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US President Joe Biden playfully bites a baby during a trick-or-treaters celebration at the White House in Washington, US, October 30, 2024. — Reuters pic

Biden bites baby, dough-mocracy, genitals: Meet the home stretch of the US elections

New leader of Britain's main opposition Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, came out on top in the two-horse race with former immigration minister Robert Jenrick, as decided by party members. — AFP pic

‘Anti-woke’ Badenoch elected new leader of UK Conservative Party

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told students that the United States and Israel will 'undoubtedly receive a crushing response.' — Wana pic via Reuters

Khamenei says US, Israel face ‘crushing response’ for confronting Iran, state media reports

More than 70 million Americans have already cast ballots, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida, below the record early-voting pace in 2020 during Covid-19, but still indicating a high level of voter enthusiasm. — Reuters pic

Trump, Harris head to North Carolina in US election campaign’s final weekend

People walk along a muddy street on November 1, 2024, following the devastating effects of flooding in the town of Alfafar, in the region of Valencia, eastern Spain. — AFP pic

Thousands join effort to clean up catastrophic Spanish floods

Former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison poses for a booking photograph at Shelby County Detention Center in Shelbyville, Kentucky September 23, 2020. — Shelby County Detention Centre handout via Reuters

Former US cop convicted of civil rights abuse in Breonna Taylor case

People take part in a protest against what they say are killings of environmental activists, at the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16), in Yumbo, Colombia October 31, 2024. — Reuters pic

UN COP16 nature summit creates permanent body for Indigenous peoples

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg yesterday labelled Donald Trump the ‘more dangerous’ option in next week’s US presidential election but slammed Harris for Israel support. — AFP pic

Greta Thunberg says Trump ‘more dangerous’, then criticises Harris over Israel, tells Americans don’t settle for least worst option

A Russian student will face trial this month for treason on behalf of Ukraine, a court said Friday, after the 20-year-old was jailed in Chechnya for allegedly burning the Quran. — AFP pic

Russian student jailed for Quran burning now faces new treason trial for alleged ties to Ukraine’s security service

Men carry a body inside a blanket in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on November 1. — AFP pic

No permanent ceasefire, no truce: Hamas rejects mediators’ proposal

Richard Moore, 59, was pronounced dead at 6.24pm after receiving a lethal injection at a prison in state capital Columbia, media witnesses said. — AFP pic

South Carolina executes black man convicted by all-white jury amid claims of self-defence

Businesses were boarding up in Washington as the US capital braced for Tuesday’s knife-edge presidential election — and any potential repeat of the shocking violence that erupted in the wake of 2020’s vote. — AFP pic

Fort Washington: Businesses brace for unrest as election anxiety peaks

This picture taken in Moscow on October 5, 2021 shows the US online social media and social networking service Facebook's logo on a smartphone screen. Dozens of Facebook groups bill themselves as Kamala Harris fan pages but mount racist attacks, criticise her record on immigration and promote her rival Donald Trump, in what disinformation researchers call a ‘bait-and-switch’ tactic aimed at deceiving voters in a tight US election race. — AFP pic

Deceptive ‘bait-and-switch’ Facebook groups spread disinformation targeting US voters with anti-Kamala Harris posts

A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan October 31, 2024. — Reuters pic

‘Empty words’: Climate action stalls a year on as world clings to fossil fuels

This photograph taken on October 9, 2024 shows an elite police personnel monitoring security at a post on a sandy island along the Indus river, in the 'Katcha lands' at Rahim Yar Khan district. On TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram Pakistani gangster Shahid Lund Baloch fascinates tens-of-thousands with defiant messages delivered gun-in-hand, glamourising his exile lifestyle and cultivating a ‘Robin Hood’ reputation. — AFP pic

‘Beloved brother bandit’: TikTok-famed outlaw terrorises, transfixes Pakistan riverlands as authorities struggle to catch him

The Kremlin says the choice of who becomes the next US president is a matter exclusively for the American people and that it will work with whoever is elected. — Sputnik pic via Reuters

‘Vladimir, let’s talk’: Putin and Trump’s uneasy bromance — from admiration to geopolitical clashes