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By David Latona, Reuters People push shopping carts along a street covered in mud after flash floods ravaged Paiporta, in Valencia. Photo: JOSE JORDAN/AFP Rescue teams discovered the bodies of eight people who had been trapped in a garage after devastating flash floods hit eastern Spain, as the death toll in the Valencia region alone climbed to 155. Local authorities have not disclosed how many people are still unaccounted for after Europe's deadliest floods in years and Defence Minister Margarita Robles said the final national death toll could be much greater. Opposition politicians accused the central government in Madrid of acting too slowly to warn residents and send in rescue teams, prompting the Interior Ministry to say regional authorities were responsible for civil protection...

By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose for Reuters Union workers applaud at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada on 18 October for US Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen one day after she debated her opponent, Nevada Republican US Senate candidate Sam Brown. Photo: ETHAN MILLER / Getty Images via AFP With the US election days away, Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to secure the support of male volunteers in some labour unions whose phone calls and house visits are needed to get Democratic supporters out to vote, senior labour officials said. Most unions have long supported Democratic candidates, and both Harris and President Joe Biden have backed unions in contract negotiations and championed workers' rights. But Republican candidate Donald Trump, who was president from 2017-2021...

By Eric Cheung and Kathleen Magramo, CNN A car under an uprooted tree at New Taipei City, as Super Typhoon Kong-rey neared the coast in Taitung. Photo: CNA / AFP Heavy rains and high winds lashed Taiwan as the largest storm to hit the island in nearly three decades made landfall along its southeast coast, killing at least one person and injuring dozens. Typhoon Kong-rey packed winds approaching 200 kilometres per hour, equivalent to a Category 3 Atlantic hurricane, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC), as it made landfall in Taitung county on Friday morning. Kong-rey's radius of maximum wind - how far the strongest winds are from its centre - measured 320 kilometres on Thursday, meaning it is the largest storm to hit Taiwan since Typhoon Herb in 1996, said Chang Chun-...

With just days left before polls close in the United States presidential election, the race is expected to come down to just seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, where the result is on a knife edge, undercover police and extra security are being called in amid fears of voter intimidation from pro-Donald Trump activists. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is due in court on Friday (NZT) over his multimillion-dollar giveaway to swing voters. Follow all the action from the US presidential election with RNZ's liveblog: Source link