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The Washington Post

Ukraine’s new ‘The Bachelor’ season shows the scars of war

Strict wartime curfews, rolling power cuts, and 40 per cent of the camera and lights team drafted to fight: The producers of Ukraine’s The Bachelor have a lot to contend with.

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US presidential hopeful Vice President Kamala Harris has landed one of her biggest celebrity endorsements yet: appearing on the long-running US TV show Saturday Night Live opposite the woman who sends her up. 
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US Politics
Max Corstorphan

What will the VP’s Saturday Night Live appearance achieve?

Harris appeared opposite the comedian who’s sent her up for the past five years in the dying days of the US election. But can it be used to swing what she really needs — votes?

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The Conservatives' Kemi Badenoch is the first Black woman to lead a major British political party. (AP PHOTO)
World
Staff Writers

Conservatives pick UK's’ first Black female leader

Kemi Badenoch, a self-described enemy of wokeness, has won the race to become the new leader of Britain's Conservative Party following the party's crushing defeat in July led by Rishi Sunak, the worst election result since 1832.

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Donald Trump spoke at a campaign event with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. (AP PHOTO)
US Politics
Adriana Gomez Licon

‘Guns are trained on her face’: Trump threat to Harris supporter

Donald Trump has attacked a woman who has played a key role in Kamala Harris’ campaign by branding her a ‘war hawk’ who should have guns ‘trained on her face’.

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Elon Musk promises to give $US1m daily to someone who signed a free speech and gun rights petition. (AP PHOTO)
US Politics
Staff Writers

Big Elon Musk win in $1m voter giveaway

Elon Musk has secured a huge win in his controversial $1 million cash giveaway to voters ahead of the November 5 US presidential election.

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Rachel Reeves launched the biggest tax hikes since 1993 to try to repair the UK's public services. (EPA PHOTO)
UK
Muvija M and William Schomberg

UK treasurer hints at more plans after biggest tax increases since 1993

After a budget of big tax increases and borrowing, Britain's finance minister insists her government has more in the cupboard to help rev the UK's slow economy.

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Australia’s Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd is under fire over the timing of his decision to take leave days out from the US election.
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World
Latika M Bourke

Rudd on leave to flog new book days out from US election

EXCLUSIVE: The former Labor PM’s decision to take leave from his day job to boost book sales has prompted questions at home given the critical timing in the US.

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Hicksville: No banjos but there is some frustration in the Ohio town’s residents.
World
David Woiwod

Hicksville, a town seeking Deliverance from empty politics

DAVID WOIWOD: Hicksville, Ohio, is a delightfully modern, welcoming and generous city. Not a banjo in sight. But there’s definitely frustrations.

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Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street.
World
PAN PYLAS and JILL LAWLESS

Britain’s red dawn as Labour budget delivers $79b tax bomb

British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has delivered the UK’s biggest overall tax increase in more than three decades.

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Cargo ships in the Singapore Strait waiting to dock..
Business
The Economist

Why Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options

The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks.

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Floods of muddy water tumbled vehicles down streets amid torrential rain in Valencia, Spain. (AP PHOTO)
World
Digital Staff

At least 63 dead in devastating flash floods in Spain

The natural disaster has swept away cars, turned village streets into rivers and disrupted rail lines and highways.

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Springfield, Ohio, has been in firm focus after Donald Trump’s comments during the US presidential debate.
Politics
David Woiwod

Welcome to the town where ‘they’re eating the pets’

DAVID WOIWOD: There are at least 35 towns named Springfield across America. But this one has taken an outsized role in the US election.

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Vice President Kamala Harris gives her closing argument to a rally in Washington.
US Politics
Max Corstorphan

‘I’m not perfect’: Harris’ admission at vital campaign rally

Vice President Kamala Harris has made a rare admission while speaking to Americans voters in the final days of the US election.

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Radiator repairman Steve’s front lawn display betrays his political leanings.
World
David Woiwod

The county that’s picked every president for over 20 years

DAVID WOIWOD: Welcome to America’s ‘swingiest’ electorate, where its 30,000 residents say they ‘can see into the future’.

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Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appears before lawmakers at the Senate in Manila over his war on drugs.
World
Jim Gomez

Ex-Philippine president Duterte’s ‘death squad’ admission

The nation’s former leader is facing an inquiry over claims he authorised police to gun down thousands of suspects in a bloody drug crackdown.

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