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Candlelight vigils to mourn South Korea Halloween disaster victims
Candlelight vigils to mourn South Korea Halloween disaster victims
by  AFP

Candlelight vigils and rallies were expected in South Korea on Saturday to commemorate the 156 people killed in a Halloween crowd crush, with public anger growing over one of the country's deadliest peacetime disasters. Public scrutiny of how the Halloween crowd was managed is mounting, and a wide-ranging probe is under way into the exact cause of the crush.

US Latinos: less predictable at the polls, more focused on pocketbook
US Latinos: less predictable at the polls, more focused on pocketbook
by  AFP

While Latino voters lean Democratic in the run-up to US midterm elections, soaring inflation makes their support less predictable and may compel a shift toward Republican candidates, analysts say. "The alarm for the Democratic Party is that if it doesn't retain its margin of support among Latino voters, it runs the risk of losing key, tightly-contested elections," Dominguez-Villegas added.

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