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Why muted mics won’t help Trump or Harris at debate

We assess each candidate's strengths and weaknesses when put in the spotlight and under pressure.

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Typhoon Yagi collapses busy bridge in Vietnam

Yagi, Asia's most powerful storm this year, has killed more than 60 people since it made landfall in Vietnam.

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Former Lebanon central bank chief to remain in jail while facing corruption charges

A Lebanese judge has ruled that the country’s former central bank chief will remain in jail while facing charges of embezzling tens of millions of dollars from state coffers

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Oman state-run oil firm will make initial public offering, potentially seek billions

An Omani state-run oil and gas company says it will make an initial public offering of its exploration and production business, potentially seeking billions in a major move toward privatization in the sultanate

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Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel orders more evacuations in Gaza after militants fire rockets

The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon

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A bomb hits a vehicle guarding an anti-polio drive in Pakistan and wounds 9

Officials say a roadside bomb has hit a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect health workers conducting a polio immunization drive in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six officers and three civilians

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China announces joint naval, air drills with Russia

China's Defense Ministry has announced joint naval and air drills with Russia starting this month, underscoring the closeness between their militaries as Russia presses its grinding invasion of Ukraine

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South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions

A South Korean truth commission says it found evidence that women were pressured into giving away their infants for foreign adoptions at government-funded facilities where thousands of so-called “vagrants” were confined and enslaved from the 1960s to t...

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A van packed with migrants veers off a road in Croatia, injuring 14

A van apparently packed with migrants veered off a road and hit a lamp post in Croatia while speeding to escape police, injuring 14 people

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Storm deaths in Vietnam rise to 59 and flooding sweeps away a bus carrying 20 people, state media report

Storm deaths in Vietnam rise to 59 and flooding sweeps away a bus carrying 20 people, state media report

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Bridge collapses as more rain falls in Vietnam and storm deaths rise to 21

A bridge has collapsed as more rain falls on northern Vietnam from a former typhoon that caused landslides, flooding, power outages and at least 21 deaths

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Israeli strikes in Syria leave 14 dead and more than 40 wounded, Syrian state media says

Syrian state media says the number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes in Syria has risen to 14 with more than 40 wounded

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Israeli strikes in central Syria kill 14, Syrian state media say

The Israeli military has not commented on the strikes on a number of military sites around Masyaf.

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Pope arrives in East Timor on his first trip to the deeply Catholic country after two decades of independence

Pope arrives in East Timor on his first trip to the deeply Catholic country after two decades of independence

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Pope arrives in deeply Catholic East Timor to encourage its recovery from bloody independence

Pope Francis has arrived in East Timor to encourage its recovery from a bloody and traumatic past and celebrate its development after two decades of independence from Indonesian rule

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Inside Pokrovsk, the vital Ukrainian town in Russia's sights

If invading Russians seize this vital transport hub, Ukraine could lose the entire Donetsk region.

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No cries or gurgles: The hospital ward filled with starving babies

Acute malnutrition, which has ravaged Afghanistan for decades, has reached an unprecedented level.

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A Palestinian team in Chile offers soccer with a heavy dose of protest

The players have names like José and Antonio and grew up in a South American nation near Antarctica

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Google's lucrative ad tech business goes on trial

Regulators have successfully argued Google is too powerful in search - now they are coming for its ad tech.

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Sinner storms past Fritz to win first US Open title

Jannik Sinner holds off a late charge from American Taylor Fritz to win the US Open and secure his second Grand Slam title.

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