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Belgium Backs Extradition to France of Jewish Museum Suspect

A Belgian court Thursday backed the eventual extradition to France of the suspect in a deadly attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014, prosecutors said.

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Austria Sends Troops to Hungary-Serbia Border

Austria on Thursday sent 60 troops to Hungary's border with non-EU Serbia as Vienna's defense minister warned that the EU's migrants deal with Turkey was "showing cracks."

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Turkey's Erdogan Accuses Germany of 'Harbouring Terrorists'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Germany of being one of the worst countries in the world for harboring "terrorists", saying Berlin had not responded to requests to hand over suspects from the July 15 failed coup.

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Venezuela Opposition Bets on Risky Truce with Maduro

Venezuela's opposition began a tense truce Wednesday with President Nicolas Maduro, but supporters accused it of betraying them amid warnings the strategy might backfire.

With Pope Francis' blessing, Maduro and top opposition leaders have agreed to sit down to Vatican-mediated talks starting November 11, seeking an exit from a nasty political crisis and economic melt-down.

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U.S. Airstrikes Kill 30 Afghan Civilians, Officials Say

U.S. airstrikes early Thursday killed at least 30 Afghan civilians, including women and children, in the volatile northern province of Kunduz, officials said, after a Taliban assault left two American soldiers dead.

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New Poll Shows Clinton with Narrowed Edge over Rival Trump in Race's Final Days

Just five days before the bitter presidential campaign comes to a head a new poll Thursday showed a tightening race, with Hillary Clinton's edge over Donald Trump shrinking and few voters saying they remain undecided.

The New York Times/CBS News poll showed the Democratic White House hopeful with 45 percent to her Republican rival's 42, a three-point lead that had diminished from the more comfortable nine-point margin she had weeks earlier.

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Early Voting Offers Clues in White House Race

More than 27 million people have already voted in the U.S. presidential election, and early trends are offering some hints of the outcome less than a week before Election Day.

Six days before the election, voters had cast 6.7 million more early ballots compared to the same period in 2012, the data analytics firm Catalist said.

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Hollande Endures 'Ghost' Jibes as Opposition Holds Fresh Debate

As Francois Hollande kept France guessing over whether he will seek re-election as president, the resurgent opposition was set to return to the debate stage on Thursday.

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Three Dead in Thai South Night of Violence

Three people were shot dead in a night of violence across Thailand's restive deep south, in apparently coordinated attacks coinciding with a visit by the new minister for the Muslim-majority region.

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Amnesty Alleges Italian Police 'Torture' Migrants

Italian police have used beatings and electric shocks, potentially constituting "torture", to coerce migrants into being fingerprinted as the country cracks under pressure from the EU, Amnesty International said Thursday.

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