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The Colorado Department of Agriculture said that all subsamples from multiple lots of McDonald's brand fresh and frozen beef patties had tested negative for E. coli. Photo: SCOTT OLSON / AFP McDonald's on Sunday ruled out beef patties as a source of the E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder hamburgers, which has killed at least one person and sickened nearly 75 others. "We remain very confident that any contaminated product related to this outbreak has been removed from our supply chain and is out of all McDonald's restaurants," the fast-food chain's Chief supply chain officer Cesar Pina said in a statement. The Colorado Department of Agriculture said that all subsamples from multiple lots of McDonald's brand fresh and frozen beef patties had tested negative for E. coli, adding tha...

By Steve Holland, Jeff Mason and James Oliphant for Reuters US comedian Tony Hinchcliffe speaks during a campaign rally for former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on 27 October 2024. Photo: ANGELA WEISS / AFP Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was set to lead a rally at New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday local time that began with a series of vulgar and racist remarks by allies of the former president. Trump, a New York celebrity for decades, hoped to use the event at the iconic venue known for Knicks basketball games and Billy Joel concerts to deliver his closing argument against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, even though the state last backed a Republican presidential candidate in 1984. "I...

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: AFP / GIL COHEN-MAGEN By Ari Rabinovitch and Adam Makary, Reuters Israel's airstrikes "hit hard" Iran's defences and missile production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the country is considering its response. With warfare raging in Gaza and Lebanon, direct confrontation between Israel and Iran risks spiralling into a regional conflagration. But a day after the airstrikes, there was no sign they would spark another round of escalation. However, heavy fighting in Lebanon between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah, which sharply intensified over recent weeks, continued on Sunday (local time) with an Israeli airstrike killing eight people in a residential block in Sidon, med...

By Sophie Tanno, CNN This handout photograph released by Kensington Palace on October 25, 2024, shows Britain's Princess Diana (C) with her 11-year-old son William (R), now Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales during one of his first visits to homelessness charity, The Passage in London, taken on December 14, 1993. - "Prince William: We Can End Homelessness" – a two-part documentary series which follows the first year of The Prince’s Homewards programme will be shown on ITV on Wednesday October, 30 and Thursday, 31 October 2024. Photo: THE PASSAGE / AFP Prince William has opened up about how a powerful childhood experience with his brother and late mother helped shape his work in combating homelessness. In the Prince of Wales' forthcoming documentary, Prince William: We Can End...