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Malaysia's nearly century-old Mahathir seeks re-election
Mahathir Mohamad, the nearly 100-year-old elder statesman of Malaysian politics, filed his candidacy Saturday in what could be his final race, as campaigning for upcoming general elections began.
Okyeame Kwame and Son Sir Kwame Bota Star in Disney Plus Movie with US A Cappella Group Pentatonix, Ghanaians React
Okyeame Kwame and his son Sir Bota Kwame Nsiah, have held the flag of Ghana high with an appearance in the movie Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays.
US B-1B bomber to join S. Korea joint air drills: official
A US B-1B strategic bomber will participate in the ongoing joint air drills with South Korea on Saturday, a defence ministry official in Seoul told AFP, a show of force after a blitz of missile launches by North Korea.
Biden insists Democrats can win US midterms
President Joe Biden insisted on Friday that Democrats will win next week's US midterm elections, but warned of a difficult two years if polls showing Republican victories prove correct. Polls show Republicans poised for potentially big victories in Tuesday's congressional election, hoping to win control not only in the House of Representatives but the Senate.
'We need to rebel': climate change needs radical response says XR activist
Soup on Vincent van Gogh paintings, mashed potatoes on a Monet masterpiece: climate activists are taking increasingly daring action to grab headlines -- and it's working. - Climate protesters have recently thrown soup over a Van Gogh painting and mashed potato over a Monet.
Candlelight vigils to mourn South Korea Halloween disaster victims
Candlelight vigils and rallies were expected in South Korea on Saturday to commemorate the 156 people killed in a Halloween crowd crush, with public anger growing over one of the country's deadliest peacetime disasters. Public scrutiny of how the Halloween crowd was managed is mounting, and a wide-ranging probe is under way into the exact cause of the crush.
US Latinos: less predictable at the polls, more focused on pocketbook
While Latino voters lean Democratic in the run-up to US midterm elections, soaring inflation makes their support less predictable and may compel a shift toward Republican candidates, analysts say. "The alarm for the Democratic Party is that if it doesn't retain its margin of support among Latino voters, it runs the risk of losing key, tightly-contested elections," Dominguez-Villegas added.
Italy to let migrant rescue ship dock for health checks: foreign minister
Italy will allow an NGO ship carrying 179 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to dock so medics can carry out health checks, the country's foreign minister said Friday. More than 1,000 migrants are currently aboard rescue boats trying to reach Europe, and Italy has faced mounting pressure to let humanitarian ships dock.
Indigenous people free tourists taken in Peruvian Amazon
Members of an Indigenous group on Friday freed more than 100 tourists whom they had abducted in the Peruvian Amazon a day earlier to protest what they called government inaction after an oil spill, officials said.
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