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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gained on his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton among American voters this week, cutting her lead nearly in half, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. Clinton led Trump 44 percent to 40 percent, according to the Oct. 14-20 Reuters/Ipsos poll, a 4-point lead. That compared with 44 percent for Clinton and 37 percent for Trump in the Oct. ...

Syria’s army and Russia’s air force halted their bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Friday, a monitoring group said. On the second of four consecutive daytime unilateral ceasefires in the city that have been rejected by insurgents. Heavy clashes took place in Aleppo during the night, outside the 11-hour periods during which the ceasefire is in place, Zakaria Malahifji, a ...

A U.S. navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Friday, drawing a warning from Chinese warships to leave the area. The U.S. action was the latest attempt to counter what Washington sees as Beijing’s efforts to limit freedom of navigation in the strategic waters, U.S. officials said.

The United Nations named the comic-book superhero Wonder Woman as an honorary ambassador on Friday to fight for gender equality, amid criticism that the scantily clad fictional character was an inappropriate choice. At a ceremony at the U.N. headquarters, U.N. Under-Secretary-General Cristina Gallach announced the appointment. The new ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls has been known for ...

Cyber attacks targeting a little known internet infrastructure company, Dyn, disrupted access to dozens of websites on Friday, preventing some users from accessing PayPal, Twitter and Spotify. Dyn, whose customers include some of the world’s most widely visited websites, said it did not know who was responsible for the outages that began in the Eastern United States, and then spread ...

Islamic State launched a major attack on the city of Kirkuk on Friday as Iraqi and Kurdish forces pursued operations to seize territory around Mosul in preparation for an offensive on the jihadists’ last major stronghold in Iraq. Islamic State’s assault on Kirkuk, which lies in an oil- producing region, killed 18 members of the security forces and workers at ...

Fourteen people remained trapped on Friday under the wreckage of a packed passenger train that derailed en route between Cameroon’s two largest cities. Killing at least 55 and injuring 575, the government said in a communique read on state television. The Camrail inter-city train was traveling from the capital, Yaounde, to the port city of Douala when the accident occurred ...

A proposed increase in France’s share tax flies in the face of efforts by the government and the financial industry to lure banking jobs from London, financial sector lobbies have warned. In a first reading of the 2016 budget bill, lawmakers in the lower house of parliament backed an increase in the tax to 0.3 percent from 0.2 percent as ...

Curfew and other restrictions have been imposed in all major towns of occupied kashmir to prevent marches towards the residences of members of the so-called legislative assembly across the territory, today.   Call for the three-day marches has been given by the joint resistance leadership comprising the all parties hurriyet conference chairman, syed ali gilani, and hurriyet leaders, mirwaiz umar ...

Younis khan scored 127 as pakistan were 304 for 4 at stumps against west indies on the opening day of second cricket test in abu dhabi. Misbah ul haq was unbeaten on 90 when the stumps were drawn. Earlier, pakistan captain won the toss and elected to bat first. Pakistan lost both openers on 42, azhar ali was bowled out ...