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Bangladesh death toll from dengue rises, unlikely to ease before December
DHAKA, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Bangladesh recorded its highest monthly dengue death toll of the year in October, with experts warning the outbreak is unlikely to ease significantly before December.
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Taipei mayor gets angry reception at Pride after gay bar raid
TAIPEI, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an, in a close race for re-election, got an angry reception on Saturday when be briefly showed up for Taiwan's packed annual Pride parade, following a police raid on a city gay bar earlier this month.
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Abuse survivors to press Church on accountability during pope's trip to South America
MEXICO CITY/LIMA, Oct 31 (Reuters) - As Pope Leo prepares to return to South America, Peruvian abuse survivor Pedro Salinas sees reason for both hope and unease in the pope's record confronting clerical abuse.
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Rubio to host meeting of Indo-Pacific Quad, wrap up G20 gathering
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host a meeting with the foreign ministers of Australia, India and Japan on Saturday, their third meeting this year, as plans take shape for a summit of the leaders of the four countries in Manila next month.
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US campaign for control of Congress enters final weekend
WASHINGTON/ANCHORAGE, Oct 31 (Reuters) - As the campaign for control of the US Congress reached its final weekend, the Trump administration stepped up its legal intervention in the Alaska Senate race while the number of Americans casting early ballots neared 50 million, a record for a midterm election.
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Jordan stops fighters attempting to enter from Syria, armed forces say
Oct 31 (Reuters) - Jordanian border guards stopped a group of 14 armed individuals attempting to cross into northern Jordan from Syria, the armed forces said in a statement on Saturday.
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Residents of Russian-controlled Ukrainian town arrive in Belarus
KYIV, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Four planes carrying residents evacuated from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky landed in Belarus on Saturday, the Belarusian Belta state news agency and a senior Ukrainian official said.
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When buses stopped running on Brazil election day, 'Lula's Army' grabbed their car keys
SALVADOR, Brazil, Oct 31 (Reuters) - When buses in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador inexplicably stopped running last Sunday, history teacher Martins Mafra grabbed his car keys and set off to pick up stranded voters across town.
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After Louvre heist and string of thefts, Europe's smaller museums are on guard
PARMA, Italy, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Two men wearing head torches climbed through a forced-open window at the Fondazione Magnani Rocca museum near Parma on the night of March 22 and calmly lifted artworks by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse from the walls.
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Trump administration plans to deport some Afghan immigrants to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration plans to deport some Afghan immigrants to Afghanistan, a US official and a coalition of veterans and advocacy groups said on Friday.
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Trump admin approves potential Patriot missiles sale to Ukraine
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Friday green-lit the sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine, the State Department said, but the Ukrainian president warned deliveries could take years.
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Gen Z protests reach Germany as over 160,000 expected at Halloween rallies
BERLIN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - More than 160,000 people across Germany are expected to join demonstrations on Saturday, organisers say, as a youth-led movement inspired by protests elsewhere in Europe takes to the streets to demand better education and lower living costs.
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France braces for fresh unrest, government vows tough response
PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - France deployed a 70,000-strong police presence to contain a widely expected bout of fresh unrest on Saturday in the latest nationwide protests driven by anger over living costs, public services and President Emmanuel Macron's government.
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Lavrov says Zelenskiy comments are unhelpful, Russia's position is unchanged
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was cited as saying on Friday that Russia's position on the Ukraine conflict was unchanged and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's comments on maintaining strikes on Russian targets were unhelpful in preparing for new talks.
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Russia's Lavrov says inviting Poland to attend G20 meeting breaks diplomatic rules
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Friday that inviting Poland to attend G20 meetings was counter-productive and broke with diplomatic practice of seeking consensus at such gatherings.
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North Korea says sanctions don't work to deny its status as nuclear weapons state
SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) - North Korea denounced a joint statement by a group of countries monitoring sanctions enforcement against Pyongyang as a "wanton violation of its sovereignty" born out of hostility by the US and the West, KCNA state news agency reported on Saturday.
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Zelenskiy says he will head to Turkey for talks
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he would be holding "important" talks in Turkey as part of diplomatic efforts after more than 4-1/2 years of war with Russia.
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Competing US, Russia resolutions on Western Sahara defeated in UN Security Council
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russia vetoed a US-drafted resolution on Western Sahara at the Security Council on Friday, leaving the UN peacekeeping mission there without a renewed mandate just a day before it expires.
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Türkiye sees record tourism earnings despite regional tensions
ANKARA, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye's tourism revenue reached a record 51.28 billion U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2026, up 2.4 percent year-on-year, according to figures released on Friday.
