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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brewers fans were lining the streets of Milwaukee early Friday morning, with thousands expected for a parade celebrating the franchise's first World Series title.

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This year the annual fright-fest falls on a Saturday for the first time since the depths of the pandemic – and Sydneysiders are embracing it.

DEA Special Agent David Howell tells CBS News the agency tasked with enforcing federal drug laws has allowed millions of fentanyl pills to hit the streets.

An estimated 100,000 people gathered for the Cadillac driver's showrun, his fourth in Mexico during his Formula One career.

The monarch is in the Bahamas as part of a tour of the Caribbean during which he addressed the "great suffering of the past".

Halloween is one of the rare nights when children take back the neighbourhood. Bicycle Queensland is urging people to leave their cars in the garage.

Small business owners in Britain may get some tax relief in Wednesday's budget, but they say it will not be enough.

At a home for disabled residents, dirty linen and nappies piled up during a five-day water outage. Elsewhere, desperate residents are illegally breaking open fire hydrants, private water sales have prompted a warning and protests are spreading as Johannesburg also battles electricity and refuse-collection failures.

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Student movement ousts Serbian strongman from power, ushering in a seismic political shift in Balkan country

The Collector said Coimbatore city had received more than 80 mm of rain within three hours, between 2.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. on October 25, resulting in a sudden increase in runoff.

Avenues and squares in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo filled with crowds dressed in red, celebrating democracy.

Bank of America’s fund manager survey shows a record number plan to underweight French stocks over the next year, but other market adages are available

Burnham made ending rough sleeping his first pledge when entering Downing Street in July.

Joining a night patrol in Kempton Park meant walking streets I’d normally avoid after sunset. Surrounded by darkness and mindful of the recent murders of women in Ekurhuleni, I felt an unsettling fear in the place I’ve called home my whole life.

Victorians face below-average spring temperatures and alpine snow flurries before conditions improve ahead of Melbourne Cup Day.

Fed up with the political establishment and rising cost of living, demonstrators hoped to make their message heard after violence overshadowed protests last weekend.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched across France on Saturday over school funding and soaring living costs, challenging President Emmanuel Macron’s government in a largely peaceful demonstration before clashes broke out. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports from Paris.

Police and elite security forces are out in force in French cities as tens of thousands participate in a new round of protests. The situation is slowing turning tense in some cities like Paris and Marseille. Follow DW.

The movement that paralyzed Paris eight years ago is joining a widening collection of protest groups challenging authorities.

Thousands of APC supporters on Friday joined a solidarity walk in Kaduna ahead of President Bola Tinubu’s presidential campaign rally on Saturday. Read More: https://punchng.com/thousands-flood-kaduna-streets-ahead-of-apc-presidential-campaign-rally/

Mirik Milan says nighttime in cities is seen as a blight of “mischief and mayhem”. His vision transformed Amsterdam’s outskirts – and it could do the same for Melbourne.

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There is despair in France over how to stop a violent upheaval turning into a social collapse. The breakdown in order is so widespread, that it is impossible to turn away with a Gallic shrug.

Young Serbians have built a system that poses a threat to President Aleksandar Vucic’s grip on power.

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After overcoming 40 years of drug-taking, Paul Killeen says running helps him to stay healthy

Hollywood heavyweight Jamie Foxx is taking over Melbourne, transforming the streets into a virtual New York City for his latest action blockbuster.

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