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    Californians to decide governor's fate in Republican-backed recall

    United States · 2:39 PM UTC

    California voters will decide on Tuesday whether to recall Governor Gavin Newsom in a special election that will test the power of a Republican Party still dominated by former President Donald Trump in a deeply Democratic state.

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    In Argentina's north, a 'white gold' rush for EV metal lithium gathers pace

    In Argentina's remote northern Salta province, the silence of the desert landscape is broken only by the hum of machinery pumping salt-water brine to extract lithium, a sign of accelerating efforts to ride the global electric vehicle boom.

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