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A US election poll shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in five out of six battleground states.
The New York Times/Siena poll revealed voters have concerns about a number of issues, including Biden's advanced age as well as his handling of the economy.
US Correspondent Ira Spitzer has more
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Elon Musk's company xAI has announced a new chatbot that will use real-time data from the platform X, which he also owns.
The Tesla CEO says the Grok chatbot will eventually be released to X's premium subscribers.
Ira Spitzer reports from San Francisco.
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A snap back to reality — the United States added 150,000 jobs in October, new stats show.
But that's fewer than expected, a sign that the jobs market in the US is cooling.
Benji Hyer reports.
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Nearly 100 British nationals are listed as approved to leave Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, on Friday.
The border crossing had been closed until Wednesday when some foreign nationals and seriously injured Palestinians were allowed to leave.
The UK Foreign Office says it has deployed teams to Egypt to aid British nationals that manage to leave Gaza.
Simon Gaitán reports…
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The French president is due in Brittany on Friday, after the north-west French region suffered the most extensive damage from Storm Ciaran (Keeran).
Two people died and more than a dozen others were injured when violent winds struck on Wednesday.
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Terror group Boko Haram has killed no fewer than 37 people in Nigeria's northeast state of Yobe this week.
20 of them died in a detonated vehicle while returning from the burial of 17 victims of an earlier attack by the insurgents.
Tesem Akende reports from Jos.
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Government and primary schools have been asked to close down for two days in India's capital New Delhi as the city sees quote severe pollution levels.
The air quality in some parts of the city now has 12 to 13 times more pollutants than what the World Health Organisation considers permissible.
Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
IN: Delhi residents...CUE: China says it can represent the voice of Global South on Artificial Intelligence, after signing a declaration this week on the safety of A-I, along with America, the European Union, and many other countries.
Here's Andrew Wood in Hong Kong.
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US President Joe Biden has called for a "pause" in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
His comment to a heckler at a campaign event is different from the position the White House has taken so far - that they would not tell Israel what to do.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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