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US President Joe Biden warns that Republican candidate Donald Trump could refuse to accept the outcome o the election. Photo: TANNEN MAURY / AFP US President Joe Biden says he is confident the upcoming presidential election will be fairly conducted, but he warned that Republican candidate Donald Trump and his running mate could refuse to accept the outcome. "I'm confident it will be free and fair. I don't know whether it will be peaceful. The things that Trump has said, and the things that he said last time out, when he didn't like the outcome of the election, were very dangerous," Biden said. Biden said it was notable that Trump's running mate, US Senator JD Vance, would not confirm during this week's vice presidential debate that he would accept the outcome of the vote next month. Tru...

People wait for a food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycée Marie Jeanne in Port-au-Prince. Photo: AFP / CLARENS SIFFROY Some 3,000 flee Pont-Sonde as international support lags Over 700,000 displaced, more than 5 million face severe hunger Gang leader says attack intended to worsen food crisis No progress on justice for massacres in recent years Armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang killed at least 70 people, including three infants, and forced at least 3000 to flee as they swept through a Haitian town shooting automatic rifles at residents, the United Nations (UN) says. "We are horrified by Thursday's gang attacks in the town of Pont-Sonde in Haiti's Artibonite department," UN spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said in a statement. At least another 16 people we...

A handout picture provided by the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's office shows him speaking during the Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran on 4 October, 2024. Photo: AFP / Handout / Khamenei.IR Iran's supreme leader has vowed in a rare address that his allies around the region would keep fighting Israel, as he defended his country's missile strike on its foe. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's address in Tehran follows Iran's second ever direct attack on Israel. It was also the first since exchanges of fire between Tehran-backed Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops escalated into full-blown war in Lebanon. Speaking ahead of the first anniversary of Hamas's 7 October attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, Khamenei defended the Palestinian group's "logical and legal"...

Mase Mahonri Schwalger was appointed as head coach of Manu Samoa in late March. Photo: Lakapi Samoa Mase Mahonri Schwalger has been suspended as Manu Samoa head coach after criminal charges were filed against him. Mase was charged in September with unlawful sexual connection, attempted sexual violation, sexual conduct with a person under 16, indecent assault and common assault. He was released on bail and will appear in court in Samoa on 4 November. The former national rugby team captain, who played professional rugby in New Zealand, was appointed as head coach of Manu Samoa in late March. In a statement released on Friday, Lakapi Samoa said he had been suspended, "effective immediately". "The suspension, resolved by the Board on 30 September 2024, will be reviewed in three months." Mas...

By Kanishka Singh, Timour Azhari and Ari Rabinovitch Residents inspect the damage following Israeli airstrikes on the Mreijeh neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on 4 October, 2024. Photo: AFP Residents inspect the damage following Israeli airstrikes on the Mreijeh neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on 4 October, 2024. An Israeli strike on Friday morning near Lebanon's Masnaa border crossing with Syria cut off a road used by hundreds of thousands of people to flee Israeli bombardments in recent days, Lebanon Transport Minister Ali Hamieh told Reuters. Hamieh said the strike hit inside Lebanese territory near the border crossing, creating a four-metre (12 feet) wide crater. An Israel Defence Forces (IDF) military spokesman had accused Iran-backed Lebanese armed group H...