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NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA,  (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump headlined a rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden today that began with a series of vulgar and racist remarks by allies of the former president.

TBILISI, (Reuters) – Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili called today for people to take to the streets to protest the results of Saturday’s disputed parliamentary election, which the electoral commission said the ruling party had won.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan’s ruling coalition lost its parliamentary majority in a drubbing at today’s national election, raising uncertainty over the make-up of the next government and the outlook for the world’s fourth-largest economy.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina,  (Reuters) – With his third straight U.S. presidential campaign coming down to the wire, Donald Trump mused at a rally about hydrogen-powered cars exploding, lamented how difficult it is to get spray paint off limestone and marveled at how billionaire backer Elon Musk’s rocket had returned to Earth in one piece.

 TBILISI, (Reuters) – Georgia’s most powerful man won a parliamentary election on Saturday, according to early official results, a victory which opposition politicians refused to recognise, alleging “falsification”.

NOVI/KALAMAZOO, Michigan,  (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump appealed to Muslim voters in Michigan yesterday as Michelle Obama made an impassioned plea on behalf of Kamala Harris at the Democrat’s own rally in the battleground state.

DUBAI/JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Iran yesterday played down Israel’s overnight air attack against Iranian military targets, saying it caused only limited damage, as U.S.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Thousands of people took to the main avenue of downtown Lisbon yesterday to protest police violence, several days after a policeman shot a Cape Verde-born Portuguese resident, triggering a wave of unrest.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israeli forces withdrew from a hospital complex in northern Gaza yesterday, one day after storming it, and the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said the troops had detained dozens of male medical staffers and some of the patients.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China will take “countermeasures” to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity, the government said, lambasting a $2 billion arms sale package by the United States to Taiwan.

(Reuters) – Reuters News has restored to its website an investigation into mercenary hacking after a New Delhi court lifted a takedown order it issued last year.

NOVI, Michigan,  (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump appealed to Muslim voters in Michigan today as Michelle Obama prepared to join Kamala Harris at the Democrat’s own rally in the battleground state.

APIA, Samoa,  (Reuters) – Commonwealth leaders, ending a week-long summit in Samoa, said today the time had come for a discussion on whether Britain should commit to reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.

DUBAI/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel said it struck military sites in Iran early  today in retaliation for Tehran’s attacks on Israel earlier this month, the latest step in the escalating conflict between the heavily armed rivals.

CENTRAL ISLIP, New York, (Reuters) – Mike Jeffries, former longtime chief executive of Abercrombie & Fitch ANF.N,

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The local leader of a Venezuelan opposition party, Edwin Santos, was found dead yesterday morning, with government critics blaming the death on state security forces though the government has said he died in an accident.

(Reuters) – Moves by major U.S. fast-food chains to temporarily pull fresh onions off their menus on Thursday, after the vegetable was named as the likely source of an E.

(Reuters) – Nvidia NVDA.O dethroned Apple AAPL.O as the world’s most valuable company yesterday, following a record-setting rally in the stock powered by an insatiable demand for its new supercomputing AI chips.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – The Canadian government should have acted sooner to stem the flow of temporary migration into the country, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told Reuters yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A NASA astronaut was flown to a hospital with an unspecified medical issue yesterday shortly after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station, the U.S.