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Search teams will fan out across the charred landscape of Paradise, California looking for human remains as authorities prepare for a rise in the death toll from the state’s deadliest wildfire.

President Donald Trump urged Florida election officials to end a recount and declare his fellow Republicans the winners of disputed races in last week’s elections, while Democrats picked up a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona.

Congress returns on Tuesday for a post-election “lame-duck” session, facing a funding deadline to prevent a partial government shutdown, as well as demands for protections for Special Counsel Robert Mueller and money for a proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Commentary: Aggressive monitoring by social media companies seems to have blunted some of the disinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. voters ahead of the Nov. 6 congressional midterm election. But as we look beyond the midterms, there will be a far more dangerous interference tool, one that will be available not only to malign governments, but individual actors as well: deepfake video, write Michael Chertoff, former U.S Secretary of Homeland Security, and Eileen Donahoe, Executive Director at the Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford Centre for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

Democrat Sinema wins Senate seat in Arizona, a state that had not elected a Democratic U.S. senator for 30 years https://reut.rs/2DCNmU1

03:02 AM - Nov 13, 2018

Brexit

Britain and the European Union are on the cusp of a Brexit deal which could be clinched in the next 24 to 48 hours, Prime Minister Theresa May’s de facto deputy said.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May and the European Union are stage managing a Brexit deal that will doom the United Kingdom to the status of a colony, former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said.

World

President Tayyip Erdogan said recordings related to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, which Turkey has shared with Western allies, are “appalling” and shocked a Saudi intelligence officer who listened to them, Turkish media reported.

Exclusive: Juul Labs is exploring selling its compact vaping devices in Asia and has sounded out government officials in Indonesia, one of the world’s most smoker-friendly countries, although gaining approval there could face significant hurdles.

Israel launched more air strikes on Gaza as Palestinians kept up rocket fire on Israeli territory, in the worst surge of violence since a 2014 war. The fighting - that has killed six Palestinians, five of them militants, and a civilian in Israel since Monday - threatened to derail efforts by the United Nations, Egypt and Qatar to broker a long-term truce and head off another major conflict in the impoverished enclave.

Two @Reuters journalists have been imprisoned in Myanmar for 337 days. Follow updates on the case: https://reut.rs/2Qc7QFT

8:02 AM - 13 Nov 2018

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