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Harris holds 46%-43% lead over Trump amid voter gloom, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

(Reuters) WASHINGTON, Oct 22 – Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris held a marginal 46% to 43% lead over Republican former President Donald Trump, with a glum electorate saying the country is on the wrong track, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Harris’ lead in the six-day poll, which closed on Monday, differed little from her 45% to 42% advantage over […]

A million children in Pakistan miss polio vaccine shots as cases spike

CNN — Polio is once again spreading in Pakistan, where officials say more than 1 million children missed their vaccination doses last month, underscoring the challenges they face in eradicating one of the world’s most intractable diseases. Pakistani officials reported more than a dozen new polio cases in October, bringing the total number of infections this year to 39, compared […]

Russians accused of crimes offered choice – go to war instead of court

BBC: At about 06:45 on 28 March, police arrived at Andrey Perlov’s house near Novosibirsk in Siberia. They accused him of stealing about three million roubles ($32,000; £24,000) from a Novosibirsk football club where he was the managing director – he and his family deny this. Perlov, who is 62, is an Olympic gold medallist, […]

Lebanon says 13 killed in Israeli strike near southern Beirut hospital

BBC: At least 13 people, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli air strike near Lebanon’s largest public hospital in southern Beirut, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Another 57 people were injured, seven critically, when at least three buildings about 50m (160ft) from Rafik Hariri University hospital were destroyed in the Jnah […]

Russians feared dead after plane shot down in Sudan

BBC: Russia’s embassy in Sudan has said it is investigating reports that a cargo plane with Russian crew was shot down in Darfur, a key battle ground in the civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The aircraft, identified as a Russian-made lyushin Il-76, was on a mission to deliver […]

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མི་རྗེ་བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཕྱི་འབྲེལ་བློན་པོ་དང་མཇལ་ཕྲད།

སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་ ༢༡ ལུ་ མི་རྗེ་བློན་ཆེན་ དྲགོས་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཕྱི་འབྲེལ་བློན་པོ་ ཌོག་ཊར་ཨེཛ་ ཇ་ཡེ་ཤང་ཀར་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཇལ་ཕྲད་མཛད་དེ་ ཟུང་ཕྱོགས་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ གནད་དོན་ཚུ་གི་སྐོར་ལས་ གསུང་གྲོས་གནང་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ ས་གོ་ཚུ་ཡང་ གསར་འཚོལ་མཛད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ བརྗེ་སོར་འབད་མི་ གཙོ་རིམ་ཚུ་དང་ མ་འོངས་གོང་འཕེལ་གྱི་ དམིགས་གཏད་བསྐྱེད་དེ་ཨིན་པའི་ གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

How scammers duped India job seekers with a fake bank

BBC: A few weeks ago, police in India discovered that scammers had set up a fake bank branch – complete with a logo, office furniture and even some employees – in a village in Chhattisgarh state. BBC Hindi pieced together what happened. Jyoti Yadav was delighted when she got a job as an office assistant […]

Aboriginal protester arrested during King’s Sydney tour

BBC: An Aboriginal protester has been arrested at the Sydney Opera House as crowds await a glimpse of the King and Queen on the final day of their tour in Australia. Throngs of people have packed the harbourside forecourt, where the royal couple are due to visit on Tuesday afternoon. Wayne Wharton, a prominent Indigenous […]

UK to boost Ukraine funding using £2bn from Russian assets

BBC: The UK government will give an extra £2.26bn ($2.93bn) to Ukraine, using the profits from seized Russian assets held in Europe. It forms Britain’s contribution to a £38bn ($50bn) fund announced in June by members of the G7 group of leading economies. Defence Secretary John Healey said the new money will help Ukraine bolster its frontline […]

Ex-president of Peru gets 20 years for corruption

BBC: A court in Peru has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in jail for corruption and money-laundering. Prosecutors say he took $35m (£27m) in bribes from a Brazilian construction company which was awarded a contract to build a road in southern Peru. Toledo, 78, was in office between 2001 […]