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Gab.com fights to stay online after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

let them go… down The website where the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue gunman posted anti-Semitic views said on Sunday it was “working around the clock” to stay online after being cut off by payment processors and forced to switch web hosts.

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Lewis Hamilton wins fifth Formula One world title at Mexico Grand Prix

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• Driver celebrates landmark at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
• Champion has no intention of easing off in search of honours

Measured even by the exceptional standard he has set in dominating Formula One Lewis Hamilton, in taking his fifth title in Mexico, has unquestionably raised the bar to new heights. We, like he, should revel in his achievements. If motor racing’s history is defined by drivers, this must surely now be considered the Hamilton era. Delivering the championship was proof, were any needed, that not only is he at the peak of his powers but that as things stand no one can match him.

Max Verstappen won the race for Red Bull but Hamilton’s fourth place was enough to seal the title. The Briton knew what he had to do and delivered, as he has so often this season.

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Sri Lanka faces crisis as two stake claim to be lawful prime minister

They don’t need return of a fascist!

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Incumbent clings to post as president arranges return of strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa

Sri Lanka has been plunged into constitutional crisis as two men claim to be its lawful prime minister, one of them the strongman former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The current president, Maithripala Sirisena, announced late on Friday that he had sacked the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, and replaced him with Rajapaksa, whose 10-year rule was marred by allegations of forced disappearances, brutality and creeping authoritarianism. Yesterday Sirisena suspended parliament until mid-November, stopping Wickremesinghe calling an emergency vote to challenge the decision.

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Saudi Arabia says it is a beacon of light fighting ‘dark’ Iran

ROTFLMAO and sad at same time.

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Foreign minister accuses media of hysteria in reporting the death of Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has described the kingdom as a “vision of light” in the region as it tries to control the fallout from Jamal Khashoggi’s killing – its biggest diplomatic crisis since the 9/11 attacks.

After more than two weeks of international outrage over the journalist and dissident’s death, Adel al-Jubeir sought to portray the country as the moral beacon of the Middle East, in stark opposition to Iran, Saudi Arabia’s arch-rival.

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