Pioneering US civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, who advocated for poor farm workers, has died at the age of 96, her family has announced.

The prominent labour organiser campaigned alongside fellow labour leader Cesar Chavez for farm workers’ rights in the 1960s and 1970s, founding the transformative United Farm Workers Union (UFW) with him.

Huerta continued her advocacy work on immigration and voting issues through her foundation, and was presented by former President Barack Obama with a Medal of Freedom in 2012.

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Texas has voted for every Republican president since 1980, but polls show the traditionally Republican state could elect its first Democratic senator in over 30 years. 

So why is the race so close? What are the polls telling us? And what could it mean for the national political picture in the US? 

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Dozens of supermarkets across seven European countries have been hit by a cyber-attack affecting their refrigerators and freezers.

Around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, while a smaller number of shops were hit in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland.

Sabcobel, a Belgian company that manufactures some of the affected refrigerators, said the units’ evaporators were switched to defrost mode, causing them to warm up, in what is believed to be the same method used in last month’s incident that hit hundreds of French supermarkets.

Millions of euros worth of food had to be thrown away in October, local media reported at the time.

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Democrat James Talarico has won a key Senate race in Texas, in what is likely the single biggest upset for Republicans in this year’s elections.

Talarico’s stunning victory over Republican Ken Paxton marks the first time a Democrat has won a US Senate seat in Texas since 1988 – and has helped solidify Democrats taking full control of the US Congress in a tidal wave of wins across the US.

Paxton sought to portray Talarico’s views as too progressive for the state, and campaigned alongside Trump on several occasions.

As the nation’s second most populous state, Texas has been a bastion of conservatism, routinely rolling out Republican policies that are later employed elsewhere.

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It was a scene of carnage in Afghanistan, after twin explosions near Kabul Airport, killed at least 60 people and injured dozens more.
 
 The first blast is thought to have been the work of a suicide bomber, passing among the crowds gathered for more than a week at one of the airport’s main gates, to try to get flights out of the country.

The second was at a nearby hotel. Along with Afghan civilians, 12 US military personnel were killed
 
There had been warnings in recent days that an offshoot of the Islamic State group in the region was planning an attack and ISIS-K has claimed it was behind the bombings.

The Pentagon says evacuation flights will continue, despite the threat of more attacks.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Lyse Doucet and Secunder Kermani in Kabul, Aleem Maqbool in Washington and security correspondent Frank Gardner.

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