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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland, Reuters US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris gestures as she arrives to speak on The Ellipse, just south of the White House. Photo: AFP Harris issues warning at site where Trump urged supporters to march on US Capitol in 2021 Campaign says over 75,000 gathered at event near White House Trump says New York rally where his allies made racist remarks was 'lovefest' Democrat Kamala Harris has warned the tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington at her biggest-ever rally that her Republican opponent Donald Trump was seeking unchecked power as their race for the White House enters its final week. Harris spoke on Tuesday evening to an outdoor rally estimated by her campaign to number more than 75,000 people, at ...

By John Towfighi, CNN A photograph taken on 2 September 2024 shows a mural created by artist Scott Wilcock aka Snow Graffiti, depicting Liam Gallagher (L) and Noel Gallagher (R) members of the British rock band Oasis, and painted outside the pub Whitefield, near Heaton Park, in Manchester, northern England. Photo: AFP / PAUL ELLIS Oasis is cancelling around 50,000 tickets for its British tour dates that were resold on secondary websites like StubHub and Viagogo. The band's tour promoters are cancelling tickets resold through unofficial secondary sites to stop price gouging, a spokesperson for Live Nation and SJM, the Oasis tour promoters, told CNN. Oasis fans are the latest to deal with the issue of ticket scalpers, who purchase tickets at face value and resell them for profit. The p...

The latest polls have vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump even in the critical southwest states of Arizona and Nevada. At 12.30pm on Wednesday (NZT), Harris will give her final speech on the Ellipse - the patch of park where Trump rallied his supporters on 6 January 2021, within view of the White House. Trump is still working to distance himself from the controversial Madison Square Gardens rally insisting he is "the opposite of a Nazi". Keep up to date with the latest US election coverage here: Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. Source link

The latest polls have vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump even in the critical southwest states of Arizona and Nevada. On Wednesday, Harris will give her final speech on the Ellipse - the patch of park where Trump rallied his supporters on 6 January 2021, within view of the White House. Trump is still working to distance himself from the controversial Madison Square Gardens rally insisting he is "the opposite of a Nazi". Keep up to date with the latest US election coverage here: Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. Source link

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN The poll come as large numbers of voters report having already cast ballots. Photo: Brendan SMIALOWSKI and Patrick T. Fallon / AFP In the critical Southwest battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump run near even in the race for the White House, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS. The findings come as large numbers of voters report having already cast ballots and the pool of those open to changing their mind shrinks. Harris holds 48 percent support among likely voters in Arizona, according to the poll, to 47 percent for Trump. In Nevada, 48 percent of likely voters support Trump and 47 percent back Harris. Those 1-point margins fall within each poll's margin ...

By Pierre-Henry Deshayes, AFP A derailed tram that has driven into a building in a busy street in the centre of Oslo, Norway. Photo: OLE BERG-RUSTEN/NTB/AFP A tram derailed and careened into a store in central Oslo, a rare accident that left at least four people injured and sparked panic among passersby. The accident happened in the late morning in a bustling commercial neighbourhood of the Norwegian capital. The tram, which should have made a left turn at a crossing, jumped the rails for an unknown reason and continued straight ahead, its front section crashing deep into an electronics retailer on the corner selling Apple products. "Three people on board the tram were injured and another person outside," head of police operations at the scene, Anders Ronning, told AFP. "No one is de...

A voting station in Phoenix Arizona Photo: RNZ/Nick Monro The latest polls have vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump even in the critical southwest states of Arizona and Nevada. On Wednesday, Harris will give her final speech on the Ellipse - the patch of park where Trump rallied his supporters on 6 January 2021, within view of the White House. Trump is still working to distance himself from the controversial Madison Square Gardens rally insisting he is "the opposite of a Nazi". Keep up to date with the latest US election coverage here: Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. Source link

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Hemlock, Michigan. Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters via CNN Newsource The latest polls have vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump even in the critical southwest states of Arizona and Nevada. On Wednesday, Harris will give her final speech on the Ellipse - the patch of park where Trump rallied his supporters on 6 January 2021, within view of the White House. Trump is still working to distance himself from the controversial Madison Square Gardens rally insisting he is "the opposite of a Nazi". Keep up to date with the latest US election coverage here: Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/532249/harris...

By Joaquin Caballero, CNN en Español A drone view shows the remains of the hotel Dubrovnik, after collapsed in the coastal city of Villa Gesell, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: Pablo Funes/Reuters via CNN Newsource A man has died and up to nine other people are missing after a 10-story hotel collapsed in Argentina. The 10-story Dubrovnik hotel in the city of Villa Gessell, about 370 kilometres from the capital Buenos Aires on the Atlantic coast, collapsed early on Wednesday, according to a statement from the municipal authorities. Firefighters, paramedics and police were working to remove debris in order to reach people who are thought to be buried. The victim is thought to have been an 80-year-old man who lived in the building next to the collapsed hotel, minister of security of ...

Former prime minister Scott Robertson's actions were both praised and critisized in the report. Photo: AFP By Tom Crowley, ABC Australia's Covid-19 response frayed after early successes, damaging the public's trust and making it unlikely that lockdowns or other harsh restrictions will be tolerated again, a federal government review has found. The review hailed "courageous decisions" taken by leaders early in the pandemic, without which it concluded the pandemic death toll would have been several times larger, but said cracks started to emerge as the pandemic wore on and communication was often poor, undermining public confidence. "Trust has also been eroded, and many of the measures taken during Covid-19 are unlikely to be accepted by the population again," the reviewers said. Recommend...