Saturday, October 26, 2019

Horse death toll at Santa Anita climbs to 35

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Mare G Q Covergirl was euthanized on Friday after she injured her two front legs while running on the training track at Santa Anita Park, bringing the death toll at the venue to 35 since Dec. 26.


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New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

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Police question four suspects over UK lorry deaths

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The bodies of eight women and 31 men were found in a lorry trailer in an industrial park in Grays.

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New best story on Hacker News: My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?

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Refile: Bolivians bang on pots and pans in protest at Morales election win

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Bolivians banged on pots and pans from windows and rooftops in the capital La Paz on Friday, protesting a controversial election count handing President Evo Morales a fourth consecutive term that would extend his rule to nearly two decades.


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Bolivians bang on pots and pans in protest at Morales election win

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Bolivians banged on pots and pans from windows and rooftops in the capital La Paz on Friday, protesting a controversial election count handing President Evo Morales a fourth consecutive term that would extend his rule to nearly two decades.


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Horse death toll at Santa Anita reaches 35

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Mare G Q Covergirl was euthanized on Friday after she injured her two front legs while running on the training track at Santa Anita Park, bringing the death toll at the venue to 35 since Dec. 26.


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Australia to settle more immigrants outside major cities

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The Australian government said on Saturday it is increasing the number of visas for skilled workers willing to migrate to the country's regions in a bid to ease pressure on major cities, where populations are growing twice as fast as elsewhere.


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General Motors to restart Mexican plants after labor deal ratified

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General Motors Co will gradually restart operations at several idled plants in Mexico beginning this weekend, after unionized workers for the U.S. automaker ratified a new labor contract, the company's Mexican unit said on Friday.


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Death toll rises to eight as heavy rains hit typhoon-battered eastern Japan

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The death toll from torrential rains that caused flooding and mudslides in eastern Japan rose to eight on Saturday, with a further four missing, public broadcaster NHK reported, just two weeks after the region was hit hard by a powerful typhoon.


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One million Chileans march in Santiago, city grinds to halt

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As many as a million Chileans protested peacefully late into the evening on Friday in the capital Santiago in the biggest rallies yet since violence broke out a week ago over entrenched inequality in the South American nation.


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California wildfires: Millions warned of possible power cut

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An electricity firm says it may have to cut power amid forecasts of a "historic wind event".

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Hong Kong medics join anti-government protests to 'resist tyranny'

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Hong Kong medical workers plan to rally in the heart of the city's financial center on Saturday, angry at perceived police brutality during more than four months of sometimes violent anti-government protests.


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How a social network could save democracy from deadlock

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An online tool developed in Taiwan could help defuse political rows across the globe.

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California firefighters take offensive against blazes in wine country, L.A. suburbs

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California firefighters aided by subsiding winds on Friday took the offensive against two major wildfires at opposite ends of the state, one displacing 50,000 suburban Los Angeles residents and another roaring through Sonoma County's famed wine country.


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General Motors to restart Mexican plants following new labor contract

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General Motors Co will gradually restart operations at two of its plants in Mexico this coming weekend, after workers for the U.S. automaker ratified a new labor contract, the company's Mexican unit said in a statement on Friday.


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Islamic State group: Will chaos in Syria allow IS to re-emerge?

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Thousands of jihadists held in Kurdish-run detention centres pose a ticking time bomb for the West.

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Viewpoint: What the ancient Greeks can teach us about Greta Thunberg trolls

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Online abuse of women may seem like a modern issue, but these tactics go back millennia.

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Student athletes fight to compete as Chicago teachers strike

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Student athletes in Chicago are fighting for their right to compete after a seven-day teachers' strike disqualified some from championships and imperiled scholarship chances for others.


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Week in Pictures: 19 - 25 October 2019

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A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week.

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Russian agent Butina released from U.S. prison, deported

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Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina was released from a Florida prison on Friday after serving most of her 18-month sentence for conspiring to influence U.S. conservative activists and infiltrate a powerful gun rights group, and taken into custody by immigration officials to be deported to her native country.


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