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Heavy downpours and flooding have hit Barcelona, triggering red alerts, days after catastrophic floods further south in Valencia. Spain is sending another two and a half thousand soldiers to help with the clean-up, distribute food and water and stop looters. They’ll join five thousand sent over the weekend amid growing anger over the handling of…

One of the things that makes US elections so unpredictable is the electoral college system. It means the winner of the popular vote doesn’t always become president and some states become much more important than others.

We spoke to Matt Terrill, who ran Marco Rubio’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and Susan Platt, who was Chief of Staff to Joe Biden when he was in the Senate. Matt Frei: So at the beginning of the programme, we said that there are two very divergent tones in these final…

After millions of miles travelled and billions of dollars spent – the US presidential election campaign is in its final hours. And the tone of the candidates in these final hours could not be more different. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are spending the day making a final dash for votes, with both holding competing…

Are there people out there who don’t usually vote, young men perhaps, that the polls aren’t picking up and are swinging to Trump in large numbers?

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are making their final pitch to voters, as an American election race that has seen assassination attempts and President Joe Biden stepping aside as a candidate enters its final day.

We speak to Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky, who’s in Pennsylvania, and Republican strategist Kristin Davison, who’s in New Mexico as the campaigns head into the final days.

The US election is now a mere two days away, and Donald Trump is racing around three of the seven crucial swing states, while Kamala Harris is focusing her campaigning on Michigan.

They went to see the damage from Tuesday’s catastrophic floods. Instead, Spain’s King, Queen and Prime Minister had mud and abuse hurled at them in Paiporta – one of Valencia’s worst-hit suburbs.

Spain has sent ten thousand more soldiers and police to the Valencia region to recover bodies and help clear up after catastrophic flooding.

It’s been four months since the Conservatives suffered a drubbing in the general election. Now, the task of rebuilding the party falls to Kemi Badenoch.

America always elects its President on the first Tuesday of November which means that elections always come just after Halloween. 

North Korea’s foreign minister says her country will stand alongside Russia until it achieves victory in Ukraine. 

We last spoke to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University four years ago, before the previous election.

With Tuesday’s election looming, the Biden administration has been expending its last drops of diplomatic energy trying to broker peace between Israel and its foes – both Hamas in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon.