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The Canadian press –
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President Donald Trump, his shadow over the mid-term elections that will shape the future of his administration, took advantage of his final speech to ask voters to help preserve the "fragile" GOP victories that could to be annulled by the democratic advances of Congress.

After months of battle serving as a test bench for his nationalist calls and the strength of the coalition that led him to the White House two years ago, Trump closed a campaign defined by his racist rhetoric and intransigent immigration. moves and scattershot policy proposals. Recognizing the issues of the last days of the election campaign, Trump told voters that everything was at stake.

"Everything is fragile, everything I told you about can be canceled and changed by the Democrats as they enter the country," Trump told his supporters during a telephone interview organized as part of his reelection campaign. "You see how they behaved, you see what's happening to them, they've really radicalized themselves."

In an election night election, Trump released a softer note with media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcasting, saying he regretted some of his caustic talk about his campaign.

"I would like to have a much softer tone, I think to a certain extent, I do not have a choice, but that may be the case," Trump said.

Trump spent his last hours on the trail Monday in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, where his rhetoric about illegal immigration became harsh and he launched attacks against Democrats.

"The contrast in this election is clear: Democrats produce crowds," Trump said at his last rally on Monday night in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. "That's what happened … Republicans are producing jobs."

In a tweet on Monday, he warned that the security forces were "strongly urged to closely monitor any illegal vote that may take place in the Tuesday (or early) election". Trump falsely claimed that millions of illegal votes had been cast in 2016, which he said deprived him of the victory of the popular vote and fueled concerns, without providing evidence, of a fraudulent fraudulent vote.

"I finally wish to unite," Trump told Fort Wayne, in Indiana, "but I drive them crazy."

Trump also sought to stand out from any potential blame if the Republicans lost control of the House, saying, "My main goal has been the Senate."

Whatever the outcome, Trump made it clear that he knew his political future was at stake.

"In a sense, I'm on the ticket," he told a raging crowd in Cleveland.

He warned supporters of the town hall phone to go out and vote because "the press really considers it's a referendum on me and us as a movement".

Republicans are increasingly confident that they can retain control of the Senate, but they face headwinds in the House. In an interview with The Associated Press last month, Trump said he would not accept blame for a GOP defeat at the polls.

Trump maintained a busy campaign schedule in the latter part of the race, with 11 rallies spread over six days. In the closing days, Trump invited special guests to join him. Country singer Lee Greenwood performed Sunday in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Trump's favorite song, "God Bless the USA", and appeared with the president Monday night in Missouri.

In Indiana and again in Missouri, Trump invited White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Councilor Kellyanne Conway on stage to talk with her daughter, Ivanka Trump.

According to Trump's campaign, Fox News personality Sean Hannity and radio host Rush Limbaugh were "special guests" in the last campaign, although Hannity insisted on Twitter for "It only covers the last rally for my show". Trump, however, called Hannity to the scene.

The Canadian press –
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The Canadian press –
Nov 5, 2018 / 2:19 pm | story:
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A Belgian court of appeal ruled that King Albert was to provide DNA in a lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed to be the child of love of the former Belgian monarch.

The decision on Monday was a surprise, as a court of first instance ruled that Delphine Boel could not rely on such forensic evidence to establish paternity.

Monday's decision gives King Albert three months to provide a sample of DNA that would be used to determine if he was Boel's father.

Boel's claim has been in the headlines of Belgian newspapers for years. Albert has never publicly denied being his father.

He may appeal the last decision or refuse to provide DNA.

The son of Albert, Philippe, is the ruling monarch in Belgium.

The Canadian press –
Nov 5, 2018 / 11:48 | story:
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The remaining six mountain caribou in the lower 48 states will be moved further north to Canada, an initiative that puts an end to decades of effort to reintroduce large animals in Idaho and Washington State.

The spokesman said the biologists hoped to breed the few survivors of the South Selkirk herd in captivity north of Revelstoke.

"That's what extinction is like and it must be the awakening of wildlife managers and habitat managers in Canada and the United States," said Joe Scott, Director of Conservation Northwest International Programs.

The news "marks the tragic end of an era," he said.

Mountain caribou was listed in the United States as an endangered species in 1983.

The Kalispel tribe in Washington State has been involved in a livestock project to expand the herd, but the project has failed.

The South Selkirk herd was along the Selkirk Mountains ridge near the Canadian border. About 14 other herds, including about 1,400 mountain caribou, roam the tundra further north of the border.

Known as Gray Ghosts because of the rarity of their appearance, Southern Selkirk caribou use their wide feet to stand over the deep snow and eat lichen that grows high in ancient forests.

Bart George, a wildlife biologist for the Kalispels, hopes the herd will begin to grow again in Canada and that caribou will spread to the United States.

In 2009, George said, the South Selkirk herd had 46 animals and was growing every year before the wolves entered the area.

"It's our main source of mortality that we are aware of," George said.

Forest roads and the increase in snowmobiling also played a role in the disappearance of the herd.

"We really have not mobilized before it's too late," George said.

The Canadian press –
Nov. 5, 2018/6 hrs 54 | story:
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Two buildings collapsed Monday in the city of Marseille, in the south of the country, leaving a huge pile of rubble and beams. Fire departments said two people were slightly injured.

The collapse shed debris on the street and clouds of dust in the air, leaving a large void where the two buildings were located.

Dozens of firemen were on the scene, accompanied by two sniffer dogs and big cars covered in dust, in the street near the famous Old Port of Marseille.

Authorities said that searches were under way to search for victims stranded under the rubble. The Marseille fire department said that two bystanders who were on the street when the buildings collapsed were treated for minor injuries.

The amateur video broadcast on BFM-TV showed dust clouds in the street and pbaders-by covering their mouths with their sleeves.

The images of the buildings before their collapse, visible on Google Street View, showed that one of the buildings had five floors and the other six.

One of the buildings was clearly in poor condition, with recessed windows and large visible cracks on the facade before collapsing.

Sabine Bernasconi, mayor of the city of Marseille, said that one of the buildings had been the subject of an eviction order, but she could not exclude that squatters l & # 39; have used.

The Canadian press –
Nov 5, 2018 / 5:41 am | story:
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A British fisherman had to be rescued from a cliff after fleeing an aggressive colony of about 50 gray seals and their young babies, Coast Guard officials said on Monday.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the fisherman was walking on a beach in southeastern Scotland when he encountered the seals, which became agitated and aggressive.

He climbed a cliff but remained trapped before reaching the summit and used his phone to call for emergency help.

Rescue teams managed to place the man in a lifeboat and to put him in the shelter in the port of Eyemouth.

He is treated for being exposed to the cold but has not suffered any injury.

Coast Guard officer Jonathan Mustard said people walking along the coast should be wary of seals protecting their young. He added that walkers and fishermen should have a fully charged phone so they can ask for help if needed.

"Aggressive seals are not common and in this case they may have protected or defended their natural habitat and their young," he said.

The Canadian press –
Nov 5, 2018/5 h 29 | story:
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Gunmen kidnapped at least 78 students and their director at a Presbyterian school in the village of Nkwen, in the troubled northwestern region of Cameroon, a governor announced on Monday.

The abduction, which took place Sunday night, took place near Bamenda, capital of troubled Anglophone region, according to the governor Deben Tchoffo.

A video allegedly of kidnapped children was broadcast on social media via men who call themselves Amba Boys, a reference to the state of Ambazonia that armed separatists are attempting to attack. establish in the northwestern and southwestern regions of Cameroon.

In the video, the abductors force about six of the children to give their names and the names of their parents. The kids say that they were kidnapped late Sunday and they do not know where they are being held.

Men who identify as kidnappers say that they will only release children when they will achieve what they want.

"We will not let you go until after the fight, you will now go to school here," say the men who identified themselves as Amba boys. Although the video can not be verified independently, parents reacted on social media saying that they recognized their children in the video.

Last year, hundreds of people were killed in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, where violence between armed separatists and military forces has intensified since the crackdown by the government on protesters in the northern regions. West and South West who claim to be marginalized by the French. speaking government.

Violent separatists took up arms to destabilize the English-speaking regions in order to gain the independence of the regions they wished to declare, called Ambazonia.

Last week, separatist militants attacked workers in a state-run rubber plantation in southwestern Cameroon in a climate of repression. They were slicing their fingers because they had challenged the order not to approach farms.

An American missionary also died in the northwestern region around Bamenda after being hit in the head by fighting between armed separatists and soldiers in northwestern Cameroon.

The unrest in Cameroon comes as President Paul Biya, who has been running since 1982, easily won a seventh term last month in an election that, according to the United States, was marked by irregularities. The government abolished the limitation on the length of the presidential term several years ago, as part of a trend in Africa that has appalled many.

The Canadian press –
Nov 5, 2018 / 5:19 am | story:
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The day of the account for the American policy is almost arrived.

Voters will decide Tuesday the $ 5 billion debate between prisoner politics, not a prisoner of President Donald Trump, and the Democratic Party's overflowing campaign to end the GOP monopoly in Washington and the country's states.

It would seem that an often-discussed "blue wave" can help Democrats take control of at least one House of Congress. But two years after elections that proved that the polls and the prognosticators were false, nothing was certain on the eve of the first national elections of the Trump presidency.

"I do not think there's a Democrat in this country who is not worried about 2016," said Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, who has spent more than ever before – close to $ 60 million in total – to support Democratic women this campaign season.

"Everything counts and everything is at stake," said Schriock.

The 435 seats of the House of the United States must be re-elected. And 35 seats in the Senate are at stake, as are nearly 40 governors and the balance of power in virtually every state legislature.

Although he is not on the ballot, Trump himself acknowledged that the mid-term reviews of 2018 represent primarily a referendum on his presidency.

If the Democrats took control of the House, as the two party strategists probably think, they could derail Trump's legislative agenda for the next two years. Perhaps more importantly, they would also obtain the power of summons to investigate the numerous personal and professional mistakes of the president.

Tuesday's elections will also test the strength of a political realignment of the Trump era, defined by the changing divisions among voters according to race, gender and especially the # 39; education.

Trump's Republican coalition is getting older, whiter, more masculine and less likely to have a university degree. Democrats rely more on women, people of color, young people and college graduates.

Political realignment, if one exists, could reshape US policy for a generation.

The Canadian press –
Nov 5, 2018 / 5h16 | story:
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A shark seriously injured a man on Monday near a port on the Great Barrier Reef Island in Australia, where two tourists were maimed several days in a row in September, officials said.

The man was "seriously wounded in the leg and wrist" when he was attacked near Cid Harbor on Whitsunday Island off the coast of Queensland, Queensland said Ambulance.

The victim was taken by helicopter to the Mackay base hospital, 100 km south, where his condition was considered critical, said the Central Queensland helicopter rescue service in a statement.

Whitsunday is the largest island in the Whitsunday Group, a major international tourist attraction popular with divers and sailors where shark attacks have been rare.

Justine Barwick, a 46 year old tourist, was attacked on September 19th while she was swimming on a yacht in Cid Harbor and she is recovering. Hannah Papps, a 12-year-old tourist, was attacked in the same port the next day, losing a leg.

The last shark attack in the Whitsunday Islands prior to the last wave took place in 2010 off Dent Island when a 60-year-old woman survived serious lacerations on the bad and a significant blood loss.

The Canadian press –
November 4, 2018 / 7:08 pm | story:
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A majority of voters from the South Pacific Territory of New Caledonia chose to be part of France instead of supporting Independence Sunday, a turning point that led French President Emmanuel Macron to promise an in-depth dialogue on the future of the archipelago.

In total, 56.4% of the voters who participated in the referendum decided to maintain ties with the country that governed New Caledonia since the mid-19th century and 43.6% supported independence, said the Office of the High Commissioner.

"I ask everyone to look to the future to build New Caledonia tomorrow," said Macron, speaking from the Elysee in Paris. "The spirit of dialogue is the only winner."

More than 174,000 registered voters were invited to answer the question: "Do you want New Caledonia to acquire full sovereignty and become independent?"

The referendum attracted a record turnout of 80.6% – so many voters that some polling stations in the capital, Noumea, had to stay open about an hour longer than expected to cope with the hustle and bustle.

The vote itself marked a milestone in the three decades of decolonization in New Caledonia, a process spurred by the mistreatment by Europeans of Kanak indigenous people in the region. New Caledonia, an archipelago east of Australia, has a nickel mining industry and sunlit lagoons.

The High Commissioner's office reported a wave of unrest in Noumea, given the count of votes: seven cars burned, roads closed and two throwing stones. But otherwise, the vote was extremely peaceful.

Congratulating both sides on their "responsible" campaigns, Macron said "contempt and violence" were the only losers in the historic poll.

The French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, will meet Monday the Caledonian authorities to discuss the political future of the territory of 270 000 inhabitants.

New Caledonia receives about 1.3 billion euros in subsidies from the French state each year, and many feared that the economy would suffer if links were broken.

Among the residents of the region are the Kanaks, who make up about 40% of the population, the people of European descent, who represent about 27%, as well as people from Asian countries and islands. Pacific.

Voter Monette Saihulinwa said she objected to independence.

"I do not necessarily want our lives to change," said the 50-year-old.

Others have welcomed the vote as historic.

"We have been waiting for this vote for 30 years," said Mariola Bouyer, 34. "This vote must demonstrate that we want to live in peace, no matter what our race, our roots, it is to build a country together."

The referendum was the result of a process begun 30 years ago to end the years of violence between independence supporters and opponents, which had totaled more than 70 deaths. The two sides agreed on a 1988 agreement and another agreement a decade later provided for a referendum on independence.

The archipelago of New Caledonia became French in 1853 under the Emperor Napoleon III – his nephew and heir to Napoleon – and was used for decades as a penal colony.

It became an overseas territory after the Second World War and granted French nationality to all Kanaks in 1957. Under the French colonial regime, Kanaks were subjected to a policy of strict segregation and were discriminated against. .

The Canadian press –
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After examining the affected Mediterranean island by helicopter, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte identified two other victims as a German couple whose car was washed away by floodwaters near Agrigento, a renowned tourist town for its ancient Greek temples.

According to Italian reports, a one-year-old child, a 3-year-old child and a teenager were among the flood victims during the family rally in Casteldaccia. A survivor, Giuseppe Giordano, has lost his wife, two of his children, his parents and a brother, announced the Italian news agency ANSA.

State broadcaster RaiNews24 said that Giordano was out Saturday night when the torrent rushed to describe him as the only person to have managed to get out alive.

When he opened the door, "there was a river of water, I was knocked over and grabbed a tree," Giordano told reporters between sobs. "I was screaming" Help, help. "

"My son Federico tried to save his little sister, but both died," Giordano said, claiming that his son had called his son "I'm taking care of" the girl's rescue.

Then "I saw the windows go out, the light went out, a layer of mud was moving on the floor," Giordano said. Then he said that he had been swept away by the force of the water.

The two families met in the villa during the long weekend in Italy, on the occasion of the national holiday of November 1 st.

Although the Italian newspapers initially described him as the owner of the house, Giordano said that he was renting the villa.

The Mayor of Casteldaccia, Giovanni Di Giacinto, told Sky TG24 that the floodwaters were 2 meters high inside the house.

The rescuers have recovered the bodies of the house. A Sicilian prosecutor opened an investigation to determine whether negligence, such as a possible inadequate drainage of the river, had played a role in the deaths or if the house had been built illegally near the river.

The latter could be the case. Pino Virga, mayor of the nearby town of Altavilla Milicia, told SkyTG24 TV that other local authorities had told her that the house was going to be demolished because she was too close to the river .

Di Giacinto also told the press that the owner had blocked the demolition by challenging it in a local court.

A retirement home on the road has been spared, ANSA reported.

A few days earlier, other storms hit much of northern Italy, killing at least 15 people, uprooting millions of trees near alpine valleys and leaving several Italian villages without electricity or road access for several days. .

Mr Conte said that a special cabinet meeting could be held in the coming days to deliberate on badisting storm-ravaged communities and to approve a billion euros (1.15 billion euros). dollars) to ensure safe hydrogeological conditions in Italy, including deep bed cleaning.

The other known victim in Sicily is a man whose body was also found on a guardrail along a road linking Palermo following the floods that washed away his car, the Italian press reported.

The firefighters claimed that their divers had been working on recovering the bodies of the couple whose car had been taken in the waters of the Saraceno River, said the Cammarata fire department, near Agrigento.

Also in the province of Agrigento, the firefighters saved 14 people from a hotel in the city of Montevago, threatened by floods from the Belice River.

Elsewhere in Sicily, at least two other people were missing on Sunday after the waters were washed away, including a doctor going to the hospital in the town of Corleone, located on the hill.

In Casteldaccia, Maria Concetta Alfano announced that she, her husband and their disabled adult daughter had fled after barking dogs had drawn their attention to the rising waters in the Milicia River. According to ANSA, the husband, Andrea Cardenale, was reported to have gone by car because "the water was at the height of the hood of the car".

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Frances D & Emilio is on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fdemilio.

The Canadian press –
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A yoga student is considered a hero for struggling with an armed man who pretended to be a client wishing to enter a Florida yoga studio and started shooting.

Joshua Quick spoke with ABC's Good Morning America channel on Sunday and said he grabbed Scott Paul Beierle's gun after blocking and hitting him. The Tallahbadee police identified Beierly as being the man who entered the Tallahbadee Hot Yoga clbad during a Friday night clbad and started shooting, killing two people and injuring six others. Police said Beierle, 40, then shot the pistol at himself but offered no motive in the attack.

Quick said Beierle was able to recover his weapon and then give him a boost.

"I jumped as fast as I could," said Quick, who had visible injuries to his face. "I ran back and the next thing I know is that I grab a broom, the only thing I can, and I've hit it again."

This created a window of opportunity for some people in the studio time to flee.

"Thanks to him, I was able to rush to the door," said Daniela Garcia Albalat at Good Morning America. She was in the clbad and thought that she was going to die when the shooting started. "He saved my life."

Two women – a 61-year-old Florida State University faculty member and a 21-year-old Atlanta FSU student who was due to graduate in May – were shot dead.

Dr. Nancy Van Vessem was an internist who was also the Chief Medical Officer of Capital Health Plan, the region's leading health maintenance organization. She was also a Florida faculty member and mother.

Maura Binkley grew up in Atlanta, was a member of a sorority and was studying for a double major in English and German.

It was a veteran and former teacher, who appeared to have made videos in which he hated his hate against everything from the law of affordable care to girls who allegedly abused him in college. The videos were posted four years ago and were removed from YouTube after the shoot.

Many troubling details about him appeared over the weekend. He had already been banned from the FSU campus and was arrested twice for seizing women, even though the charges were eventually dropped.

Beierle, who had moved to the city of Deltona in central Florida, after graduating from the postgraduate degree of the former Soviet Union, appeared to publish a series of videos on YouTube in 2014 in which he described the women of "whores" if they went out with black men. disgusting "and describes himself as a misogynist.

A Tallahbadee police spokesman did not confirm or deny that these videos belonged to Beierle. However, the man who speaks in the videos is similar to Beierle and the biographical details mentioned in the videos correspond to the known facts about Beierle, including details about his military service. In addition, the YouTube user name of the poster contained the word "Scott", named Beierle. The existence of the videos was reported for the first time by BuzzFeed.

In another video, the man who appeared to be Beierle compared his teenage years to Elliot Rodger, 22, who killed six students and injured more than a dozen near the University. from California to Santa Barbara, before killing himself in 2014..

A woman who filed a police report against Beierle told The Associated Press on Sunday that she had never forgotten how "scary" it was.

Courtnee Connon was 18 in 2012 when Scott Paul Beierle grabbed her butt in Florida State University's dining room. She refused, however, to file a complaint, thinking that he would be scared after an arrest and that she did not want to face him in court.

Yoga teachers in the small capital city – and across the country – were stunned and horrified that such a violent act could take place in a place conducive to tranquility, healing and non-violence.

"It's a place that brings me joy and peace, and I think it's ruined," said Katie Bohnett, an instructor at the yoga studio, who dropped out of her usual Friday practice to meet a friend at dinner . "This monster has ruined it."

Other yoga studios around Florida have organized clbades to help raise funds for the victims, and the Florida Yoga Teachers Association has set up a Go Fund Me campaign.

The news was at the center of the Yoga Journal's website: "Now yogis around the world are wondering if the place where they go when such events occur (read: their yoga studios) is a safe haven after all."

Some teachers wondered what they would say to their next clbad of students.

"As an instructor when you start each clbad, you ask students to close their eyes to relax because you are in a very safe space," said Amanda Morrison, a 35-year-old yoga teacher in Tallahbadee. .

She must give a clbad on Monday, and the safety of her students is her concern.

"I'm already thinking of closing the doors once the course starts," she says.