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HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Rafael swirled Friday through the Gulf of Mexico where it was expected to break apart after plowing through Cuba, knocking out the country’s power grid and collapsing hundreds of houses. On Friday morning, the now Category 2 hurricane was located 230 miles north-northeast of Progreso, Mexico. It had maximum sustained w

Ireland’s prime minister has set a date for a general election and will ask the president to dissolve parliament ahead of voting. Simon Harris announced the polling date as 29 November, saying the “time is now right” to ask the Irish people for a new mandate. It means a relatively short campaign of just three […]

Spain was soaked in its wettest October on record last month which culminated in catastrophic floods that have killed 219 people and left dozens missing, the government said on Friday. An average of 147 litres per square metre (147 mm) drenched mainland Spain last month, making it the wettest October since records began in 1961, […]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan arrived Friday in Athens for meetings with his Greek counterpart as part of efforts to ease tension between the two neighbors and regional rivals. Both NATO members, Greece and Turkey have been at loggerheads for decades over a long series of issues, including volatile maritime boundary [&