Mozambique Fearing spillover effects from post-election violence in Mozambique, South Africa closed its main border crossing with its eastern neighbor at Lebombo.Mozambique's independent presidential …

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Coming Up This Week The U.S. votes in a general election tomorrow. Judging by early voting - with around 75 million ballots cast already - turnout is likely to be high, at 60-66%.Saturday is the 35th …

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Ukraine The Pentagon assessed that there are now 8,000 North Korean troops in Russia's Kursk region poised to cross into Ukraine.Pres. Zelensky is frustrated that his allies have had "zero" response …

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Ukraine The NYT wrote that Pres. Zelensky's failure to win Western support for his victory plan "could lead to a kind of success, allowing the president to show Ukrainians that he has done all he can …

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Coming Up This Week The Big Five tech companies - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft - all report quarterly earnings this week, starting tomorrow.Botswana votes for president on Wednesday. …

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Gaza U.S. diplomats are hopeful that there's still a window to secure a Gaza ceasefire / hostage release deal following the death of Hamas's antagonistic leader, Yahya Sinwar.CIA Director Burns is tr …

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