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I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected. Why? Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump — a demagogue and pathological liar. It’s time to learn a lesson from the progressive and centrist forces in France who, despite profound political differences, came together this week to soundly defeat right-wing extremism. I strongly disagree with Mr. Biden on the question of U.S. support for Israel’s horrific war against the Palestinian people....

One of the areas badly hit by the floods in Switzerland is Matte, in the capital's historic old town. Containing hundreds of 17th- and 18th-Century houses, the old town - surrounded on three sides by the River Aare - is classed as a Unesco heritage site. Hundreds of people have had to be evacuated, Imogen Foulkes reports. Matte is residential but also has waterside cafes and clubs When the rains started at the weekend, the river levels rose, but, at first, not dramatically. Although the Matte district is at water level - and has a canal carrying water from the...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

Unidentified hostage-takers have seized the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital, Berne, police said. The affluent area around the consulate has been sealed off.