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The Trump administration on Thursday escalated its economic campaign against Cuba, issuing a determination that clears the path for U.S. sanctions on several crucial sectors of the island's economy while also targeting Chinese-based suppliers to Havana's military forces.

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Polish President Karol Nawrocki turned back ⁠to Poland while en route to Senegal after a far-right ally was suspended as head of the country's top court.

President and prime minister are embroiled in a bitter dispute over appointments to country’s constitutional court

A bid to remove the court’s nationalist-linked leadership sparked accusations of a coup and clashes between protesters and police in Warsaw.

Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola denied Thursday that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent as the Justice Department escalated a criminal investigation with new grand jury subpoenas.

Alaska's election could determine which party has a majority in the Senate. GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan faces a strong challenge from Democrat Mary Peltola.

Argentina’s farmers are evacuating their cattle by boat to higher ground as El Nino raises water levels.

Dispute centres on the appointment of university representatives to the statutory governing bodies and management councils of private and aided colleges

The cyberattackers vowed to continue leaking information on GMO account holders one by one until the company agrees to pay the $1 million ransom.

President Trump intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday, portraying him as a threat to national security and questioning his loyalty to the United States.

The US president intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan's Democrat Senate candidate at a rally.

Trump has launched another fierce anti-Muslim attack on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Trump, who imposed a travel ban targeting several predominantly Muslim countries during his first term, has increasingly leaned into anti-Muslim rhetoric as Election Day approaches.

Everyone grows up, grows older and learns in Canberra that the politics of passion give way to the business of governing and pragmatism.

The Israeli Defense Forces announces restrictions on the movement of Palestinian workers in the run-up to Tuesday's election.

With four soldiers missing, Haiti’s new Gang Suppression Force, already off to a rocky start, is facing its first crisis.

A nuclear fuel assembly that had tipped over was successfully retrieved from the soon-to-be-restarted Palisades nuclear reactor in Michigan but controversy over the restart has been escalated to Congress. On Wednesday, owners of the Holtec International reactor said “technical ingenuity” would allow efforts to resume operations at the plant to continue. “Whe

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