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By Stephen Collinson, CNN Photo: AFP / SAUL LOEB Analysis - Donald Trump is invoking a vision of an extreme new White House term that would transform America and rock the world. And Vice President Kamala Harris has only three weeks to avert it, as she struggles to restore momentum in a neck-and-neck race to Election Day. The Republican nominee is escalating the most toxic anti-immigrant rhetoric in modern US history, warning outsiders with "bad genes" have "invaded" the country after falsely claiming that Haitian migrants here legally were eating pets in Ohio. At a rally in Arizona on Sunday, Trump baselessly suggested that if Harris were elected, "the entire country will be turned into a migrant camp". In Colorado two days earlier, he again vowed to "begin the largest deportation o...

Chris Penk: "the only 'clause' that you'll have to deal with for a while is Santa!" Photo: VNP / Phil Smith Acting Defence Minister Chris Penk has made a statement in Parliament about the HMNZS Manawanui's sinking, and answered questions from other politicians - but rejected some as being "premature". He has rejected suggestions Defence Minister Judith Collins' response had been "dismissive" or that relations with Samoa had been damaged, committed to making the court of inquiry process public "to the greatest extent possible", and shut down questions about the overall cost. Penk stood to make the statement on Tuesday, the first sitting day in Parliament since the ship listed on Saturday 5 October and went beneath the waves the following day, opening the matter for questions and statemen...

By Harry Pearl and Harlyne Joku, BenarNews Local villagers hold a placard as they participate in a gathering near the Porgera Gold Mine in Enga province, Papua New Guinea on 23 September 2024, almost one week after police reinforcements were rushed to the area in a bid to quell tribal violence that shuttered the key gold mine Photo: AFP Papua New Guinea security personnel shot six people - one fatally - and arrested dozens of illegal miners in an operation to crackdown on lawlessness in the country's volatile highlands region, police said. Authorities deployed additional officers and authorised the use of lethal force last month to quell fighting between illegal miners and landowners in the area surrounding the Porgera gold mine in Enga province. Chairman of the Porgera Landowners As...

By Nectar Gan, CNN Qing Bao in her habitat at Dujiangyan Base in Sichuan, China. Photo: AFP - Roshan Patel / Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Two giant pandas are on their way from China to Washington's National Zoo, kicking off a much-awaited return of the beloved bears to the American capital. Bao Li and Qing Bao, both 3-years-old, have left the giant panda research base in Dujiangyan, a city near the bears' native habitat in the mountains of southwest China. They boarded a specially chartered FedEx Boeing 777 cargo jet dubbed the "Panda Express" early Tuesday morning (local time) and took off for Washington. "We have prepared corn buns, bamboo shoots, carrots, water, and medicine to ensure the pandas' needs are met during the flight," the China Wildli...

Photo: AFP / SAUL LOEB Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Republican rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Monday night over the former president's comment that the US military should handle "the enemy from within" on Election Day. It was the latest example of Harris' campaign drawing sharper distinctions with Trump in the presidential race's closing weeks, using the former president's own words and those of his former aides to cast him as dangerous and unstable. In Erie on Monday, Harris highlighted Trump's comments Sunday on Fox News, when he said he isn't worried about his supporters' actions on Election Day. "I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within," he said. "We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics," Trump told Fox News' Maria Bart...