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Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew

President Barack Obama condemned the Republican vying to replace him in the White House, Donald Trump, for his "demeaning" lewd boasts about groping women that have thrown his campaign into crisis.

President Barack Obama and officials urged people to heed safety instructions.

Hurricane Matthew scraped Florida's Atlantic coast early on Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to a half-million people but sparing some of the most heavily populated stretches of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had feared.

The Colombia conflict has killed more than 260,000 people and left 45,000 missing over five decades, drawing in several\ leftist guerrilla groups, right-wing paramilitaries and drug gangs.

The death toll from Hurricane Matthew rose to at least 69 people, including 65 in struggling Haiti, local officials said, as the storm headed northward on Thursday to the Bahamas and Florida.

Some 1.5 million people are under evacuation orders in Florida in preparation for mighty Hurricane Matthew to make a direct hit on the state, the governor said on Thursday.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has accused her Republican rival Donald Trump of outsourcing jobs to 12 countries and said if elected she would tax companies for shipping jobs overseas.

Poland won't back former Prime Minister Donald Tusk for a second term as European Council president, the head of the conservative ruling party said Tuesday.

Attacks targeting a camp in northern Mali operated by the United Nations peacekeeping mission on Tuesday killed one soldier from Chad and wounded eight others, UN officials said.

Donald Trump's new luxury hotel in downtown Washington has been vandalized.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over the possibility of emergence of nuclear suicide bombers from Pakistan if jihadists get access to atomic weapons.

With roughly a month until Election Day, Clinton is still struggling to win over young voters who twice helped elect Barack Obama.

A terrorist attack like the one on an Indian Army camp in Uri "escalates tensions", United States have said, asking Pakistan to take action against UN-designated terrorist outfits and delegitimise them.

South Australia is the country's fifth most populous state, with 1.7 million people and Adelaide as its capital, and is a major wine producer and traditional manufacturing hub.

The debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was the most watched US presidential debate ever with 84 million viewers.