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Friday, 09 November 2018

Voters 30 and younger stepped up to the polls in Tuesday’s midterm elections at an “extraordinary” rate compared with the midterm turnout in 2014, helping Democrats win back a majority in the House of Representatives, analysts say.

On This Day in American History
On November 9, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt leaves the United States for Panama on the first foreign trip ever taken by a U.S. president. He traveled on board the battleship Louisiana. During his time in Panama, Roosevelt visited the site of the future Panama Canal, where preparations for its construction was already underway. The canal, which connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and was administered by the U.S., opened in 1914. After leaving Panama, Roosevelt went to the territory of Puerto Rico and then back to U.S. on November 26.

VIDEO: The political landscape shifted in Washington this week in the wake of the 2018 congressional midterm elections. Opposition Democrats won back control of the House of Representatives while Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate. The election returns amounted to what many see as a split midterm verdict on Donald Trump’s presidency

U.S. President Donald Trump departed early Friday for his trip to France where he and dozens of other world leaders will mark the centenary of the Armistice, which brought an end to the fighting in World War I.

A recent U.S. move against Kurdish militant leaders in Turkey could complicate prospects for peace between the Turkish government and the country’s Kurdish minority, activists and analysts said.

Women’s rights activists who have been calling for Tehran to end a ban on Iranian women attending men’s football matches have taken their campaign to the home of football’s world governing body, FIFA.

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