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Jordan holds parliamentary elections with spotlight on Gaza, economic woes

Jordanians head to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the first parliamentary elections since reforms aimed at modernising the government were passed in 2022. Voters say they are concerned about unemployment amid a decline in tourism and are consumed by the war in Gaza, which the prime minister said…

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US actor James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader and CNN, dies at 93

US Actor James Earl Jones, most famous as the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, has died at home at the age of 93.

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Fuel tanker explosion in Nigeria kills dozens

In tonight's edition, a fuel tanker collides head on with a truck carrying passengers and cattle in northern Nigeria, killing at least 48 people. Also, at least four people died off the coast of Senegal after their boat sank as they tried to get to Europe. And eight thousand churches…

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The Trump effect: How much does populism drive policy?

As Europe waits on France to form a government, as the world waits on the US to pick a president, who drives the agenda? In the wake of the January 6th 2021 storming of the US Capitol, the rest of the world thought there is no way Americans would ever…

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EU relies too much on the US and other military suppliers abroad, report says

The European Union is failing to invest enough in military projects and relying too much on the US and other countries, according to a landmark report released Monday. Almost two-thirds of the EU's defense orders between mid-2022 and mid-2023 were placed with US companies, with another 15 percent going to…

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Paralympic closing ceremony: ‘Huge', 'fast' and ‘amazing’, artists say

Fresh from her performance at the Stade de France, award winning electronic artist Irene Dresel joins us this week on Arts24 to share her impressions of the 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony and how she's looking forward to touring her recent album "Rose Fluo". We also speak to French guitarist Waxx…

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Speed limit on vital Paris ring road falls to 50km per hour on October 1

The speed limit on the ring road that surrounds and delineates the city of Paris will be limited to 50 kilometres (30 miles) per hour starting on October 1, the city's mayor announced on Monday. The decision, which immediately drew criticism for having been taken "unilaterally", is facing pushback from…

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Local journalism in crisis amid growing polarisation in US

The decline of local journalism in the United States is becoming a more pressing issue by the day. Since 2005, the country has lost more than 2,500 newspapers and 43,000 journalists, primarily due to a drop in revenue from advertising amid strong online competition. More than 200 counties in the…

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Chile’s Palestino soccer club captures local Palestinian community's pride and grief

Chile's legendary Club Deportivo Palestino is a place for the world's largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East to connect with their ancestral home, thousands of miles away. As the war in the Gaza war rages, the club's game atmosphere and political stunts have increasingly drawn upon a fierce sense…

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Google faces new antitrust trial over advertising tech business

A new antitrust trial for Google parent Alphabet gets underway, this time over its ad services following a judge's ruling last month that its search engine business is a monopoly. Also in this edition, France asks the EU for more time to deliver a plan to reduce its budget deficits…

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Pope Francis speaks out against ‘every kind of abuse’ of children in East Timor visit

Pope Francis spoke out against child sexual abuse during his visit to East Timor on Monday, indirectly acknowledging a long-running abuse scandal involving independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo. Thousands of devotees journeyed from remote areas and crossed the Indonesian border to witness the first papal visit since the country…

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Curtain is drawn on Paris Paralympics, ending French capital's Olympic summer

The Paris 2024 Games came to a close just like they started, in the rain, but amid a festive atmosphere with an electro-party at the Stade de France on Sunday to conclude the Paralympics – and put an end to six weeks of thrilling sport in the French capital.

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Algeria's President Tebboune elected for second term in landslide win

Algeria's incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been re-elected with more than 94% of the vote, the country's electoral authority said Sunday, five years after pro-democracy protests precipitated the fall of his predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

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Morocco’s El Idrissi wraps up Paris Paralympics with marathon world record

Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi of Morocco set a new world record in the women’s marathon for runners with visual impairments as the Paris Paralympics wrapped up on Sunday with China topping the medals table, ahead of Britain and the United States.

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Le Pen denies playing a part in Macron's choice of Barnier as French PM

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday said she played no part in the appointment of veteran conservative Michel Barnier as French PM, denying media reports that she assured President Emmanuel Macron her party would not back a no-confidence motion to topple the incoming premier.

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Three Israelis killed in shooting at West Bank-Jordan border crossing

A gunman crossing from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians on Sunday at the Allenby Bridge border between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said, in what appeared to be an attack linked to the 11-month-old war in Gaza. The assailant was killed in a shootout with Israeli security forces.

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Sporting a feathered headdress, Pope Francis finds 'Eden' in Papua New Guinea

Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church of the peripheries. While 90 percent of Papua New Guinea's 12 million residents call themselves Christian, religion sits longside a panoply of local beliefs, customs and rites – some of which spark…

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Hezbollah fires rockets, Israel strikes after attack kills Lebanese emergency workers

Hezbollah announced retaliatory rocket fire targeting a town in northern Israel early Sunday in response to an Israeli attack that killed three civil defence personnel in the country's south. The Iran-backed Lebanese movement has exchanged near-daily fire with Israeli forces in support of ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group's…

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Algeria's Tebboune expected to breeze to a second term in election

Voting stations across Algeria closed Saturday night after an hour's extension for the presidential election expected to bring a second term for incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The country's election authority said that vote counting so far suggested voter turnout was 48% in Algeria and 19.6% for precincts abroad.

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French delight as hosts beat Argentina to Paralympic gold in blind football

Hosts France defeated Argentina in a penalty shootout on Saturday to win their maiden Paralympic gold medal in blind football, sparking boisterous celebrations at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris.

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US and UK spy chiefs praise Ukraine for 'audacious' Russia incursion

The heads of the CIA and Britain's spy service said in an op-ed on Saturday that "staying the course" in backing Ukraine's fight against Russia was more important than ever as they warned that the world order was "under threat in a way we haven't seen since the Cold War".

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Algeria presidential election sees low turnout as Tebboune poised for victory

Less than half of Algeria's eligible voters cast a ballot in the country's presidential poll, preliminary figures from electoral authorities showed early Sunday, despite incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune's hopes for a high turnout.

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French protesters rage at ‘stolen election’ as Macron picks conservative Barnier for PM

Two months after snap parliamentary elections that threw France into political turmoil, tens of thousands of left-wing demonstrators rallied in central Paris on Saturday in protest at French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to name conservative Michel Barnier as prime minister in what they termed a “power grab” and a “stolen…

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Disabled journalist speaks about the legacy of the 2024 Paralympics

Organisers hoped the Paris Paralympics would set the new standard in terms of access, inclusion and media coverage. Tunisian journalists Besma Essoussi, who is almost completely blind, and Sarra Fourti spoke about their experiences covering the Games and how Los Angeles can aim even higher for 2028.

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How Russia spread a fake rumour about Kamala Harris and a hit-and-run

A fake news report posted online in early September by a fake news site claims that presidential candidate Kamala Harris was responsible for a hit-and-run back in 2011 that left a young girl in a wheelchair. Pro-Russian and pro-Trump social media accounts have been widely circulating a video featuring the…

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