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Spain high-speed rail collision victims include several foreign nationals

The train disaster, one of Europe’s deadliest rail incidents this century, killed 69 people, including 54 Spaniards Four US citizens and one each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Czech Republic were among the 69 killed in last week’s high-speed train collision in Spain, authorities said. Wednesday’s disaster – one of Europe’s deadliest rail accidents this century – has seen victims’ relatives endure an agonising wait as forensics teams identify the dead, sometimes from individual body parts. Continue reading...

World· Developing

Abdullah Ocalan relocated to new island prison wing amid Turkish peace push

Turkey has moved the country’s Kurdish militant leader to a newly built part of an island prison where he has been incarcerated since 1999 as part of efforts to end decades of conflict, a senior Kurdish official said. Improving prison conditions for Abdullah Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has been a key Kurdish demand in the push to end the 42-year-long conflict between the militant group and Turkish authorities. Ocalan has been imprisoned in a penitentiary on the island...

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Bulgaria election exit polls project victory for acting president Iliana Iotova

Bulgaria’s acting president Iliana Iotova, who favours dialogue with Moscow and opposes military aid to Ukraine, won a presidential run-off vote on Sunday, exit polls showed. The vote took place amid security concerns in the European Union and Nato member following a series of drone attacks on commercial vessels in the Black Sea. The race for the largely ceremonial post pitted Iotova, an ally of Prime Minister Rumen Radev, against Andrey Gyurov, a banker and former caretaker prime minister...

Politics· Developing

US midterm elections set to decide control of Congress and 36 governorships

Voters in this year's elections will choose all 435 members of the House of Representatives, a third of our Senators, and 36 races for governor. Correspondent David Pogue looks at what midterm election results typically represent, and why – with inflation a key topic on voters' minds, and a historically unpopular president – this year's midterms may upend expectations.

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Ukraine evacuees return from occupied Oleshky after mediated ceasefire

Ukraine’s border with Belarus — Dmytro had not seen his wife Larisa for 1,711 days. He had been counting. Waiting near the border between Ukraine and Belarus, his nervous eyes were fixed on the horizon, looking for the bus carrying Larisa and others fleeing the occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky. When the couple, both 54, … The post Reunited after 1,711 days: Oleshky evacuees return to Ukraine under Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire appeared first on Egypt Independent.

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Iran continues diplomatic talks in Qatar to halt conflict with US and Israel

Nov 1 (Reuters) - Iranian negotiators were in Doha on Sunday for a third consecutive day of talks with Qatari mediators aimed at pushing for a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran, an official briefed on the discussions told Reuters. The talks come amid concerns that the conflict could escalate again after the November 3 US midterm elections. President Donald Trump has said the United States will not launch new attacks on Iran before the vote and that talks with Tehran have been productive, though he has not ruled out further military action thereafter.

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