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Ex-minister Mulino leads presidential race as Panama counts votes
Jose Raul Mulino, the protege of a graft-convicted former head of state, took the lead in Panama's presidential election Sunday evening with half the votes counted, according to election tribunal data.Mulino, 64, led with more than a third of the tallied votes, the data showed.
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Floor by floor search for flood victims in Brazil's Porto Alegre
From top to bottom, rescuers scour buildings in Porto Alegre for inhabitants stuck in apartments or on rooftops as unprecedented flooding turned the streets of the Brazilian metropolis into rivers. According to the mayor's office, the level of the Guaiba River that runs past Porto Alegre reached 5.3 meters (about 17.4 feet) on Sunday -- higher than the previous record of 4.76 meters recorded during historic floods in 1941.
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Exiled Russian historian rallies fellow emigrants in dark times
Russian dissident historian Tamara Eidelman was on vacation in Greece when Moscow's tanks rolled into Ukraine in February 2022 and she realized that she would not be going back to her home country.During her lecture in an auditorium of several hundred Russian speakers titled "The Judgment of History," Eidelman examined the painful questions of countries' and societies' culpability and responsibility for crimes from ancient Greece to Nazi Germany -- with the clear undertone of Russia's war in Ukr
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Bodies in Mexico presumed to be missing surfers have bullet wounds to head
Relatives of two Australians and an American who disappeared on a surfing trip arrived in Mexico Sunday to identify their presumed bodies, which were found with gunshot wounds to the head, authorities said.Bodies presumed to belong to the three men "all have a hole in their head made by a firearm projectile," Andrade said, adding that the trio had previously visited Mexico several times without any problems.
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Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding kills at least 78
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with at least 78 dead and 115,000 forced from their homes.- 'It's terrifying' - Authorities scrambled to evacuate swamped neighborhoods as rescue workers used four-wheel-drive vehicles -- and even jet skis -- to maneuver through waist-deep water in search of the stranded.
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Ex-Fulton County Prosecutors Defends Workplace Romance As 'American As Apple Pie'
Nathan Wade resigned so District Attorney Fani Willis could continue prosecuting the case.
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Kristi Noem Thinks Biden's Dog Should Have Met The Same Fate As Her Poor Cricket
Noem doubled down on her decision to shoot and kill her 14-month-old hunting dog during an interview on CBS this weekend.
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