Philadelphia / AFP With polls giving her the edge on Election Day, Democratic White House nominee Hillary Clinton said that she planned to work hard to see her party make gains in Congress. Speaking to reporters aboard her campaign plane, the 68-year-old former secretary of state said she no longer wished to respond to the attacks or provocations of her …

  Moscow / AFP Russian security forces have shot dead two people suspected of “terrorism” carrying explosives in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing law enforcement sources. An explosion during the operation injured two special police officers, while a third suspect was detained alive, reports said. “Law enforcement officers stopped a car, two suspects …

  Madrid / AFP Spain’s divided Socialists gathered in Madrid on Sunday for a meeting widely expected to help finally unblock the country’s ten-month political impasse. The party’s policy-setting federal committee is likely to lift a veto that has prevented the conservative Popular Party (PP) forming a minority government. The meeting follows weeks of in-fighting within the Socialists, Spain’s second largest …