Tropical Storm Rafael chugged toward the Cayman Islands on Tuesday and was forecast to strengthen into a hurricane en route to Cuba. The storm was located 105 miles (170 kilometers) southwest of Kingston, Jamaica, early Tuesday. It had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph) and was moving northwest at 13 mph (20 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
With sacred chants, ringing of bells and offerings of flowers and bananas, a Hindu priest in Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India conducted prayers for her victory on Tuesday, hours after she and her opponent Donald Trump closed out their campaigns. The temple ceremony in Thulasendrapuram, in the state of Tamil Nadu, was organised by local villagers and attended by more than a dozen of them and a few tourists. Harris' maternal grandfather P.V. Gopalan was born more than a century ago in Thulasendrapuram before migrating to the state capital Chennai.
Key swing states, such as Michigan and Wisconsin, are expected to see gusty winds and rainfall as the front pushes eastward.
The main political ally of longstanding Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that a constitutional amendment should be considered to allow the president to run again in elections set for 2028. After his re-election last year, Erdogan is serving his last term as president unless parliament calls an early election, according to the constitution. "Wouldn't it be a natural and right choice to have our president elected once again if terror is eradicated, and if a heavy blow is dealt to inflation and Turkey secures political and economic stability," said Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which is allied with Erdogan's ruling AK Party (AKP).
After years of protests, court battles and even picketing, Klamath tribes are able to return to a restored river.
Four million Georgians have already voted in record early turnout, but canvassers aren't satisfied yet.
Whatever the outcome of Tuesday's election, Donald Trump will leave behind a changed Republican Party.
Wyoming, a conservative stronghold, enters Election Day with Republican infighting and shifts in the state's conservative power.
Qataris went to the polls on Tuesday in a referendum on ending a brief and limited experiment with legislative elections in the wealthy monarchy.The Qatari establishment appeared confident of the result of Tuesday's referendum, the first in more than 20 years, which coincides with US presidential elections on the same day.
If voters choose Trump, he will not moderate, according to those who know him best. Instead, he’ll view his improbable comeback as a mandate to govern on the radical agenda he campaigned on.
Donald Trump is still a billionaire, but his net worth has fluctuated sharply this year along with the value of one of his main investments.
State election officials stress that certifying elections is a ministerial function — local election officials are duty-bound to certify results, and that it is not optional.
On the quiet streets of an Oslo suburb, electric vehicles are parked in nearly every other driveway as Norway speeds towards its goal of becoming the first country free of fossil fuel-powered cars.- A-ha takes on EVs - Electric cars have also long benefited from other special privileges, like exemptions from city tolls and free parking in public car parks.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Tuesday he was "fully confident" the country would hit its economic goals this year, lauding recent stimulus measures and suggesting there was still room for more.The premier, who has official responsibility for economic policy, suggested that authorities still had room to manoeuvre when it came to further measures.
For those looking for a change of pace from the hustle and bustle of Kathmandu, Gokarna Forest Resort offers a serene retreat just a stone’s throw from the Nepalese capital.
American voters deliver their verdict Tuesday after an extraordinarily turbulent election that will either make Kamala Harris the first woman president in US history or deliver Donald Trump a comeback that sends shockwaves around the world.- History made - A Trump comeback would be historic -- the first non-consecutive second term for a US president since Grover Cleveland in 1893 and just the second ever.
Energy giant Saudi Aramco reported a 15 percent year-on-year drop in third quarter profit on Tuesday, citing low oil prices.But its profits dropped by a quarter last year because of lower oil prices and production cuts.
The toxic smog season in India's capital has just begun, but those unable to escape cancer-causing poisonous fumes say the hazardous impact on health is already taking its toll.Piecemeal government efforts to mitigate the smog, such as a public campaign encouraging drivers to turn off their engines at traffic lights, have failed to make an impact.
It's been a stranger than fiction 12 months, with courtroom drama, an assassin's bullet, a new Democratic candidate and shockingly tight polls.
Police in Germany on Tuesday arrested eight suspected members of a far-right militant organization, Germany's public prosecutor said. The suspects, some of them minors and adolescents, were allegedly part of a group of around 15-20 individuals called Sächsische Separatisten, or Saxonian Separatists, that is characterized by racist, antisemitic and partially apocalyptic ideas, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. "Its members are united in a profound rejection of the liberal democratic order and believe that Germany is nearing ‘collapse,’" the statement said.
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