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It's up to people power to mend a system that Trump has trashed

Chloe Ward and Emma Shortis

Historians looking back on this US election may see the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the critical turning point. Or they may see a reassertion of people power that even an activist judiciary could not overcome.

COVID-19 gap widens between Australia and the rest of the world

Michael Toole

The news coming out of Europe and the United States is shocking. The graphs are startling. Don't count on travel beyond the Asia-Pacific region any time soon.

Trump's narrow - but not impossible - path to victory

Matthew Knott
Matthew Knott

If Donald Trump scores a second upset election victory next week, how will it happen? Two states hold the key: Florida and Pennsylvania.

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North America

Donald and Melania Trump at a campaign rally in Florida on Thursday.
US votes 2020

Trump, Biden spruik competing COVID messages as cases hit new daily record

With five days left in the campaign, the candidates held duelling rallies in Florida to win over Latinos and seniors - groups vulnerable in the virus' second wave.

  • by Farrah Tomazin
US election 2020: eight weeks boiled down into 16 minutes
US votes 2020

COVID, civil unrest and warp speed: watch two months of the US election in 16 minutes

The Campaign presents a quick-fire montage of sound bites, speeches, tweets, controversies and trivialities that defined the US media coverage of the 2020 US election campaign.

  • by Tom Compagnoni
Channel surfing the 2020 US election campaign
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North America

The Campaign

US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin. Hackers stole $US2.3 million from the state Republican Party's account that was being used to help re-elect him.
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US votes 2020

As it happened: Donald Trump and Joe Biden chase late voters in Florida as nation surpasses nine million COVID-19 cases amid new surge in infections

  • by Roy Ward
Glenn Greenwald helped create The Intercept.
US votes 2020

Glenn Greenwald resigns from the Intercept following dispute over Biden story

  • by Jeremy Barr and Elahe Izadi

Europe

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Asia

Azerbaijan army soldiers fire an artillery piece during fighting with forces of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
War

In Armenia and Azerbaijan's war, even a McDonald's is taking sides

After military clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia broke out last month, fast-food franchisees began to weigh in - on behalf of Azerbaijan.

  • by Rick Noack
A COVID-19 patient at Avignon is evacuated on a French Air Force plane to Brest. As hospitals near capacity in France, patients requiring urgent treatment are being transferred across the country.
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19 gap widens between Australia and the rest of the world

The news coming out of Europe and the United States is shocking. The graphs are startling. Don't count on travel beyond the Asia-Pacific region any time soon.

  • by Michael Toole
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers his speech at the Nahdlatul Ulama in Jakarta on Thursday. He renewed the Trump administration’s rhetorical onslaught against China as the American presidential election looms.
China relations

China's treatment of Uighurs 'biggest threat to religious freedom': Pompeo

  • by James Massola
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, left, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wave at the Presidential Palace in Bogor, West Java, on Thursday.
China relations

In Indonesia, Trump envoy presses case against China

  • by James Massola and Karuni Rompies
Zara Alvarez was gunned down by unidentified assassins in August 2020, three months after contributing research to a UN investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in the Phillipines.
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Human rights

Priests, bishops murdered during Duterte's drug war

  • by James Massola

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New Zealanders vote 'yes' to euthanasia, 'no' to legalising cannabis

The country held a referendum on the two contentious policies at the same time as the national parliamentary election last month.

  • by James Massola
A car and two dogs are seen on the roof of destroyed houses in the small town of Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, after the Samarco dam collapse in 2015.
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Prosecutors file lawsuit against BHP, Vale dam compensation deal

  • by Roberto Samora
A satellite image shows construction at Iran's Natanz uranium-enrichment facility that experts believe may be a new, underground centrifuge assembly plant.
Nuclear disarmament

Satellite photos show construction at Iran nuclear site

  • by Jon Gambrell
Technicians work in the reactor of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant in a 2004 picture, released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation.
Nuclear disarmament

Iran building underground nuclear facility: UN watchdog

  • by David Rising
Azerbaijani soldiers search for survivors after rocket fire by Armenian forces.
Border disputes

Warring nations accuse each other of breaking US-brokered truce 

  • by Zulfugar Agayev and Sara Khojoyan
Two men, one with a head sticker reading "No more abuse", embrace each other in Santiago on the day Chileans voted to create a new constitution.
Democracy

'No more abuse': Chile to scrap Pinochet-era constitution after landslide vote

  • by EVA VERGARA
Abu Muhsin al-Masri, also known as Husam Abd-al-Ra'uf, has reportedly been killed. He is wanted in connection with his membership in al-Qaeda, an organisation known for committing acts of terrorism against the government of the United States.
Extremism

Afghan security forces kill senior al-Qaeda leader al-Masri

  • by Hamid Shalizi

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