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The race heats up just days before the run-off between the left-wing incumbent and his right-wing challenger. Polls suggest the two candidates are neck and neck and the televised debate was hailed as a chance for both to sway undecided voters. But the showdown was marked by personal attacks and analysts have warned that its aggressive tone may increase the abstention rate further. In the first round of voting, held.

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Polling suggests most Albertans favour remaining part of the country, although the debate alone has proven divisive. WATCH: The father and son on opposite sides of Alberta’s separation referendum People in the province of Alberta head to the polls on Monday to decide whether to hold a referendum at a later date on separating from Canada. The vote was called earlier this year by the leader of the province, Danielle.

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Researchers travelled to a remote Pacific Island to confirm whether an object first spotted on satellite imagery in 2020 solved the mystery of the pilot's disappearance. The team travelled to a lagoon in the Taraia Peninsula on Nikumaroro, Kiribati, to confirm whether a shiny object first spotted on satellite imagery in 2020 solved the decades-long mystery of the pioneering pilot's disappearance. But Purdue University, which has a leading role in.

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The number of people helped by the UN agency in the Palestinian territory will drop by about a third - from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. Image caption, Dalal al-Dahdouh said the WFP food handouts her family received were insufficient even before the cuts One of the main suppliers of food aid to the Gaza Strip, the World Food Programme (WFP), says that it is being forced to "drastically reduce.

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Political tension grips France after rioting marred protests over the cost of living and struggling public services, Katya Adler writes. On Saturday over half a million mainly peaceful protesters demonstrated against rising living costs and dwindling access to decent public services, including a good state education. But the protests turned nasty after groups of black-clad, masked activists and vandals appeared. An estimated 1,500 shops and businesses were looted and destroyed.

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Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie faces 191 murder charges - all but one of them children. Mackenzie and 29 of his followers are being charged with the murder of 191 people, all but one of them children. His cult is alleged to have forced children to starve to death so that they could "meet Jesus". His doomsday doctrine said that education was forbidden and modern medicine was considered "evil". Mackenzie and.