés Mixquic

As night falls over the cemetery in San Andrés Mixquic, a historic village on the outskirts of Mexico City, the family of Ángel Jiménez del Águila huddles around his grave.“Salucita for our dead,” says Jesús, one of Ángel’s sons, raising a toast to his father, who died in 2010.Only a few hours remain before the door between the world of the living and the dead opens: the family has gathered to honor Ángel during the Day of the Dead, a traditional Mexican celebration of departed loved ones held November 1 and 2.After days of cleaning graves and decorating headstones with marigolds,

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Starved residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky return to Ukraine during a rare local ceasefire

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Polish PM Tusk vows support for tribunal amid court crisis

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sought to offer assurances that the country's Constitutional Tribunal will operate in accordance with the law, after President Karol Nawrocki, an ally of the previous hard-right government, accused him of staging a forced takeover of the court.Late on Friday, the Constitutional Tribunal said its longest-serving judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska had suspended Bogdan Swieczkowski, the tribunal's president and an appointee of Tusk's nationalist predecessor, and was now in charge of the court.The move escalated a battle between Nawrocki and Tusk's pro-European governm

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Why this year’s World Series won’t prevent a labor dispute that imperils the 2027 season

The Milwaukee Brewers play in Major League Baseball’s smallest media market and their payroll is the 19th highest of the league’s 30 teams. Their World Series win this week would seem to puncture the claim that baseball needs a dramatic economic overhaul to be fair for the proverbial little guys.And yet, all indications are that the owners still intend to wage what is likely to be a contentious war in the upcoming labor negotiations, which will ratchet up in about a month and could wind up wiping out a significant portion of the next season.But commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters just

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Reunited after 1,711 days: Oleshky evacuees return to Ukraine under Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire

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Trump rallies in Iowa and Kansas as Republicans fight to keep Senate and House control

President Donald Trump has wrapped up the final weekend of a turbulent midterm campaign with rallies in Iowa and Kansas

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Top Kennedy Center official urged closure due to financial problems, not poor conditions, lawyers argue

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California governor asks US judges to resist Trump attempts to seize ballots

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday warned federal courts to be ready for potential attempts by President Donald Trump's administration to seize ballots

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MAHA helped power Trump’s 2024 victory — but now RFK Jr. is exposing a GOP midterm vulnerability

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Early voting jumps across Senate battlegrounds as millions more Americans vote ahead of Election Day

Early voting is surging ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, particularly in states with competitive Senate races

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls

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