Protests over Spain flood response interrupt king’s visit to stricken Valencia suburb

PAIPORTA (Pakistan Post) – Hundreds of residents of a Valencia suburb badly hit by last week’s deadly floods protested on Sunday during a visit by Spanish King Felipe, Queen Letizia, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with some throwing mud at them. Chanting “Murderers, murderers!” they vented pent-up anger over what has been widely perceived by […]

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Volcanic eruption burns houses in Indonesia, killing at least 9 people

MAUMERE, Indonesia — Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least nine people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores.Authorities raised the danger level and widened the danger zone for Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki on Monday, following a series of eruptions that began last week. The […]

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Harris and Trump will both make a furious last-day push before Election Day

WASHINGTON— A presidential campaign that has careened through a felony trial, an incumbent president being pushed off the ticket and multiple assassination attempts comes down to a final push across a handful of states on the eve of Election Day. Kamala Harris will spend all of Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes offer the […]

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Puerto Rico prepares for Election Day as a third-party candidate makes history

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The two parties that have dominated Puerto Rican politics for decades are losing their grip as they face the stiffest competition yet from a younger generation fed up with the island’s corruption, chronic power outages and mismanagement of public funds. For the first time in the island’s governor’s race, a […]

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Tether CEO denies probe from US federal investigators

 Tether CEO Paolo Adroino said on Friday that there was “no indication” that the cryptocurrency firm was under any investigation after a media report that the federal government was probing the company. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the federal government was investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules, citing […]

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Zelenskiy rejects UN chief’s plan to visit Kyiv over Russia trip

KYIV (PAKISTAN POST) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected a plan for the UN Secretary General to visit Kyiv due to Antonio Guterres’s attendance at this week’s BRICS summit in Russia, a Ukrainian official said on Friday. Kyiv was enraged by Guterres’s appearance at the event in the city of Kazan on Thursday and […]

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With green camo and combat boots, Indonesia’s new cabinet kicks off army retreat

JAKARTA (PAKISTAN POST) – Wearing military fatigues and black combat boots, the newly-appointed cabinet of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto began a mountain retreat on Friday, in an unconventional bonding exercise involving more than 100 members of his new government. Ministers and their deputies donned caps and camouflage outfits and stood in salute at a parade […]

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Austrian chancellor sees long and rocky road ahead in coalition talks

VIENNA (PAKSITAN POST) – The road ahead in coalition talks between Austria’s two main centrist parties will be long and most likely “very rocky” at times, conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who is leading the talks, said on Friday as they began. The far-right Freedom Party (FPO) won last month’s parliamentary election for the first time […]

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US October nonfarm payrolls seen taking a hit from striking aerospace, hotel workers

WASHINGTON (PAKISTAN POST) – U.S. nonfarm payrolls in October could be reduced by as many as 41,000 jobs amid strikes in the aerospace manufacturing industry and at three hotel chains, government data showed on Friday. The Labor Department’s monthly strike report showed 33,000 Boeing employees were idle at the planemaker’s plants in California, Oregon and […]

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NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from space station

WASHINGTON (PAKISTAN POST) – A NASA astronaut was flown to a hospital with an unspecified medical issue on Friday shortly after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station, the US space agency said. The astronaut, who NASA did not name for privacy reasons, had splashed down off Florida’s coast […]

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