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Nutrition and Halloween do not necessarily go hand in hand. While many parents may go to great lengths to ensure their youngsters’ Halloween treats offer at least a little nutritional value, the bulk of cos-tumed kids’ hauls still tends to be candy.

Pumpkin seeds are one delicious yet often overlooked Halloween treat. According to Healthline, an online medical resource that aims to educate readers as they pursue their health and overall well-being, pumpkin seeds provide a host of health benefits. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates that a single cup of pumpkin seeds can provide as much as 22 percent of a person’s daily recommended value of dietary fiber. In addition, pump-kin seeds are loaded with vitamin K, which plays a role in blood clotting and bone metabolisms and helps to regulate blood calcium levels.

Pumpkin seeds tend to be easi-ly accessible come Halloween, as they’re right inside the pumpkins many who celebrate this ghoulish holiday turn into jack-o’-lanterns. When carving pumpkins this Hal-loween, people can forgo relegating pumpkin seeds to the garbage can in favor of cooking them. The follow-ing are some tips, courtesy of Whole Foods, to help Halloween celebrants prepare and cook pumpkin seeds.

How To Prepare And Cook Pumpkin Seeds

• Remove seeds from the inner cavity. Pumpkin seeds may some-times be covered in excess pulp. Upon removing the seeds from the inner cavity, wipe off the pulp and then spread the seeds out evenly on a paper bag, allowing them to dry overnight.

• Place the seeds in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Once the seeds have dried, they can be placed in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Roast the seeds in the oven at a tempera-ture between 160 and 170 F for 15 to 20 minutes. Whole Foods notes re-searchers found that roasting pump-kin seeds for more than 20 minutes can lead to unwanted changes in the fat structure of the seeds. To avoid such changes, make sure the seeds are not roasted for more than 20 minutes.

Once they have been roasted, pumpkin seeds can be served as-is as a delicious snack. Whole Foods notes that seeds also can be sprin-kled into mixed green salads. Pump-kin seeds can even be ground with fresh garlic, parsley and cilantro leaves and then mixed with olive oil and lemon juice to create a delicious salad dressing. Chopped pumpkin seeds also can be added to cereals.

This Halloween, don’t forget to add a little nutrition to celebrations by roasting some pumpkin seeds.

Canada’s Trudeau Wins Second Term But Loses Majority

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Min-ister Justin Trudeau won a second term in Canada’s national elections Monday, losing the majority but de-livering unexpectedly strong results despite having been weakened by a series of scandals that tarnished his image as a liberal icon.

Trudeau’s Liberal party took the most seats in Parliament, giving it the best chance to form a govern-ment. However, falling short of a majority meant the Liberals would have to rely on an opposition party to pass legislation.

“It’s not quite the same as 2015. It’s not all owing to the leader,” said Robert Bothwell, a professor of Ca-nadian history and international re-lations at the University of Toronto. “Trudeau is prime minister because the rest of the party was able to pull itself together and prevail. While Trudeau certainly deserves credit for what has happened he’s really going to have to demonstrate qualities that he hasn’t yet shown.”

Still, the results were a victory for Trudeau, whose clean-cut image took a hit after old photos of him in blackface and brownface surfaced last month.

“I’m surprised at how well Trudeau has done,” said Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto. “I don’t think anybody expected Trudeau to get a majority but they are not that far off.”

- - - -US Diplomat Drawn Into Trump’s Ukraine Effort Set To Testify

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — William Taylor has emerged as an unlikely central player in the events that are at the heart of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

The retired career civil servant was tapped to run the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine after the administration abruptly ousted the ambassador. He was then drawn into a Trump admin-istration effort to leverage U.S. mili-tary aid for Ukraine.

And then he apparently grew alarmed.

“I think it’s crazy to withhold se-curity assistance for help with a political campaign,” he wrote in ex-cerpts of text messages released by impeachment investigators in Con-gress.

Now, members of Congress will hear directly from Taylor. The for-mer Army officer is scheduled to testify behind closed doors Tuesday in an inquiry trying to determine if Trump committed impeachable of-fenses by pressing the president of Ukraine into pursuing information that could help his campaign as Trump withheld military aid to the Eastern European country.

- - - -Erdogan Warns Kurdish Fighters To Pull Out

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turk-ish President Recep Tayyip Erdo-gan said Tuesday up to 1,300 Syrian Kurdish fighters have yet to vacate a northeastern Syrian area invaded by Ankara, hours before a five-day cease-fire between Turkish troops and Syrian Kurdish fighters was set to expire there.

Erdogan said up to 800 Syrian Kurdish fighters have already left under the deal that brought the pause in fighting following Turkey’s incur-sion and renewed threats to resume the offensive if all the Syrian Kurds don’t depart before the deadline runs out at 10:00 p.m.

The Turkish leader spoke to report-ers before traveling to Russia for a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The pullout occurred under the terms of a U.S.-brokered deal for a 120-hour pause in fighting that ex-pires Tuesday night, to allow Syrian Kurdish fighters to leave areas Tur-key controls following its incursion

into northeast Syrian to drive the fighters away from its borders.

Turkey launched the operation into northern Syria on Oct. 9, saying it aimed to push out Syrian Kurdish fighters it considers terrorists and an extension of a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey.

- - - -Democrats’ 2020 Race Has A New Shadow: Hillary Clinton

Some Democrats are putting up caution signs for Hillary Clinton as she wades back into presidential politics by casting 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard as a “Russian asset,” mocking President Donald Trump’s dealings with a foreign leader and drawing counterattacks from both.

Bernie Sanders, who lost the 2016 nomination to Clinton and is running again in 2020, took to Twitter with implicit criticisms of his erstwhile rival. “People can disagree on is-sues,” Sanders wrote Monday, “but it is outrageous for anyone to sug-gest that Tulsi is a foreign asset.”

Larry Cohen, one of Sanders’ top supporters, was more conciliatory but warned in an interview that Clin-ton could harm the eventual 2020 nominee by weighing in against spe-cific candidates, even a longshot like Gabbard.

The former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state has “put a life-time into the Democratic Party. She deserves to be heard,” said Cohen, a prominent member of the Demo-cratic National Committee who also chairs Our Revolution, the spinoff of Sanders’ last presidential campaign. But “in this senior leader role she has,” Cohen said, “it’s her job to em-brace the range of politics within the party and not polarize within it.”

Her scuffle with Gabbard and other recent headlines she’s driven demonstrate that the 71-year-old re-mains a political lightning rod, just as she’s been through much of the last three decades. The dynamics raise questions about how Clinton and her party can best leverage her strengths and navigate her weak-nesses through next November.

- - - -One Of Europe’s Last Wild Rivers Is In Danger Of Being Tamed

ALONG THE VJOSA RIVER (AP) — Under a broad plane tree near Albania’s border with Greece, Jorgji Ilia fills a battered flask from one of the Vjosa River’s many springs.

“There is nothing else better than the river,” the retired schoolteacher says. “The Vjosa gives beauty to our village.”

The Vjosa is temperamental and fickle, changing from translucent cobalt blue to sludge brown to em-erald green, from a steady flow to a raging torrent. Nothing holds it back for more than 270 kilometers (170 miles) in its course through the for-est-covered slopes of Greece’s Pin-dus mountains to Albania’s Adriatic coast.

This is one of Europe’s last wild rivers. But for how long?

Albania’s government has set in motion plans to dam the Vjosa and its tributaries to generate much-needed electricity for one of Europe’s poor-est countries, with the intent to build eight dams along the main river.

- - - -Venezuelans Buy Gas With Cigs To Battle Inflation

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Motorists in socialist Venezu-ela have long enjoyed the world’s cheapest gasoline, with fuel so heav-ily subsidized that a full tank these days costs a tiny fraction of a U.S. penny. But the economy is in such shambles that drivers are now pay-ing for fill-ups with a little food, a candy bar or just a cigarette.

Bartering at the pump has taken off as hyperinflation makes Venezuela’s paper currency, the bolivar, hard to find and renders some denomina-tions all but worthless, so that no-body will accept them.

Without cash in their wallets, driv-ers often hand gas station attendants a bag of rice, cooking oil or whatev-er is within reach.

“You can pay with a cigarette,” said Orlando Molina, filling up his subcompact Ford Ka in Caracas. “Heck, it’s no secret to anyone that it goes for nothing.”

Gas is so dirt-cheap that station at-tendants don’t even know the price. Emptyhanded drivers get waved through, paying nothing at all.

- - - -Johnson Prepares Push To Heave Brexit Bill Over Line

LONDON (AP) — British law-makers from across the political spectrum are expected to challenge Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s drive to push his European Union divorce bill through the House of Commons in three days, potentially scuttling plans to deliver Brexit by Oct. 31.

The bill faces two votes Tuesday, with lawmakers first being asked to approve it in principle, followed by a vote on the government’s schedule for debate and possible amendments.

While many analysts expect the bill to be approved, lawmakers may reject the three-day timetable be-cause of concerns it doesn’t provide enough time for scrutiny.

“Unless you are prepared to con-template more expansive debate, there is not the slightest possibility of considering the deal that has been obtained within the time available,” Ken Clarke, a senior lawmaker re-cently ousted from Johnson’s Con-servative Party, told the Guardian newspaper.

The showdown comes just nine days before Britain’s scheduled de-parture date. Johnson’s government had sought a “straight up-and-down vote” Monday on the agreement he struck last week with the 27 other EU nations laying out the terms of Britain’s exit.

- - - -Naruhito Ascends Chrysanthemum Throne

TOKYO (AP) — Three booming cheers of “Banzai!” rang out Tues-day at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo as Naruhito formally declared his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne as the nation’s 126th emper-or.

As a driving autumn rain brief-ly gave way to sunshine and 2,000 guests looked on, Naruhito pledged at an elaborate, ritual-laden en-thronement ceremony to serve as a symbol of the state for his people. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe con-gratulated him and led the cheers of “Banzai,” which traditionally means “10,000 years.”

The enthronement ceremony is the high point of several succession ritu-als that began in May when Naruhito inherited the throne after the abdica-tion of Akihito, his father. Naruhito leads the world’s oldest hereditary monarchy, which historians say goes back 1,500 years.

The short ceremony, which some critics say was largely meant to al-

low Abe’s ultra-conservative gov-ernment to win public support, was marked by extraordinary contrasts: the rhythmic shuffle of dozens of court dignitaries’ long, stiff, anti-quated robes as they brushed over mats leading to the throne room, and the thunder of cannon salutes rever-berating through the palace.

- - - -Louvre Exhibit Acclaims Da Vinci, 500 Years After His Death

PARIS (AP) — Much about Leon-ardo Da Vinci remains an enigma: the smile of the “Mona Lisa”; why the world’s most famous painter left so many works unfinished; and more recently, who bought the contentious “Salvator Mundi.”

A new exhibit at the Louvre, how-ever, opening Thursday and marking the 500th anniversary of the Italian

master’s death, tries to sketch out as complete a picture of the artist and thinker as possible.

Drawing from the Louvre’s per-manent collection and institutions around the world, the exhibit brings together some 160 works. They in-clude Da Vinci masterpieces, dozens of studies and scientific sketches, and pieces by other artists in Da Vinci’s orbit. Visitors can also ex-perience a virtual reality portion of the exhibit that delves into the story behind the “Mona Lisa.”

“We wished, in order to pay hom-age to the artist, to be able to show the entirety of Leonardo Da Vinci’s career and his development and to explain, ultimately, the sense of his life,” curator Vincent Delieuvin told The Associated Press.

The exhibit runs through Feb. 24, 2020.