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Polls Open in Zimbabwe
The ballot doesn't have Robert Mugabe for the first time in 38 years.
Today is the first presidential election without Robert Mugabe since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980. The main candidates are current President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition Nelson Chamisa.
A powerful earthquake has struck a popular tourist destination on the island of Lombok in Indonesia, killing at least 14 people.
Nearly 40,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in northern California as strong winds fan dozens of wildfires.
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