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Financial Times reports several hundred US lawyers have agreed to volunteer pro bono to monitor next month’s midterm elections — the largest mobilisation of its kind, according to voting-rights groups. Volunteers will support election-integrity nonprofits via election hotlines and litigation against suspected interference, including potential deployment of immigration enforcement to polling places. Former deputy attorney general Seth Waxman said he has worked on election protection since 2004 and has never seen comparable scale in a midterm, adding, This year is completely different.

據沙特媒體哈達斯援引外交消息人士報道，巴基斯坦陸軍參謀長阿西姆·穆尼爾在德黑蘭舉行的會談涉及開闢新的談判渠道。