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Debris piled up along a street in the town of Paiporta after the flash floods. Photo: AFP/JOSE JORDAN By Rosa Sulliero and Wafaa Essalhi, AFP Rescuers on Friday raised the death toll in Spain's worst floods for a generation to 205 as the government deployed more troops in an increasingly desperate search for survivors. The floods that have tossed vehicles, collapsed bridges and covered towns with mud since Tuesday are the European country's deadliest such disaster in decades. The organisation coordinating emergency services in the hardest-hit eastern Valencia region said 202 people had been confirmed dead there. Officials in neighbouring Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia in the south had already announced a combined three deaths in their regions. Rescuers equipped with drones and sniffer...

By Joseph Tanfani and Andrew Goudsward for Reuters Photo: AFP / Kamil Krzaczynski False claims about voter fraud in Pennsylvania have raised concerns that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may once again seek to overturn the vote there or in other battleground states likely to determine the winner on Tuesday. Opinion polls, both nationally and in the seven closely divided states, show Trump locked in a tight race with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris with four days to go before Election Day. Trump continues to falsely claim his 2020 loss to Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud in multiple states that Trump lost, while he and his supporters have spread baseless claims about this election in Pennsylvania. "He's making up baseless claims...

Emergency and rescue teams working at the site where a concrete outdoor roof of a train station collapsed in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad. Photo: AFP PHOTO / MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AFFAIRS OF SERBIA Rescue workers scoured piles of concrete and twisted metal for survivors on Friday (local time) after a roof collapsed at the entrance of a railway station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad killing 13 people. Cranes and bulldozers helped sift through the wreckage alongside dozens of rescuers and construction workers, while medical staff and ambulances waited nearby. The collapse of a 35-metre length of roofing occurred at noon on a sunny day in the city about 70km northwest of the capital, Belgrade. The dead were pulled from the rubble throughout the afternoon and into the evening. "Our...

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has been labelled a "tyrant" for suggesting a former Republican politician should face a firing squad for her foreign policy stance. Trump called Liz Cheney - one of the highest-profile Republicans to turn against Trump and endorse his opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris - a "very dumb individual" and a "radical war hawk" at a campaign event in Arizona. "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained to her face," he said. Cheney, the daughter of former Republican vice president Dick Cheney, said Trump's comment showed he was a "petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant". "This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten ...

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on 1 November, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Photo: AFP By Michelle Nichols, Reuters The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is "apocalyptic" as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations officials warned on Friday. "The entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence," they said in a statement signed by the heads of UN agencies, including the UN children's agency UNICEF and the World Food Programme, and other aid groups. Israel began a wide military push in northern Gaza in October.. The United States has said it was watching to ensure that its al...

By David Latona and Charlie Devereux, Reuters Locals struggle to clean up after flooding in the town of Massanassa, in Valencia, eastern Spain. Photo: AFP / Jose Jordan Dozens still missing, minister says Convention centre in Valencia used to store bodies Some areas still cut off by floodwaters and mud Firefighters battle to get power supplies back on Spanish rescuers opened a temporary morgue in a convention centre and battled to reach areas still cut off on Friday as the death toll from catastrophic floods rose to 205 people in Europe's worst weather disaster in five decades. In Valencia, the eastern region that bore the brunt of the devastation, at least 202 people have died, regional authorities said. Three have died in Castilla La Mancha and Andalusia. The number of dead is...

Former Republican senator Liz Cheney. Photo: AFP Cheney says Trump remark shows he would lead as 'tyrant' Trump evokes image of 'nine barrels shooting at her' Cheney has endorsed Trump's rival Kamala Harris Former U.S. lawmaker Liz Cheney says Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's violent comment suggesting she should face a firing squad for her foreign policy stance shows he cannot be entrusted with the White House and would target his enemies in office. Former President Trump, who faces Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday's election, called Cheney "a very dumb individual" and a "war hawk," noting that she and her father, former Republican vice president Dick Cheney, refused to back his third presidential run. "She's a radical war hawk. Let's put...

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are rallying in Nevada and Arizona as the presidential campaign nears its end. In their final events today, Harris spoke in Las Vegas, Nevada at a rally featuring singer Jennifer Lopez, while Trump attended a town hall style event with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Phoenix, Arizona. Harris vowed to represent all Americans and work with those who disagreed with her - a reference to Trump's calling of political opponents the "enemy from within." Lopez expressed shock at Trump's Puerto Rico comments, referencing her Puerto Rican heritage. The latest big name to endorse Harris is basketball legend LeBron James. In a post on social media, the NBA's all-time leading scorer said "the choice is clear". With just days left before polls clo...

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are rallying in Nevada and Arizona as the presidential campaign nears its end. In their final events today, Harris will be speaking in Las Vegas, Nevada at a rally featuring singer Jennifer Lopez, while Trump will attend a town hall style event with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Phoenix, Arizona. The latest big name to endorse Harris is basketball legend LeBron James. In a post on social media, the NBA's all-time leading scorer said "the choice is clear". 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. "They both think they're going to win, they both think it's t...

By Tim Reid, Reuters Donald Trump will go up against Kamala Harris in the fight for the White House on 5 November. Photo: BILL PUGLIANO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP Thousands of observers may be deployed in Wisconsin on 5 November July action by pro-Trump activists was 'dry run' - officials Democrats also set to mobilise volunteers on election day Battleground state Wisconsin beefs up security at poll sites The moment election workers in the Milwaukee area started counting mail-in votes, activists backing Donald Trump's claim that his 2020 defeat was fraudulent began challenging every ballot. The observers raised a litany of complaints as poll staff read the absentee names and addresses aloud, as required in the state of Wisconsin, according to local elect...