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Guardian's world affairs editor, author of The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt

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    Dear God let this be a good sign

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  2. 11 hours ago

    State Dept says that Russia missed a 90-day deadline to prove it doesn't have a chemical weapon programme in the wake of the novichok attack, and will now face new sanctions..

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  3. 11 hours ago

    As the mid-term results come in through the night, follow the team spread across the country, and the DC team and

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    11 hours ago

    Most important issue facing the country? Healthcare 41% Immigration 23% Economy 21% Gun policy 11% Good news for Democrats, who have been hammering away on healthcare.

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    13 hours ago

    Zogby: "For Democrats and Republicans, this is Armageddon. If the other side wins, this is the end of the United States as we know it. This is how it's being framed."

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    14 hours ago

    UK arms to Saudi Arabia: Amnesty International to intervene in fresh legal challenge

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    16 hours ago

    Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian oligarch who bought a Florida mansion from Trump for $95 million, and a New York condo for $88 million, has been arrested in Monaco on corruption charges.

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    15 hours ago

    Why is Manuel Oliver riding a motorcycle to the polls to fast his first vote as a US citizen? Because his 17 year old son Joaquin, who was shot to death at school in February, “thought motorcycles are a badass thing. I’m going to honor him that way.”

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    15 hours ago

    . Manuel Oliver, who lost his son Joaquin at the Parkland shool shooting, is voting for the first time today as a US citizen. He’s casting his vote for his son, who would have been 18 and voting today. Driving a motorcycle to the polls.

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    16 hours ago

    "Our god is stronger". reports on how (often Brazilian) evangelical missionaries are undermining traditional beliefs in Guinea-Bissau

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    19 hours ago

    A recurring theme in GOP attack ads this year: Jewish Democratic candidates clutching fistfuls of cash.

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    18 hours ago

    One of my grand uncles was mobilized in 1918 when he was 19 and severely injured, mobilized again in 1939 and killed in 1940. Let’s defend the EU!

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    18 hours ago

    “Hi, my name is Kelly, and I’m with March for Our Lives....” Parkland students phone banking to get out the vote in Florida.

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    18 hours ago

    'The most intellectual creature to ever walk Earth is destroying its only home' The great Jane Goodall writes for the Guardian's Age of Extinction series.

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    Nov 5

    As a way into understanding the war in Yemen - "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now" - and the UK's role in it, this podcast by , and Ahmed is excellent: clear and sobering

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    19 hours ago

    Hey, remember that viral video of a baby bear climbing up a snowy cliff to its mother? It's not a life-affirming tale of persistence. The bears were fleeing from the drone that was filming and harassing them.

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    19 hours ago

    French interior ministry says this is a far right plot...

    Six people have been arrested in France over a suspected plot to attack President Emmanuel Macron
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    Nov 5

    The Trump Administration has talked a lot about Iran since Friday. Two Mnuchin/Pompeo pressers, Pompeo on the Sunday shows, a Hook presser, written guidance, and some gross social media. But all that rhetoric has left key questions unanswered.

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    Nov 5

    Bizarrely and disturbingly, Beijing just granted Ivanka Trump's fashion brand approval for 16 new trademarks in China, including one for "voting machines." Yep, you read that right. Voting machines.

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    Nov 5

    Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro & Kosovo will sign today a new plan to help find and identify missing persons from 1990s wars. There are still 12,000 people who have not been accounted for & the work must continue, director says.

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