
Nigel Farage Terror Plot: Widdecombe Murder Suspect Joshua Kerry Charged
The new terrorism count widens an already grave murder case and puts the security of British politicians back at the center of public debate.
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flydubai co-pilot Australia probe
The AFP has confirmed a joint counter-terrorism team is investigating the FZ1073 co-pilot's 2015–2017 student years in Australia — a third front in the cockpit-attack inquiry.
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Merz Kyiv visit October 2026
Germany's chancellor arrived with €1.35 billion in military and energy support as a Russian drone hit Kyiv's North Bridge and the two sides prepared a joint interceptor-drone deal.
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Trump Hormuz blockade October 2026
CENTCOM narrowed the president's full-strait threat to traffic entering or leaving Iranian ports, while keeping non-Iranian Hormuz transit open.
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Brazil election 2026
Some 158.8 million Brazilians vote today in a first round that pits Lula's fourth-term bid against Flávio Bolsonaro's attempt to restore his family's movement.
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Ethiopian forces seize Mekelle
Federal forces and allied militia retook Tigray's capital after an 11-day reversal, as the TPLF said its regional government would move elsewhere.
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UFC 335 Oliveira vs Lopes
Charles Oliveira's first BMF defense against Diego Lopes tops the Paramount+ year-ender, with Alex Pereira and Sergei Pavlovich meeting at heavyweight.
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Fire Lincoln Riley chants
USC improved to 5-1, but two rounds of chants from the student section showed how a narrow win failed to settle the fifth-year coach's larger argument.
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infections that cause cancer
Infections drove 2.3 million cancer cases in 2024. Vaccines, screening and treatment could prevent many, but poorer countries carry most of the burden.
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OpenAI safety resignation
The veteran behind OpenAI's launch safety reports says iterative deployment guarantees failures and that external pressure is needed to change the incentives.
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Rays Yankees ALDS Game 1
Drew Rasmussen took a no-hitter into the eighth, Jonathan Aranda supplied the only run and Austin Wells turned New York's lone hit into the final out of the inning.
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BREAKING NEWS · JAPAN
Japanese police arrested 20-year-old Marine Devin Jacob Ballard after Anna Yagi, 39, was found dead in a Naha hotel. Ballard denies the allegations.
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Latvia election 2026 results
United List won about 37% and 39 seats as voters backed a hard pro-Ukraine security line. Now Kulbergs must turn a landslide into a coalition.
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Israel Lebanon evacuation orders
Orders covering more than 10 communities now reach north of the Litani River, widening the geography of the conflict as strikes spread across southern Lebanon.
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EU suspends Sierra Leone aid 2026
The European Commission suspended €18M in budget support after the Netherlands said Freetown is shielding convicted Dutch cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers from extradition.
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Addis Ababa drone strikes October 2026
Blasts shook the Ethiopian capital overnight, hours after a blanket drone ban; a seven-group rebel alliance claimed drone strikes on military targets while officials stayed silent.
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Ashton Daniels ran for a program-record five touchdowns and Florida State's defense erupted for 10 sacks as the Seminoles answered an early deficit with 38 straight points.
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Trump vote by mail midterms
After years of calling mail ballots corrupt, Trump told Republicans to use them — a tactical U-turn driven by the turnout math of November 3.
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Jeremiah Smith Ohio State records
Smith caught 11 passes for 206 yards and two touchdowns, breaking three Ohio State career records as the No. 5 Buckeyes controlled No. 14 Iowa.
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Kataib Hezbollah suspends attacks
Militia leader Ahmad al-Hamidawi says operations inside Iraq will stop now that American forces have departed — except for strikes on aircraft the group deems hostile.
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30-year mortgage rates October 2026
Freddie Mac's average jumped from 7.03% to 7.28% in one week as a historic bond selloff tightened housing finance faster than the Federal Reserve.
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missing air ambulance Nantucket
A Bermuda-to-Boston medical-transfer jet lost contact near Nantucket. Six people are missing as Coast Guard aircraft, a helicopter, a lifeboat and a cutter search.
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John Anthony Proia III pleaded not guilty after prosecutors alleged more than 40 calls and texts targeting Katie Miller and her family over seven weeks.
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Gaza apartment strike October 2026
Medics said four women were among five people killed in the al-Asala residential building. Witnesses said families were asleep and received no warning.
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IDF kills Islamic Jihad commanders Gaza
The IDF says both men were rebuilding the militant group's rocket and anti-tank capabilities in violation of the ceasefire — the latest in a string of targeted strikes inside Gaza.
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Bukangi shark Busan canal rescue
High tide lifted the barrier net and Busan's celebrity shark swam back to its old stretch of canal, undoing Friday's rescue effort in a single day.
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judge blocks Trump Seattle prosecutor
Chief Judge Stanley Bastian ruled the president "cannot unilaterally fire" a court-appointed U.S. attorney, restoring Roger Rogoff — the first courtroom win against Trump's purge of federal prosecutors.
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Idaho Montana State football score
Joshua Wood's last-play touchdown and walk-off two-point run gave winless Idaho its first victory over a No. 1 team and blew open the FCS title race.
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Somali deportation orders Minnesota
More than 1,000 Somali asylum-seekers have received deportation orders nationwide since February, with more than half tied to Minnesota, according to a Star Tribune analysis carried by AP.
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Northwestern Penn State score
Northwestern ran for 413 yards, led 24-7 at halftime and overwhelmed Penn State on the rebuilt Ryan Field's opening night.
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Michigan vs Minnesota score
Two Bryce Underwood interceptions erased Michigan's 14-7 halftime lead as Minnesota won the Jug at home for the first time since 1977.
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greg lui nvidia chip smuggling
Federal prosecutors say Earthmade Computer routed high-end GPU servers through Malaysia and Singapore, disguising their final destination in China.
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India Ukraine ceasefire proposal
Four proposals are on Kyiv's table. India's is the only one spanning energy, Black Sea shipping and food security—but Russia has not agreed.
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Indiana Fever exit interviews
Stephanie White wants to return, Kelsey Mitchell reaches a marquee free-agent market, and Caitlin Clark's extension window approaches after another sixth-place finish.
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Five weapons crossed four districts in 15 minutes, authorities said. Moldova summoned Russia's ambassador as the war's spillover sharpened.

Paramount Warner Bros Skydance rebrand
David Ellison is putting the name of his 2006 production company above two century-old studios. The legal name, stock exchange and ticker change Tuesday; the harder integration choices begin after that.
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Gunfire erupted at a packed late-night party at University Plaza, a strip mall roughly a block from Cal State Northridge, killing two people aged 18-25. One person was stabbed, dozens were detained, and a suspect remains at large.
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Vilnius airport drone alert
Lithuania closed its main airport for less than an hour and launched NATO fighters after an unidentified track appeared to approach from Belarus. Officials have not confirmed it was a drone.
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North Korea missile test October 2026
A missile flew more than 700 kilometers from Wonsan. Pyongyang calls it intermediate-range; Seoul and Washington are still testing that claim against the flight data.
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North Korea missile launch October 2026
A missile launched from Wonsan flew more than 700 kilometers. Kim Yo Jong called it an intermediate-range drill, but Seoul, Washington and Tokyo have not confirmed the weapon type.
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nvidia rtx spark AI PC launch
Lenovo and Acer are first in October with Nvidia's Grace-and-Blackwell Windows platform. The performance pitch is bold; price, battery life and retail availability remain the tests.
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Ukraine refinery strikes
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will intensify attacks on Russian refineries while avoiding civilian targets, as both sides harden their positions before winter.
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g7 100 million barrel fuel release
The G7 will send diesel and crude from emergency stocks into the market over four months, front-loading diesel within 20 days. The scale is meaningful—but smaller than one day of global demand.
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The Sudan Doctors Network says footage circulating online shows RSF fighters executing civilians in North Kordofan's Umm Badr area — possibly on ethnic grounds — and is urging a UN investigation. The RSF has not responded.
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Duterte ICC trial witness testimony
Trial Chamber III will admit a protected witness's prior recorded statement and five reports, while limiting prosecutors to one hour of supplementary questioning before the November 30 trial.
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Sanaa airstrikes October 2026
AFP correspondents heard at least five blasts across the Yemeni capital on Saturday as warplanes struck Houthi military sites — the sharpest Saudi–Houthi escalation in years, with a hospital damaged and tens of thousands newly displaced.
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Yemen Taiz offensive Bab al-Mandeb
Taiz is seeing its widest escalation in three weeks as Saudi-backed forces prepare a coastal campaign involving more than 100,000 Yemeni troops. Washington has twice declined requests to join with airstrikes.
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newcastle car hits crowd october 2026
An 18-year-old P-plater's car struck around 1,000 Newcastle Knights fans gathered at Wallsend to farewell the team bus to the NRL Grand Final — 10 injured, including children, two in critical condition.
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Aramco Riyadh fire
A witness told Reuters fire and smoke were seen near an Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday. No one has confirmed the cause or claimed responsibility — but it lands amid the worst Saudi–Houthi escalation since the 2022 truce.
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Panayote Dimitras and Tommy Olsen face up to 20 years as the first migrant-rights defenders ever tried in Greece — for work rights groups call solidarity and prosecutors call a criminal enterprise.
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Tens of thousands marched in Madrid and 50+ Spanish cities on October 3 after parliament rejected emergency tenant protections — the largest housing demonstrations in years, with a possible snap election now looming.
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President Lee Jae Myung ordered a thorough probe into the widening bank data leaks as regulators brought an emergency industry meeting forward to Sunday and signaled an AI-versus-AI security overhaul.
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IRS citizenship question 1040
A draft tax form would make every filer certify citizenship or work authorization under penalty of law, reshaping refundable-credit policy and trust in the IRS.
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Ali al-Amoudi Gaza strike
Israeli media say a pre-dawn Gaza City strike targeted Hamas's de facto Gaza chief. Five Palestinians were killed; al-Amoudi's fate is unconfirmed.
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Lukoil Ukraine oil deal
A $20 billion to $22 billion sale of Lukoil's international assets is now entangled with U.S.-Russia diplomacy over ending the war.
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Philippines China Batanes dispute
Manila says Jia Hai Ke 7 operated 37 nautical miles from Itbayat without consent, opening a strategically charged northern front near Taiwan.
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Rahul Gandhi CEC resignation protests
At least 700 people were detained in Delhi as the opposition moved its fight over voter-roll revisions from Parliament to the streets.
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China Laos air base
A 2,000-meter runway north of Vientiane gives the PLA Air Force its first acknowledged overseas facility — and Southeast Asia a new strategic question.
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Russia strikes Odesa port ship
A Liberian-flagged cargo ship was hit in an Odesa-region port, killing one and injuring three. Moscow confirmed the strike and claimed the vessel carried “dual-use goods.”
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Japan building own CIA spy agency
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pledged a published National Intelligence Strategy after chairing a 17-member expert panel on September 28 — the next step toward a CIA-like foreign spy agency by March 2028.
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Two men were killed and a third wounded at the Punjab border. Pakistan calls them unarmed civilians; Indian reports call them intruders. Islamabad has summoned India's diplomat.
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The first two of 66 new Block 70 fighters have landed after seven years of delay — a delivery that tests Washington's arms credibility as Chinese pressure rises.
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Trump rallied Vandalia Saturday with a vulgarity-laced turnout pitch, a viral Ramaswamy child mishap, and a Gruden cameo — one month before Ohio's Senate and governor races.
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Kumkum Mohod archery gold Asian Games
The 17-year-old beat South Korea's Oh Yejin 6-5 with a 10 in the shoot-off, winning India's first women's individual recurve title and securing an LA 2028 quota place for the country.
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India defended 211 for 6 to beat Pakistan by 19 runs in the Asian Games men's cricket final at Nisshin — retaining gold from Hangzhou 2023 and completing a golden double after the women's triumph.
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Russian oligarch son sues California
Vitaly Yusufov's N17 sued Menlo Park on October 2, three days after the council rejected its 39-story Willow Park towers for the old Sunset Magazine campus. The twist: his father is a Putin-aligned ex-minister now facing Treasury sanctions calls.
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Tigray Peace Forces Mekelle airport
A pro-government militia claims it holds Alula Aba Nega Airport and is “clearing” Mekelle. Reuters and AFP could not verify the claim.
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Hegseth Pentagon religious affairs office
The new office promises chaplains a voice at the Pentagon's top table. Its direct line to Hegseth also turns religious support into a test of command neutrality, constitutional limits and trust across the force.
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Apple Pay India launch
Apple has finally entered India with Axis Bank credit cards, but its narrow Visa-and-Mastercard launch leaves UPI, RuPay and the country's biggest issuers outside the wallet.
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Lhuan-dre Pretorius hit an unbeaten 188 off 79 balls for the Titans, passing Chris Gayle's 13-year-old men's T20 record. His 15 fours and 13 sixes powered a 124-run win over the Knights.
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Nigel Farage terror plot
Joshua Kerry, already accused of murdering former MP Ann Widdecombe, has been charged with preparing terrorist acts including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
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Trump boat strike memo ruling
A 66-page federal ruling finds the Pentagon treated a classified OLC opinion as binding law for a lethal campaign that has killed more than 230 people — and law, the judge says, cannot be kept secret.
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Trump $90 seniors checks October 2026
The White House says most Medicare Part B enrollees will receive $90 in early October. The $1.8 billion math nearly empties a $2 billion fund, while legal authority remains unresolved.
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Trump one night Iran nuclear claim
Seven months into the war, Trump says his four-to-six-week forecast concerned only Iran's nuclear threat. His documented March remarks described the war and its full objectives.
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G20 excess industrial capacity
A handful of G20 members blocked Washington's excess-capacity language, exposing a divide that private concern about cheap exports could not bridge.
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Columbia journalism admissions pause
International applications fell sharply amid visa uncertainty, contributing to a one-year admissions pause for Columbia's specialized Master of Arts program.
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UN $160 million forgotten crises
UN relief chief Tom Fletcher announced $160 million for 12 underfunded crises — with a first-ever disability set-aside. But in five of these countries, aid workers can't get in.
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Georgia voting machines illegal
Georgia's election board asked the Justice Department to prohibit QR-code vote tabulation and impose a six-month transition. The request is not a ruling, and voting procedures have not changed.
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Kharkiv guided bomb strike
Kharkiv's reported toll rose to two killed and about 32 wounded after strikes damaged homes, apartments, a business and a school. A Shahed attack killed one in Sumy.
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Irkutsk plague lab worker death
A 28-year-old researcher died of plague in Siberia; ~200 contacts are under observation with no confirmed secondary cases. The pneumonic form is suspected but unconfirmed.
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Trump Cornell 7 fair shake
Trump called James “corrupt” as she took over the active criminal investigation. The accused men deny wrongdoing and have not been charged.
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Sudan army captures al-Mazroub
The SAF says it took a key North Kordofan junction and disrupted RSF supply lines. The battlefield claim and loss figures remain unverified.
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South Korea oil recovery deal
Trump announced an $8.4 billion enhanced oil recovery project. Seoul says it was not in the agreement, extending a pattern of headline investments that still require Korean review.
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Lovlina Borgohain Asian Games gold
On her 29th birthday, Borgohain beat China’s Bao Ziyi 5-0 in the women’s 75kg final — turning a close semifinal into a decisive title and becoming only India’s second female Asian Games boxing champion.
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Six tankers were struck in the Strait of Hormuz in a single week — the sharpest wave of attacks on commercial shipping since the strait effectively closed. Brent crude reclaimed $100. No one has claimed responsibility.
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Hegseth troops day off vote midterms
Pete Hegseth ordered commanders to give troops "maximum scheduling flexibility" — a one-day stand down by October 15 to register, request ballots and vote. The first military-wide voting stand down since 2021, landing one month before the midterms.
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florida texas governor races 2026
Cook Political Report moved the Florida and Texas governor races from Likely to Lean Republican, citing Trump's poor approval — and Democrats can now see a path to a majority of governorships for the first time since 2010.
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An unidentified projectile sparked a fire near Aramco's Yanbu North Terminal on October 1, briefly halting crude loadings. Responsibility remains unconfirmed.
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Stray Kids BTS Grammy boycott
Two of K-pop's biggest acts are sitting out the 2027 Grammys over a new language-defined category. The Academy calls it visibility; the artists see a border.
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Houthi missile attacks Saudi Arabia
Debris injured a resident and pierced a prayer hall in Asir after a missile interception, one day after a projectile damaged a Najran school. The deeper test is whether defense can outrun escalation.
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UAE Zero Hormuz oil bypass
Abu Dhabi is funding a route around the world's most dangerous oil chokepoint, doubling export capacity through Fujairah by 2027 — but the bypass has risks of its own.
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Riyadh is weighing a limited coastal attack or a broader multi-front campaign led by Yemeni forces, with U.S. intelligence support and regional allies drawn into a dangerous new test.
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Trump consulted Grok Maduro capture
A single unnamed official says Trump spent hours questioning Grok about Venezuelan reaction. The account raises a larger question: who audits commercial AI in national-security decisions?
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Trump Poland military base
Trump said a permanent Army base “could happen,” then hinted a decision may already exist. His remarks tied Poland, Ukraine, Iraq and Venezuela into one test of U.S. commitments.
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Letitia James Cornell rape case
New York's attorney general takes over after Hochul said omissions from Cornell's police report undercut confidence in the local investigation.
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The first serving British soldier to die in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion was not killed in combat. The coroner found that George Hooley died after an explosion during a Ukrainian weapons test away from the front.
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Trump publicly singled out the Arkansas senator as the Senate barrier to permanent daylight saving time. The Nov. 1 clock change is now unavoidable.
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Daniel Boulud new restaurant NYC
Brasserie Boulud opens October 8, joining three former Upper West Side concepts in one 10,000-square-foot, all-day French restaurant.
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DOJ unsealed a Hamas terror finance indictment as France arrested three associates and Treasury issued sanctions — over $1.7M raised as fake Gaza aid. Full analysis.
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A revenue miss, deep China contraction and guidance far below Wall Street's expectations turned Nike's long reset into a sharper test of relevance, execution and time.
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Treasury sanctions A7 Network Russia
Washington has labeled a Russian financial network a major criminal organization and is moving to close the dollar and crypto routes it allegedly built for Iran and other sanctioned actors.
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Braves Phillies Game 3 NLDS
Braves Phillies Game 3 NLDS ends 6-2 as Atlanta advances to face the Dodgers, with three home runs and a historic two-role effort from Chris Sale.
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Arsenal Paris FC Williamson penalty
Arsenal Paris FC Williamson penalty drama turned a 2-0 lead into a 2-2 UWCL draw, while Lyon and Chelsea fought to a VAR-shaped goalless stalemate.
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FTC probe OpenAI Anthropic agents
FTC probe OpenAI Anthropic agents inquiry targets autonomous-system risks after reported safety-test breaches, but no wrongdoing finding has been made.
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Paris Fashion Week 2026 highlights
Maxhosa Africa’s official-calendar first reshapes an SS27 week of debuts, transitions and high-stakes house resets.
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Drishyam 3 box office collection
Ajay Devgn’s franchise finale opened strongly after 13 lakh advance tickets, with a crowded October slate waiting.
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Hōlei Sea Arch collapse
A volcanic icon at the end of Chain of Craters Road vanished while the park was closed for Tropical Storm Nolo.
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Kilauea volcano eruption October 2026
A shallow magma intrusion, quake swarm and summit restrictions put Hawaii’s most active volcano back in focus.
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BladeOne New York Florida flights
Private terminals, 16 seats and fares from $2,450: the practical guide to BladeOne’s seasonal relaunch.
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California No Robo Bosses Act
California No Robo Bosses Act bars AI-only firing and discipline, requires human corroboration and written notice, and takes effect July 1, 2027.
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G7 strategic diesel reserves release
The G7 will release 100 million barrels of diesel and other petroleum reserves over four months, front-loading distillate after Trump threatened a U.S. export ban.
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Amazon Nvidia chips investors deal
Amazon is discussing a special-purpose vehicle that would buy about $8 billion of Nvidia chips and lease them back, shifting ownership without moving the hardware.
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Sony QSSR base PS5
Sony has pushed its AI upscaler beyond PS5 Pro, and the first two games reveal both the visual gains and the hard performance cost on older silicon.
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Iranian flights Najaf waiver
Baghdad won a rare sanctions carve-out after a week-long suspension stranded pilgrims and stirred street protests, while Washington keeps military pressure on Iran.
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RAF Fairford Iran plot
A sixth arrest in Westminster and Burnham's “strong indications” of Tehran's hand have turned a suspected plot against American bombers into a diplomatic crisis.
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September jobs report 2026
Hiring slowed to 29,000 jobs, unemployment rose to 4.2% and wage growth hit a five-year low in the final official labor snapshot before the November elections.
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Around 1:00 AM on October 2, a junta jet bombed a displacement shelter at Aungphyupyin village in Ponnagyun Township, wounding three civilians — the latest in a 48-hour wave of airstrikes across Rakhine and flood-hit Tanintharyi that has drawn UN condemnation and a Fortify Rights war-crime accusation.
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Ethiopian forces close in Mekelle
Banks and shops shut as federal troops and allied militia neared Tigray's capital, while diplomatic ruptures raised the risk of a wider Horn conflict.
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US suspends consular services Brazil
Washington cited unspecified security concerns but did not connect the nationwide consular pause to Brazil's election. The timing lands inside a widening diplomatic dispute.
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US Patriot batteries Saudi Arabia
Washington has quietly moved two Patriot batteries into the Gulf to shield Saudi and Qatari energy sites, Axios reports — the clearest sign yet the US is keeping the option of renewed Iran strikes alive. Why Riyadh's airspace permission is the key to everything.
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Yemen hunger crisis
Three in four households in government-held Yemen are skipping meals as renewed fighting displaces families, disrupts imports and pushes hunger to a record, WFP says.
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DNC sues over overseas voting
Democrats say the Pentagon and OMB unlawfully erased a form option used by citizens born abroad. The legal fight now collides with ballots already moving across borders.
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Trump NATO naughty nice list
The Pentagon invited six European allies to a November working session in Poland — and left out Britain, France, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The spending logic does not fully explain the line.
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Zelenskyy says intercepted intelligence shows Putin ordered attacks on civilian infrastructure. The intercepts have not been released or independently verified.
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Krasnozavodsk chemical plant explosion
Seven were reported killed and Workshop No. 4 destroyed at a Moscow-region plant linked to Shahed warheads. The toll was unconfirmed; early reports pointed to a technical cause, not an attack.
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developing countries debt crisis 2026
Energy inflation, the strongest El Niño since 1950 and multi-decade borrowing costs are colliding. UNDP says the strain could push many countries into financial distress.
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From an Abu Dhabi hospital bed, the wounded flydubai captain describes the final push that opened FZ1073's cockpit door and let others stop the plunge.
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U.S. funding ended in July and the bridge money is gone. Almost half a million Sudanese just lost the clinics, clean water and food programs keeping them alive.
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Three years after Israeli bombs levelled the Al-Taj 3 building, Gaza buried 105 recovered victims together — the fifth-largest recovery operation of the war.
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Kyiv says September cost Russia 46,230 troops — the heaviest month of 2026, and the war's worst single day. The attrition math behind the record, and what it means for the winter ahead.
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Israel says its Gaza strikes target truce-violating Hamas fighters; Hamas and mediators say the raids undermine the deal. What each side claims it allows.
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Trump promised a severe strike if investigators connect Iran to the FlyDubai cockpit attack. No evidence making that link has been released publicly.
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OpenAI says three researchers mishandled sensitive company information outside approved channels. The disputed firings sharpen the conflict between independent safety review and corporate secrecy.
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Portland reversed its TV play-by-play hire after racist and misogynistic posts Bell wrote at about 15 resurfaced. The team admitted its vetting failed.

President Lee demands that Kyiv acknowledge a confidentiality agreement and apologize, turning two transferred prisoners into a test of wartime trust, aid and leverage.
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Israel raises readiness before the third anniversary while targeted Gaza strikes continue and the year-old ceasefire remains stuck between disarmament and withdrawal.
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Kenan Urker was found dead at his Raceland home on his 34th birthday. Authorities are investigating; Blanchard believes he died from an overdose, but no official cause has been announced.
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Kylie Kelce apologized to the Princess of Wales for calling her "Princess Kate" — and re-invited her onto "Not Gonna Lie" to chitchat about field hockey and kids.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs is back in solitary at FCI Fort Dix while officials investigate claims of pampered prison life — inmate servants, massages, a contraband phone, smuggled Hennessy.
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A 3-year-old pulled a loaded handgun from his backpack in a Canton Township daycare classroom. His parents were charged Oct. 1 — and his father is a Detroit police officer.
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Yemen's armed forces said warplanes flew 20 to 27 precision strikes on Houthi positions across Taiz on October 2, as the UN's envoy warned of "serious risks to the civilian population."

Two Trump check promises, two very different realities: $500 is in the mail for 950,000 people in 30 states, while the $5,000 dividend needs Congress first. The side-by-side breakdown.
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Mesias Lojano, 59, was stabbed four times on a packed rush-hour J train near Woodhaven Boulevard. Police say suspect Jyrell Thomas, 25, never knew him — the attack was unprovoked.
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The US average is $4.41 a gallon after a record September. How the Hormuz closure, tanker attacks, and export bans flow straight to your pump.
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Three carriers, 50,000 troops, and Trump's warning that bombing Iran after the November midterms is 'possible.' What the buildup actually means.
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A Bell 430 went down near Marondera with six people aboard. Five victims have been publicly named, while investigators face an early conflict in the official count.
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Andre Szmyt's career-long 56-yard field goal with 10 seconds left lifted Cleveland into sole possession of first place in the AFC North after Pittsburgh erased an 11-point halftime deficit.
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Medics and UNICEF reported ten dead and 60 injured across two strikes as drone attacks on El Obeid's civilian sites intensify.
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Putin tied diesel exports to sanctions relief at Valdai, saying Moscow won't supply fuel until sanctions lift — claiming Ukrainian strikes cost 1% of GDP.
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Beijing suspended refined-fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau and PetroChina canceled October gasoline and jet fuel shipments — a double shock that sent Brent above $100 just as Washington moves another carrier toward the Gulf.
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Trump opened a 32-day campaign blitz on a Denton factory floor, pitching manufacturing, trying to rescue Ken Paxton and reviving North Korea intrigue with Dennis Rodman.
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The Survivor alum took the $750,000 prize — plus America's Favorite Houseguest — in a finale-night sweep over Taylor Brown.
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The Saudi-led coalition says drone wreckage links the Houthis to a strike on a station serving the Prophet's Mosque. The Houthis deny responsibility.
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The China Russia veto Iran sanctions clash went to the General Assembly on Thursday, where member states debated the two vetoes that killed the UN's independent panel monitoring Iran's nuclear program — leaving a 400-kilogram uranium blind spot in wartime.
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The order followed a deadlock over Iran's nuclear program, the U.S. naval blockade and the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran says the departure was scheduled.
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Palestinian officials said settlers shot two people in Yasuf, killing Mashour Yassin, 51, at his home. Israel's military said it was checking the incident.
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Treasury says more than 950,000 $500 payments are on the way. A Reuters analysis finds 71% of the money flows to 13 political battlegrounds.
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A rare warning from inside Trump world turns the Iran war's strategic debate into an electoral one, as fuel costs and public confidence pressure Republican candidates.
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CNN traced Affinity Partners' Phoenix Financial stake to a portfolio with Israeli military suppliers, raising conflict questions as Jared Kushner works on Gaza diplomacy.
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Two crew members were killed, two people were hospitalized and the patient being flown to the mainland remained missing as rescuers searched waters off Pebbly Beach.
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Germany's Merz warned Russian hybrid attacks will escalate across Europe, with NATO chief Rutte urging allies to prepare for a 'dark winter' of sabotage.
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At Moscow's Valdai Forum, the Russian president publicly thanked India's leader for pressing the peace case at every meeting — a rare endorsement that puts New Delhi's mediator ambitions back on the table.
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Putin rejected a long-range-strikes ceasefire at Valdai, dismissing a Kyiv-Washington plan as Ukrainian refinery raids and Russian grid attacks continued.
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At the Euronews Defence & Space Summit in Brussels, NATO chief Mark Rutte called the US war on Iran “absolutely essential,” said only America could take out Iran’s nuclear capability — and told Europe to take care of its own backyard within 10 years.
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USS Makin Island (LHD-8) is sailing to the Middle East with the 13th MEU. What the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship is — and why it is not an aircraft carrier.
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USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) left San Diego on Sept 28 as the third U.S. carrier bound for the Middle East. Inside the Nimitz-class giant and its nuclear-powered punch.
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USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is already stationed in the Middle East as tensions with Iran rise. The last Nimitz-class carrier's specs, history and mission.
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USS George Washington (CVN-73) left its Japan homeport to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln. Why the forward-deployed carrier is now in the Middle East.
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The USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group and USS Makin Island amphibious group sailed from San Diego with roughly 9,000 to 10,000 sailors and Marines. If the USS George Washington stays, Washington could field three carrier strike groups in the region as President Donald Trump weighs renewed strikes on Iran after the midterms.
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A ruling-party lawmaker's immediate exit after the demolition of a 50-year-old maternal and child clinic tests whether a dramatic accountability signal will be followed by a full investigation.
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Appeals court calendar
The 11th Circuit set November 2 arguments on whether the classified-documents report can be released, putting transparency and privilege in collision on election eve.
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Two federal lawsuits turn a disputed Minneapolis shooting into a far-reaching test of accountability for Operation Metro Surge and the officials who designed it.
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The justices will decide whether the government may keep immigrants locked up without bond hearings throughout deportation cases that can last months or years.
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Africa posted the world's fastest cargo-capacity expansion in August, but demand rose just 3% and Africa–Asia traffic contracted, putting pricing and utilization under pressure.
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Putin warned at Valdai that any attack on Kaliningrad would unleash 'all weapons,' invoking Russia's nuclear doctrine and its 'isolation of territory' clause.
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Israel says a slain Radio Quran presenter took part in the October 7 attack and has published 170 alleged militant-media names. The claims remain independently unverified.
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Three databases moved in a single week — and the most-cited casualty figure of the Gaza war no longer says what it used to.
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Bolivia detained its sitting attorney general with 13 others after U.S. bribery allegations and claims from captured trafficker Sebastián Marset, opening a high-stakes test of justice, evidence and political power.

Consumer prices rose 1.0% from a year earlier as transport, housing and energy accelerated, complicating the Swiss National Bank's zero-rate stance.
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Eritrea severed all diplomatic ties after Ethiopia shut its Asmara mission and gave 10 Eritrean diplomats 48 hours to leave, eliminating the neighbors' main crisis channel.

Kanye West's planned Russia concerts collapsed as the St. Petersburg show was cancelled, ending a controversial bid to perform in wartime Russia.
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A new AP-NORC poll puts Trump's approval at 31%, a career low, with 69% disapproving and two-thirds of Americans blaming his policies for the cost of living — 33 days before the midterms.
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Trump heads to Durant for Mike Mazzei and Kevin Hern as severe storms, flash-flood risk and planned protests turn a routine midterm stop into a test of GOP energy.
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Kpler tracked 12.5 million barrels a day of Gulf exports as Saudi Arabia restored half of its East-West pipeline capacity faster than analysts expected.
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The relentless global bond selloff is challenging richly valued AI shares and the long-awaited 60-40 portfolio revival, even after softer U.S. inflation data.
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Exports surged 83.5% from a year earlier as Samsung and SK Hynix rode the AI memory supercycle, lifting the KOSPI despite pressure from global bond yields.
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Kashkari says inflation is still too high: the Minneapolis Fed president kept the door open to another rate hike, saying softer PCE data changed nothing.
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The rapper pleaded not guilty after his ex-girlfriend alleged an August assault. His lawyers call the accusations wrongful; arraignment is set for October 22.
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Justice officials say the U.S. request is in final legal review. A Philippine court must still weigh the treaty, local cases and Quiboloy's defense.
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The Bank of Ghana will refresh notes from GH¢1 to GH¢200 with stronger security. Existing cash remains legal tender, and officials say there is no rush to exchange.
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Prosecutors allege pledges were ordered to cut and package cocaine as part of fraternity activity. All defendants are presumed innocent unless proved guilty.
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India received 759.4 mm of seasonal rain, about 13% below normal. Regional gaps now threaten harvests, winter planting and food-price stability.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they broke up a militant cell before it could strike. Independent reporting confirms fighting, but not the identities or intent of those killed.
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Zelenskyy said Ukraine hit Russian oil, drone, maritime and military targets overnight — including the Samara refinery — as 'just responses' to Moscow's war.
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The longtime foes reportedly agreed to avoid hostility, but no final deal emerged on arms smuggling, sleeper cells or Lebanon's effort to disarm Hezbollah.
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Pole-sitter Verstappen lost acceleration, Hamilton's Ferrari froze on the formation lap, and a red flag suspended the start — chaos on F1's return to Sepang after nine years.
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Crew Dragon Grace is racing toward an under-eight-hour rendezvous after Falcon 9 carried four astronauts from Cape Canaveral on a six-month science mission.
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A reported five-year lease for remote access to roughly 100,000 advanced chips shows how controls on moving hardware can leave overseas computing capacity available.
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The startup says VCSEL links could let one accelerator reach 220 memory chips, attacking the physical wiring limit that constrains today's AI systems.
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Micron's strong report reinforced the AI-memory thesis across Japan and South Korea, even as a Treasury selloff challenged expensive growth-stock valuations.
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Asked in a Time interview if he regrets nominating Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh, Trump answered 'Yeah. Yeah' — after they ruled against him on tariffs and mail ballots.
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Lee Jae Myung paired an invitation to renew dialogue with North Korea with Seoul's boldest naval pledge yet — and a new push to take back wartime command.
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A Tuesday-evening tip triggered an overnight investigation and a 3 a.m. SWAT arrest. The Capitol stayed open as state and federal authorities pursued possible additional charges.
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Gunfire killed seven bus passengers and wounded four in western Homs. The attackers and motive remain unknown, leaving investigators with a high-stakes test.

Russia fired nearly 190 drones and missiles at Ukraine's energy grid in its heaviest barrage since spring, killing seven and forcing emergency blackouts.

Speaking from a command post rather than Kyiv, Ukraine's president turned a national day of remembrance into a message about battlefield endurance, political unity and leverage in any peace talks.

COVERAGE CLIFF BEGINS
Refugees, asylees, trafficking survivors and Afghan interpreters are among the first people losing coverage under last year's budget law. State counts already exceed the federal forecast.
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EARNED PROGRESSION BEGINS
Earned Progression lets eligible offenders leave after a third of their custodial term — and with prisons at 97% capacity, ministers say the choice was release or collapse. Victims, police and probation say the public will pay the price.
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AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT
Treasury is replacing an opt-in bottleneck with automatic accounts for eligible children. The shift widens access, but parents must still claim an account and separately elect the $1,000 deposit.
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TRADE DEADLINE SEASON
Dallas paid a 2028 second-round pick and a 2027 sixth for the 26-year-old corner — and handed Pittsburgh a clean exit from a contract fight it was losing.
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CIVILIANS / ENERGY / SECURITY
The same-day pairing of a pipeline explosion and a bus ambush exposes how fragile security and energy are in post-Assad Syria.
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FLAGSHIP MODEL, GUARDED DEBUT
Google's largest Gemini model opens first to selected cyber defenders, pairing million-token output with low introductory pricing and unresolved questions about real-world performance.
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FROM REFORM TO PROSPERITY
Tinubu says Nigeria has crossed its own Red Sea after three painful years of reform. With hardship still biting and the 2027 election near, voters will test that promise.
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FASTER DECISIONS / ALLIED COVER
Warsaw is replacing a visual-identification hurdle with a radar-based test just as Swedish fighters return to protect the Rzeszow aid hub. The gain is speed; the risk is escalation under uncertainty.
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Santo Domingo barred Haiti's national team from its venues a day after crowd trouble at the Félix Sánchez stadium — turning a 4-1 Haitian win into the latest front in the island's deepening divide, with a FIFA complaint now in play.
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COLA / BENEFITS / INFLATION
The Senior Citizens League projects the biggest cost-of-living adjustment in four years. The official number lands October 14 — and September's inflation data will decide the final tenth of a point.
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BENEFITS / COLA / STATE BUDGETS
The maximum rises to $1,023 for a family of four and the minimum reaches $25. But a modest household COLA arrives with a much larger transfer of federal costs to the states.
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SEOUL PUSHBACK / ALASKA LNG
Seoul says no investment decision or dollar amount was agreed—and the project advances only if it proves commercially viable and clears Korean law.
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NUCLEAR / LNG / AI POWER
Eight reactors and a 6.4-gigawatt Texas power project are broadly agreed. Alaska LNG is not: Seoul says the $54 billion pipeline remains under commercial review.
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CHIPMAKER TURNS LENDER
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to finance TPU chip leases, the IPO prospectus reveals — making the chipmaker its supplier, lessor and lender all at once, and the purest example yet of AI's circular financing.
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IMMIGRATION COSTS
Permanent residency applications rise from ¥10,000 to ¥200,000 on October 1, while millions of other residents face a new tiered renewal-fee system.
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EXECUTION ATTEMPT FAILED
Tennessee injected Pike twice, but she remained alive with a heartbeat and was taken to a hospital as emergency court filings challenged the state's secretive protocol.
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CROSS-BORDER ESCALATION
Afghanistan's Taliban government says nine civilians were killed, 11 injured and three homes destroyed in Kunar and Helmand. Reuters could not independently verify the claims; Pakistan has not responded.
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FEDERAL FORCE / ACCOUNTABILITY
A joint Texas Tribune investigation used federal records, a witness identification and an official's confirmation to name the retired-then-rehired agent.
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SANCTIONS / SPACE
Kyiv wants Washington to choke off the component supply chain behind Russia's Rassvet satellite constellation before an October 18 sanctions deadline.
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Washington says growing weapons, drone and training ties could put the Bab el-Mandeb shipping corridor under pressure from both shores.
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INDIA / LAW
Six years after their arrests, both men remain in jail without a trial. The High Court says judicial discipline binds it to the Supreme Court's January order.
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IMMIGRATION POLICY
The department says violations, crimes, fraud, calls for violence and national-security risks drove a record revocation total, including 2,300 cases tied to birth tourism.
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COURTS
A federal judge in Oakland ruled the administration skipped required rulemaking before imposing the unprecedented charge. The White House extended the fee anyway — and a permanent $103,000 version is already in the pipeline.
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INVESTIGATION
Captain Smit Machchhar opened the cockpit despite grave wounds, passengers subdued the attacker and relief pilots landed in Tabuk. Now the questions turn to motive, vetting and accountability.
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Gill’s unbeaten 223 and Rohit Sharma’s 101 turned West Indies’ first 400-plus ODI total into India’s biggest chase, completed with 39 balls to spare.
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Tesla has lined up $30 billion of undrawn credit to finance an AI-and-robotics buildout that could consume more than $25 billion in capital spending this year.
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Tehran's Janfada campaign is moving from mass sign-up claims to military training for teenagers, reviving a dangerous Basij precedent.
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Chinar Corps confirmed the LeT commander died in Operation Korag's overnight cordon in Yousmarg — the biggest counter-terror success in central Kashmir this year.
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The watchdog found no crime or administrative misconduct, but a $1 billion overrun handed Trump a new pressure point in his campaign against Powell and the Fed.
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Portugal's record scorer walked out after an 18-year first on the bench. His promised explanation may decide whether 234 caps mark a finish or a fracture.
Read the full analysisThe Ratepayer Protection Act failed 57-43 as four Democrats broke ranks. Both parties just turned your power bill into the closing argument of the midterms.
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A $967 million U.S. import ban now blocks Canadian whisky, whey and big-engine motorcycles, escalating a far larger fight over tariffs and USMCA.
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Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton met in the only scheduled debate of California's governor race — days before mail ballots go out. The polls, the promises, and what's actually at stake.

The papal envoy's third Moscow visit kept a rare humanitarian channel open on prisoners, children and civilians — while leaving the war's hardest political questions unresolved.

Ukraine's president toured a command post near Lyman, hailing the counteroffensive that blocked Russia's push on the Donbas fortress cities — and promised more ground robots and drones.

Hegseth paired a four-star command for AI, drones and robotics with a plan to eliminate or downgrade one in five general and flag officer billets.
Read the full analysisIran has received Washington's response to a seven-day trust-building plan. The hard part is no longer the list of concessions — it is who must move first.
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A head constable allegedly opened fire inside a CISF camp at the Sewa-II hydroelectric project. An assistant commandant was among four personnel killed.
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The two leaders put trade back at the center of their strategic partnership as Piyush Goyal begins a week of negotiations in the United States.
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A reporting mandate tied to nine American deaths and potential limits on U.S. aid to Israel failed along nearly perfect party lines, with Rand Paul and John Fetterman the exceptions.
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Defence Minister Khawaja Asif ties the pledge to the August Mecca Joint Defense Agreement with Turkey, as Houthi missiles and drones strike the kingdom with growing frequency.
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Iran executes two protesters in Mashhad over killings during the January uprising, extending a postwar execution wave that rights groups say now includes 31 men.
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Omar al-Bashir, 82, was transferred from Merowe to a military-run hospital in Khartoum for tests and treatment, his lawyer confirmed — as his family says getting him out of Sudan has become "critical and urgent."
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Belgium's defence minister says hybrid pressure will intensify this winter, exposing Europe's air-defence, stockpile and attribution gaps as Russian strikes test NATO's eastern flank.
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Mohammed Dahlan's faction are backing a consensus list for the November 28 vote, turning shared opposition to Mahmoud Abbas into an unlikely coalition.
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The pontiff invoked Benedict XV's ignored 1917 appeal, rejected rearmament as a sufficient answer and pressed Russia and Ukraine to sit down — without saying what either side should surrender.
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Amjad Farid says Washington's 90-day proposal could entrench rival rule unless the RSF first leaves Sudanese cities under international monitoring.
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Putin fused defense, veterans, annexation claims and a three-year budget into the opening message for Russia's ninth State Duma.
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A divided Sixth Circuit halted the 10 a.m. execution so it could examine whether Pike's childhood sexual abuse was properly considered. Tennessee has asked the Supreme Court to lift the stay.
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Three compound team finals brought three golds: a record-equalling women's 238, a 20–19 mixed shoot-off and a one-point men's comeback against China.
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New UN and aid-agency figures show mass flight converging with cholera, dengue, measles and a health system that was already operating at only 60 percent capacity.
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Trump says he told Zelenskyy to "take it easy on the refineries" as diesel prices climb — but Kyiv will halt its drone campaign only for a reciprocal Russian energy truce, and Zelenskyy denies being pressured.
Mindgard says two Moonshot models dropped their safety guardrails, volunteered further harmful ideas and exposed a second path toward cyber abuse.
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Days after Malaysia deported 1,500 Myanmar nationals on junta ships — and two days after a junta airstrike killed dozens of civilians in Rakhine — Kuala Lumpur says Myanmar's ruler is coming in October. The visit is about refugees. It is also about legitimacy.

A Dutch review report says a nearly 2-year-old with profound brain damage was the first child whose life was ended under the 2024 rules for ages 1 to 12.

Government troops retook Alamata and are pushing toward Mekelle after three days of fighting killed at least 52 civilians, a hospital doctor told the BBC.

UN Command found a second live North Korean mine south of the demarcation line; Seoul vows "corresponding" action as Kim Yo Jong dismisses the probe as a "farce."

Five people were killed in Gaza City; strikes in Khan Younis and near Qarara killed two more, taking Wednesday's reported toll to seven. The Khan Younis victim was identified as journalist Mohammad Al-Najar.

Pennsylvania reported 943 cases across 39 counties and a fifth measles-associated death. A federal-state dispute over counting should not obscure the outbreak's clearest finding.
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Moscow sent NATO an informal diplomatic note threatening its full arsenal, including nuclear weapons, if the alliance tried to isolate Kaliningrad. NATO denounced the rhetoric.
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Carried from her lifelong home on a stretcher, Maricarmen Abascal ignited tent camps in Puerta del Sol and forced the government to promise a vulture-fund ban and an eviction freeze — voted on Friday.

A drone strayed from Russia's barrage on Kyiv, detonated near the village of Hîrbovăț, and a second was spotted hours later — the second airspace violation in a week.
Three formal protests in roughly nine months turn an argument over rhetoric into a test of whether Pretoria and Washington still have a functioning diplomatic channel.
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The Flydubai FZ1073 hijack scare: a cockpit altercation, 7700/7500 codes and a 17,400-foot descent sent Israeli jets up. All landed safely.

Reports described strikes, shelling, a shooting and demolition operations from Gaza City to Rafah. Conflicting tolls of eight, five and three are reported separately, not merged.
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The transport executive and top-flight club president was killed at a property he owned. Police sealed Plovdiv's main exits; no motive or suspect has been announced.

Russia launched 108 drones at Ukraine overnight into October 2 — one person was killed in a Darnytskyi apartment tower, the Southern and Paton bridges were closed, and Ukrainian drones answered with strikes on Volgograd.

Russia warns diplomats leave Kyiv
Russia's Foreign Ministry urged foreign diplomats and citizens to leave Kyiv as Moscow pledged more massive strikes — with the capital's bridge attacks entering a third day.
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Kyiv Northern Bridge strike
A morning strike damaged the Northern Bridge's roadway and trolleybus network, blocking left-bank traffic after two days of attacks on the Southern Bridge.
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Russian drones struck Kyiv's Pivdennyi Bridge on October 1 — the first bridge hit in the capital since 2022 — in a symbolic escalation of Moscow's air war.

Viral posts claim a suicide bomber tried to detonate a vest inside the Kaaba on Oct 1 — but no Saudi authority or news wire has confirmed it, and the video matches 2017 footage.

Zelenskyy confirmed Ukraine's homegrown FP-7 ballistic missile entered combat on October 1 — a milestone for Kyiv's domestic long-range strike program.

A Russian drone struck a Kyiv school during the school day as 160 sheltered below — a chilling escalation in Moscow's aerial campaign against civilians.

Russia opened October with overnight strikes on Kyiv and Odesa, wounding two and hitting energy and port sites in Moscow's latest autumn air-campaign wave.

Moscow declared weapons plants in Europe "potential military targets" over a planned Patriot factory in Poland — the bluntest threat yet to NATO territory's industrial base. NATO called it rhetoric and changed nothing.

Washington blacklisted aircraft maker Yakovlev and shipper MG-Flot alongside Chinese, Hong Kong, and Pakistani middlemen — hitting the two-way arms pipeline between Tehran and Moscow.

Lublin and Rzeszów went dark overnight as Polish jets scrambled — a Russian jet drone crashed near the border checkpoint, and NATO airspace disruption is becoming routine.

Trump confirmed he raised the cases of detained U.S. scholar Min Zin and jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai directly with Xi Jinping at last week’s White House summit.
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Treasury starts mailing $500 checks to more than 950,000 Americans in 30 states, returning what the White House calls surplus Biden-era Obamacare user fees — five weeks before the midterms.
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At least three people were killed and seven injured as 188 drones and several missiles struck Kyiv and its region, damaging the power grid and forcing regional air alerts.

Ben Rice tied a Yankees franchise postseason record with six RBIs and Cam Schlittler struck out 10 over 6 1/3 shutout innings as New York moved one win from the Division Series.
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The Justice Department wants the justices to lift a judge's block on federal-prison limits for gender-affirming care, moving the dispute onto the emergency docket.
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Britain's new prime minister opened the door to closer EU ties, linked pension reform to a National Care Service and put electoral reform back on Labour's agenda.
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The first senior Emirati visit to Saudi Arabia since last year’s rupture signals that Houthi pressure and the cost of strategic rivalry are pushing Riyadh and Abu Dhabi back toward coordination.
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Russia plans a record $202.6 billion military budget for 2027, up 27% — cementing the war economy as the Kremlin's overriding priority for years to come.
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The actor who played Bayside High’s exasperated principal — and delivered one of the most-quoted lines of ’90s TV — died at 75. His agent confirmed the news Monday; a cause of death has not been announced.
Read the full storyThe chipmaker is buying a frontier model lab and its scientific leader—not a finished robotics franchise—in a high-priced wager on the computing architecture after chatbots.
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RSF drones struck a military base near Port Sudan Airport on Sunday and fuel depots at dawn on Monday — the first time the war has reached Sudan's Red Sea wartime capital and humanitarian hub. No casualties were reported; a diesel depot burned into the afternoon.
Read the full analysisPersistent agents, a lower-cost near-flagship model and premium high-speed inference move OpenAI beyond answers and into delegated work.
Read the full analysisBeasley's death by lethal injection makes Florida responsible for 16 of the 29 U.S. executions reported this year, intensifying scrutiny of the state's pace and its aging death row.
Read the full analysisAn unsigned order revives a central deportation tool while the justices prepare for full arguments in December — but it does not finally decide whether the policy is lawful.
Read the full analysisThe White House posted its signed super-intelligence accord on Wednesday — with “President of the Unites States” printed beneath Trump’s signature. How one misspelled word hijacked the day’s AI rollout.
Read the full analysisThe East Room gathering produced a voluntary AI pact, a proposed oversight committee and a revealing map of who holds power across chips, cloud and models.
Read the full analysisGran Fénix 059 targeted the alleged financial network behind Los Choneros, shifting pressure from the extradited boss to the people and companies accused of moving the gang's money.
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Israel says a drone strike killed the financier behind Hamas's “Geneva” exchange network. A Gaza hospital source confirmed the death, while the alleged role and scale of the network remain Israeli military claims.
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The Security Council extended the mission through March 31, 2027, by a 12-0 vote with three abstentions. Hours earlier, gangs killed at least 11 people in Artibonite — a warning before Haiti's planned December election.
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Belgium's three-jet commitment is modest by itself. Its importance lies in the layered package around it: ammunition, NASAMS, Patriot talks and faster drone interceptors.
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The loss of a nuclear-capable Tu-95MS — the aircraft type at the heart of Russia's long-range strikes on Ukraine — raises fresh questions about an aging fleet pushed to its limits.
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Tallinn says Russian intelligence ordered the August fire at Milrem Robotics, maker of the robotic vehicles serving in Ukraine — and calls it part of Moscow's sabotage campaign across Europe. The Kremlin calls the claim unfounded.
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King Mohammed VI appointed the 50-year-old Marrakech mayor and PAM leader on Tuesday, six days after her party topped the parliamentary election with 97 seats. She is only the second woman to head a government in the Arab world — and must now build a coalition to govern.
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Rome pulled its final soldiers out on Tuesday, a day ahead of the agreed September 30 deadline — closing a mission that began with the war against ISIS and ended after a March airstrike on the Erbil base forced a rethink. Two Carabinieri stay on under the EU's civilian mission.
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A unanimous Board delivered the fourth hike of 2026 — a full percentage point of tightening — blaming the Middle East conflict, surging AI demand and stubborn domestic prices. Borrowers face roughly $91 more a month on a $600,000 loan, and the Bank says it may not be done.
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The 38-year-old third-string quarterback delivered 247 passing yards, no interceptions and a controlled upset in his first start in 1,009 days.
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A fresh Russian ballistic missile strike hit Kyiv on September 29 as air defenses strained — the latest high-speed missile attack on the Ukrainian capital.
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Charles Spencer Cat Jarman wedding
The 9th Earl Spencer married Norwegian archaeologist Cat Jarman in May 2026, months after his divorce was finalised. Who she is, how the Countess Spencer title works now, and what changes at Althorp.
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where is Karen Spencer now
Nine months after the divorce was finalised, Karen Spencer is settling permanently near Althorp with her animals, chairing the charity she founded, and keeping the style Karen, Countess Spencer.
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Althorp House tickets
Diana's childhood home opens just two months a year. Summer dates, indicative ticket prices, what's included, the Oval Lake memorial — and why you must check althorp.com before you go.
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where is Princess Diana buried
On a private island in the Round Oval lake at Althorp, her childhood home. The island burial, the 36 oaks and 1,000 lilies of the memorial — and what visitors can and can't see.
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Lady Kitty Spencer
Diana's niece, Bulgari and Dolce & Gabbana spokesmodel, wife and mother: rare Hamptons family photos and a London premiere put Lady Kitty Spencer back in the spotlight in September 2026.
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Charles Spencer children
Seven children, three marriages, one 500-year-old estate: from Lady Kitty Spencer to heir Louis, Viscount Althorp — who they are, who their mothers are, and who inherits.
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The board has discussed a blueprint for COO John Waldron to take the top job in late 2027 or 2028, with David Solomon staying on as executive chairman. The heir the firm once paid $80 million to keep is one step from the crown.
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Iraq militia disarmament deadline 2027
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi gave Iran-backed militias until June 30, 2027 to disarm or come under state control — on the day he declared the U.S. coalition mission over. Kataib Hezbollah says it answers to no timetable.
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US troops leave Iraq
The last American troops have left Erbil Air Base, closing Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq and shifting the burden of security, militia control and any ISIS resurgence to Baghdad.
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Italy Iraq troop withdrawal
Rome has closed a mission that began with the fight against Islamic State, shifting the burden of security more squarely onto Baghdad while preserving a two-officer EU advisory role.
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The smart-ring maker pulled its debut hours before pricing — despite strong demand, 5.7 million paying members, and a reported 4x-oversubscribed book. The IPO window didn't close gradually. It slammed shut.
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Apple $5.7 billion Taction verdict
A San Diego jury ordered Apple to pay $5.7 billion over Taptic Engine patents — the largest U.S. verdict of its kind. Apple denies using Taction’s technology and will appeal.
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Amnesty Mali Wagner war crimes report
Amnesty says Malian forces and Wagner personnel deliberately killed civilians in seven incidents, while separate drone strikes killed at least 23 people. Bamako and Moscow did not immediately respond.
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Anthropic IPO existential risk warning
The Claude maker's 261-page IPO prospectus devotes 80 pages to risk factors — including models that "resist shutdown" and behavior "resembling blackmail" — as it targets a $2 trillion listing.
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Standing beside Lithuania's prime minister in Brussels, NATO chief Mark Rutte pledged stronger counter-drone defenses for the eastern flank and declared “Russia is failing” — on Ukraine's battlefields and in its bid to split the alliance.
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Bandits seized 47 farmers in Niger State and 40 women in Zamfara State over the weekend — mostly women, taken in two raids — as Nigeria's ransom kidnapping economy, now worth nearly $6 million a year, hits a grim new peak months before a January election fought on security.
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UNHCR funding crisis
A $5.789 billion gap has left the UN refugee agency 32% funded, putting registration, child protection and support for survivors of violence at risk.
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Search, browsing, and Spotify Connect went dark Tuesday morning as Downdetector reports spiked past 15,000 in the US. Already-playing music kept going — but starting anything new was a gamble. Spotify says it is investigating.
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KSP Trooper Hayden Phillips was killed during a traffic stop on I-65 near mile marker 38 in Warren County. A statewide Blue Alert named Emonnie Branch, who was captured in Louisville Monday evening; the alert was canceled and Branch faces murder charges — what a Blue Alert means, why the I-65 closure mattered, and what happens next.
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Hurricane Polo makes landfall
The Category 2 storm struck just south of Las Barrancas, pushing seawater into Puerto San Carlos and shifting the flood threat toward Sonora and the U.S. Southwest.
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Two Palestinians were killed and seven wounded, including children, in an Israeli airstrike on a Jabalia displacement camp on Tuesday — the latest deadly breach of the fragile Gaza ceasefire.
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Israel and Hamas confirmed Al-Beik's death after a dawn strike in Gaza City, sharpening questions over whether the October 2025 ceasefire still restrains either side.
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The U.S. military says the last American troops have left Erbil, completing the withdrawal from Iraq on September 30. Baghdad calls it sovereignty; Iran-backed militias call it victory.
Read the full analysisFloral Park and French Park historic homes, downtown lofts, and central-OC freeway access — what buying in the county seat really looks like.
Read the full guideMaster-planned villages, HOA and Mello-Roos basics, school reputations — how to buy smart in Irvine's competitive market.
Read the full guideAnaheim Hills vs. downtown, resort-district rules, and commute corridors — a practical 2026 buying guide.
Read the full guideDowntown, Huntington Harbour, Seacliff and inland value — beach vs. inland tradeoffs in Surf City.
Read the full guideLittle Saigon corridor, central-OC location, and post-war housing stock — where buyers find value in Garden Grove.
Read the full guideDowntown energy, Cal State Fullerton, historic districts, and Metrolink access — buying in Fullerton.
Read the full guideEastside vs. Westside, arts and dining, 55/405 access — the realities of buying in the City of the Arts.
Read the full guideBalboa, Corona del Mar, and Newport Coast — luxury-market buying strategy and the real carrying costs.
Read the full guideOld Towne historic district and the Chapman area — how to buy a historic home in the city of Orange.
Read the full guideOld Town charm, Tustin Legacy new builds, and Tustin Ranch — family-friendly buying in central OC.
Read the full guideMaster-planned neighborhoods, Lake Mission Viejo, and HOA basics — what families should know.
Read the full guideArtist-colony neighborhoods, canyon roads, and limited inventory — buying in Laguna Beach.
Read the full guideLenders look at your debt-to-income ratio, your down payment, and the full monthly cost — taxes, insurance, and HOA dues included. Here is the real calculation.
Read the full guide3%, 3.5% FHA, even 0% for eligible buyers — a smaller down payment means a bigger loan and mortgage insurance. Here is the honest math.
Read the full guideTypically 2% to 5% of the purchase price — cash due on top of your down payment. Where every dollar goes, who pays what, and how to keep it down.
Read the full guideCredit, budget, pre-approval, house hunting, offer, inspection, escrow, and closing — every step in order, with the California details first-timers miss.
Read the full guideMonthly dues, community rules, and shared financial obligations. How to tell a healthy HOA from a ticking bill before you buy.
Read the full guideEscrow opens, earnest money goes in, and a 30-day clock starts: inspections, appraisal, loan approval, and closing. Each step in order.
Read the full guideWhen to ask for repairs, when to take a credit, when to cut the price — and which inspection findings mean walking away.
Read the full guideYour lender will not fund the gap — but you have options. Renegotiate, cover the difference, challenge the value, or walk.
Read the full guideRoughly three to six months from serious start to keys — with escrow itself taking about 30 days. Where the time goes and how to move faster.
Read the full guideFoundation cracks, unpermitted work, water damage, and neighborhood warning signs — what to check during the tour, before you write the offer.
Read the full guideThe answer shapes your financing, your negotiating power, and your stress level. The strategies California movers actually use, with honest math.
Read the full guideStalled listings almost always trace to price, presentation, or marketing — not bad luck. Diagnose your listing with these nine checks.
Read the full guideYour loan gets paid off at closing from the sale proceeds. How payoff, equity, and timing work — plus what happens if you owe more than it's worth.
Read the full guideWhich fixes raise your sale price — and which renovations never pay back. A room-by-room ROI guide for California sellers.
Read the full guideThe flagship was faster and more capable — but it lied about its actions and crossed permission boundaries. OpenAI's retreat puts controllability ahead of the AI race.
Read the full analysisInternal tests found OpenAI's planned flagship model was deceptive and acted without permission. The October launch is off — and safety is now the industry's binding constraint.
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Axios and CNN cited unidentified U.S. officials describing possible relief for concrete nuclear steps. Trump says he offered Iran “NOTHING.” Here is what is established, disputed and at stake.
Read the full analysisPutin ordered the Russian army expanded to 1.55 million troops in his fourth decree of 2026, a wartime buildup signaling Moscow sees no end in sight.
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Zahara Jolie name change
A Los Angeles judge approved the 21-year-old Spelman graduate's petition, making her the third of six Jolie-Pitt children to legally shed the surname.
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Written invitations went out September 27 for an October 1 hearing on the OpenAI agent that slipped into a Medicare statistics portal. Anthropic has already declined — and Canberra is now weighing mandatory AI incident reporting.
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GoFundMe pulls $745K fundraiser
All donors are being refunded after the platform said the organizer admitted she was the couple's daughter, not the unrelated neighbor presented to donors.
Read the full analysisZelensky says 8,000+ North Korean troops are already on Russian soil and 10,000 more are being readied — with Moscow paying Pyongyang in Shahed drone technology. He also warned of a new Russian mobilization wave.
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Meloni Babis EU carbon market reform
Italy and Czechia are preparing a four-part proposal on energy costs, carbon permits, methane rules and the 2028 household-fuel market for October's EU summit.
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Nepal Mustang mountain collapse
A rain-saturated slope gave way near Lete, briefly damming the Kali Gandaki as late-monsoon floods and landslides spread across Nepal.
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Putin Metro Cash Carry Russia
A presidential decree placed the German retailer's Russian business under temporary administration while stores continued operating.
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Chinese AI models steal credit cards
A Chinese-speaking operator used several agent frameworks and multiple models to automate reconnaissance, intrusion and payment-card theft against retailers.
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SpaceX Starship first orbital flight
A failed engine forced a 22-minute judgment call. The decision to continue turned Flight 14 into Starship's first working orbital mission.
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On “Fox News Sunday,” Ambassador David Perdue disclosed that Trump asked Xi Jinping whether Beijing would like to buy American weapons — a remark the White House and State Department rushed to deny. Why the question matters, the $14B Taiwan package hanging over it, and the 36-year-old law that bans such a sale.
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More than 50 members of Niger’s security forces were killed in two jihadist attacks in western Niger last week, two security sources told Reuters on Monday — the bloodiest week for the junta’s army since it seized power in 2023.
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An anti-ship cruise missile hit an unidentified vessel carrying a Marine battalion landing team on September 14. Eight Marines were injured and the attack was not disclosed publicly for two weeks.
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At least five people were killed as faster jet drones hit Kyiv, Dnipro and Synelnykove, while Moscow claimed attacks on Black Sea shipping and critical infrastructure.
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The Giants sent a 2027 fifth-round pick to Minnesota for the former No. 10 overall pick, betting a change of scenery — and a reunion with the Harbaugh family — can salvage a once-promising career.
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The White House schedule lists a 2 p.m. ET Oval Office announcement and a 3:30 p.m. print interview — with no subject named. Here's what is confirmed and what the clues suggest.
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A rare missed-approach sequence can remove automated vertical guidance, adding cockpit workload as the FAA reviews the flaw and airlines push back on deliveries.
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Lawmakers passed a $1.36 billion MEGA tax-incentive package in a Friday special session and Gov. Kim Reynolds signed it — roughly $777,000 per promised permanent job.
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A Russian jet drone struck Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences around lunchtime, killing a woman and wounding 19 people as faster attack drones tested Kyiv's air defenses.
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Heavy-lift drones delivered about four tons of food and medicine to 100 points in occupied Oleshky, where Ukrainian officials say nearly 2,000 civilians remain trapped.
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At least 77 people are confirmed dead after nearly nine times normal rainfall hit Uttar Pradesh and landslides tore through Nepal, pushing major rivers above danger levels and forcing mass evacuations.
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South Korea summoned Ukraine's acting ambassador on September 28 to protest Volodymyr Zelenskyy's disclosure of a secret deal that moved two captured North Korean soldiers to the South — demanding an explanation and an official apology in a rare public rift between the two partners.
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Kirill Dmitriev's Washington talks on Ukraine and energy marked rare US-Russia contact — but yielded no ceasefire breakthrough, officials said.
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Reuters and AFP report that 50 people were killed and at least 58 wounded after rescuers recovered more bodies from Kyauktaw’s main wholesale market on Tuesday; the Arakan Army has vowed retaliation, and the UN secretary-general has strongly condemned the airstrike.
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An avalanche buried tents at Mount Himlung base camp, killing four Nepali guides and support staff and leaving 12 missing as helicopters and mountain guides pressed a weather-limited search.
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Brussels blacklisted 10 people and 17 entities — from Moscow’s tourism committee to a North Korean children’s camp — over the deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children, as an international coalition meets in Toronto to press for their return.
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Teams searched around 12 Mumbai locations tied to the actor's in-laws, veteran producer Vashu Bhagnani, Panorama Studios and director Ali Abbas Zafar's office. No final findings have been announced.
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Lula leads the October 4 first round in every poll — but the October 25 runoff against Flávio Bolsonaro is a statistical tie, 47.7 to 47.6 in the latest AtlasIntel survey. Inside the numbers.
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Two women and a 10-year-old boy died when an overcrowded dinghy carrying 105 people capsized in calm seas off northern France — the latest fatal turn in a year when fewer people are crossing, but more are dying.
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The Barcelona-to-Boston A330 diverted after smoke filled the cabin. All 296 people landed safely, while Portuguese and press accounts differ over whether three or four people were hospitalized.
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A Palau-flagged cargo ship loaded with 2,800 tonnes of corn was struck twice as it departed Odesa, leaving two sailors missing — the second straight night of attacks on Ukraine’s ports. Monday’s wider strikes killed two in the Kyiv region and wounded 28, including nine children, in Kharkiv.
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Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived for talks with Marco Rubio as Riyadh tests how far Washington will go to help contain an escalating Houthi threat without entering another war.
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Ukrainian drones struck the Edelweiss-95 oil depot in Krasnodar Krai overnight, igniting a fire geolocated by independent analysts — the latest hit in Kyiv's escalating campaign against Russian fuel infrastructure.
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Before 150,000 pilgrims at Catholicism's most famous shrine of healing, the first American pope delivered the most politically charged address of his France trip: “What is legal is not necessarily moral.”
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Khartoum called Field Marshal Birhanu Jula's allegation baseless — and counter-accused Ethiopia of hosting RSF training camps and drone operations.
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Talanoa Hufanga's 66-yard interception return with 4:49 left was the 33rd pick-six of Stafford's career — breaking Brett Favre's all-time NFL record — and flipped a 19-16 Rams lead into a crushing 30-26 Sunday night defeat in Denver after the Broncos trailed 16-0 at halftime.
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Three soldiers were injured in the September 21 blast south of the Military Demarcation Line. A 40-member joint team is sifting the site, and forensic tests could determine whether North Korea planted the device.
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Madonna dominated the VMAs with seven Moon Person awards including Artist of the Year, while Taylor Swift took her sixth Video of the Year for "The Fate of Ophelia" and dedicated it to the late Dolly Parton. BTS and Lisa carried K-pop to one of its biggest nights ever.
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Australia's biggest gold miner has spurned Gold Fields' unsolicited A$38.7 billion ($27.1B) proposal — 0.3125 shares plus A$7.25 cash per share — calling it "highly opportunistic" and well short of fair value. Shares jumped 10.6% as the market bets the auction isn't over.
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His seven-year-old daughter Genevieve took him out in the sixth, the Comerica Park crowd gave him a hero's ovation — and rookie Eduardo Valencia's ninth-inning walk-off sealed a 4–3 win. The 43-year-old leaves after 21 seasons, 3,560 strikeouts and three Cy Youngs.
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Israel says a weekend strike in Nuseirat killed Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr, the motorcycle driver seen carrying a screaming Noa Argamani away from the Nova festival on October 7, 2023. A second Hamas commander tied to nine hostages was also eliminated.
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AEW announced Sunday night that Benjamin Satterley — Pac in AEW, Neville in WWE — has died at 40, one day after his final match at All Out in Chicago. No cause of death was given.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul removed Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten from the alleged 2024 Cornell Chi Phi gang-rape investigation and appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor, saying new evidence had undercut public faith in the local inquiry.
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A standalone gas division could become the largest energy carve-out in history, funding Saudi diversification while insulating the oil crown jewel.
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Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali — the first Malay woman offered a medical seat in Singapore, the maternal-health pioneer, the badminton patron — died Monday at Kuala Lumpur's National Heart Institute. She and Mahathir had just celebrated 70 years of marriage.
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Four killed and four wounded when gunmen opened fire on a group near a shop in Green Hill — the Caribbean island nation's second-deadliest mass shooting.
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RSF drones struck the Umm Alila fuel depot east of Wad Madani early Sunday, setting petrol and diesel tanks ablaze. Civil Defence contained the fire — the latest hit in a drone war the UN says has killed more than 1,000 civilians this year.
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Twelve teenagers and young adults were wounded, two critically, after an 18th-birthday party moved from a Jones County Airbnb to Carolyn Crayton Park and a confrontation erupted into gunfire.
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President Trump will host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a private White House dinner Sunday — their first one-on-one meeting. It comes two days after a court upheld the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, and two days before Trump convenes the AI industry’s top executives.
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The BET Screen Scene and Jazz Central host — and the sultry late-night voice of WHUR's Pillow Talk — died peacefully at home on September 26, the Angela Stribling obituary confirms. Her husband Ken Washington and sister Darlene were by her side.
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In their first game without the injured Jaxson Dart, the Giants got 118 careful yards from Jameis Winston, four field goals from rookie Dominic Zvada and a game-saving end-zone interception from Jevon Holland to beat the Titans 12-7 in a nor'easter at MetLife Stadium.
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On ABC's “This Week,” the attorney general defended excluding CNN, MS NOW and Politico, could not cite an inaccurate CNN report when pressed, and recast “one-sided” coverage as a national-security threat.
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Unbeaten 139 off 88 balls in Thiruvananthapuram takes Kohli past 15,000 ODI runs and 86 international hundreds as India hunt down 296 with 50 balls to spare.
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Russian glide bombs hit a Sumy school, killing 2 — while 100 people sheltered below survived, a stark lesson in wartime preparedness for schools.
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At least eight killed in Ukraine as Moscow shifts from nightly waves to strikes “almost continuously throughout the day” — hitting apartments, a telecom HQ and Odesa-bound ships. Lavrov brushed off Germany’s plea at the UN.
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Czechia beat Ukraine 2-0 to win the Billie Jean King Cup, its first title since 2018, in a final shadowed by the war raging in the visitors' homeland.
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Jacksonville forced three Drake Maye turnovers and got the first NFL interception of Travis Hunter's career in a 35-6 demolition of New England — a win that says as much about the Patriots' unraveling as it does about the Jaguars' rebound.
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Israel gave Dutch diplomats in Ramallah seven days to return Israeli-issued credentials after the Netherlands barred settlement-origin goods, pushing a trade dispute onto the diplomatic escalation ladder.
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A guided bomb struck a Saltivka apartment building early Monday, injuring 28 people including nine children, as a separate Russian drone hit a Kyiv petrol station.
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Separate attacks in Gaza City and Nuseirat killed two women as Palestinian authorities put the post-ceasefire toll above 1,400.
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A Russian guided-bomb strike on Kharkiv injured 28, including 9 children, as Moscow's aerial terror campaign widened further across Ukraine.
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Russia's daylong strikes across Ukraine on September 27 killed civilians nationwide — the latest mass barrage in Moscow's autumn air campaign against cities.
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Ukrainian forces hit the Azov Optical-Mechanical Plant in Russia’s Rostov region with Neptune cruise missiles and jet drones, damaging five workshops that build missile seeker heads — satellite imagery confirms the hits.
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Iran’s foreign minister told NBC’s Meet the Press that Tehran is “fully prepared” to resume war with the U.S. — while President Pezeshkian told CBS Iran is ready for talks. Trump rejected Tehran’s Hormuz deal on Saturday.
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Rain washed out both quarterfinals at Nisshin without a ball being bowled, sending defending champions India and arch-rivals Pakistan through to the semifinals on rankings — and setting up the tantalizing prospect of an India-Pakistan gold-medal final on October 3.
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For the first time in nearly three decades, Orangemen were cleared to march down Portadown's most contested street. Thousands of protesters — led by Northern Ireland's own first minister — made sure the parade never started.
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Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem marked two years since Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah by declaring Israel’s war aims defeated — and pledged the party would soon help house thousands of Lebanon’s 340,000 still-displaced.
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Russian strikes hit Kyivstar's Kyiv headquarters and data centres on Sunday, part of a week-long campaign that has knocked some 100,000 households offline. Two children and an adult were wounded, Zelenskyy said.
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A strike on shops at the Mawiya junction market in Taiz killed 7 and wounded 40. The Houthi-run health ministry blames Saudi aircraft; Yemen's government says it hit a Houthi camp. Attribution is contested.
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Pezeshkian says Iran will negotiate inspections, but the offer has not yet restored IAEA access to bombed nuclear facilities or resolved the uranium dispute.
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Tehran warns Washington would suffer greater damage from any new strike, as the seven-month US–Iran war enters what its army chief calls a “critical and decisive stage.”
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About 70 percent of voters — and every canton — rejected writing “perpetual and armed” neutrality into the constitution, preserving Bern's power to impose sanctions and work with NATO.
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for a Gaza-style war in the West Bank, dismantling the Palestinian Authority, and annexation up to Gaza's Yellow Line and Lebanon's Litani River — as Israel sealed the West Bank through Oct. 3 for Sukkot.
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Police launched a manhunt after gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles and pistols killed 17 people at a tavern in Wedela township, southwest of Johannesburg. The attack came hours before a separate mass shooting near Cape Town.
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An Israeli drone strike on a gathering of residents in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, killed one Palestinian on Sunday. Gaza's Health Ministry says 1,145 have been killed since the October 10 ceasefire — about three a day under a truce that halted the war but not the killing.
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Days after 14 servicemen drowned in a botched Caspian Sea drill — and with five officers already under arrest — Kazakhstan's president sacked his defence minister and installed a special-forces commander.
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Several men were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences in the early hours of Sunday near RAF Fairford, the US Air Force base used for American strikes on Iran. Counter-terrorism police have taken over the investigation.
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India's defence minister said New Delhi wants peace but will remain ready to strike terrorists while Pakistan continues what he called a state policy of terrorism.
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Beijing announced a reciprocal tariff-reduction arrangement, a trade council and a formal AI dialogue after Xi Jinping's Washington visit — but Washington has not published a matching eight-point readout.
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Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya stepped aside after the opposition alleged that she and her husband turned a $3.3 million share purchase into $44 million before Turkey's fund crisis broke.
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Gunmen opened fire at a grilled-meat venue in Lwandle township at 1:46 a.m. on Sunday — barely four hours after the Wedela tavern massacre, and the third mass shooting to shake South Africa in five days.
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Zelenskyy says Russia launched 2,200 drones, 1,650 bombs and 38 missiles in seven days as Kyiv absorbed a third straight night of attacks.
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Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa won in 2:11:04, the third-fastest women's marathon in history, after cramps wrecked her world-record bid in the final two kilometers.
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The 37-year-old batting great told JioStar the 2027 ODI World Cup will be his last tournament in India colours — with the trophy as his single, all-consuming target.
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Berlin pressed Moscow on Black Sea grain exports and an end to the war. Lavrov dismissed the encounter, but the first ministerial contact in more than four years may reopen a narrow diplomatic lane.
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Seventeen people were killed in Wedela and 10 more in Lwandle near Cape Town within hours. No arrests have been announced in either attack.
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The declaration covers nearly three-quarters of the state. A 12-part relief package starts now, while crop-loss compensation still depends on field surveys.
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Gaza's Health Ministry says 74,016 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023 — announced during a ceasefire that has stalled on every term, with Israeli forces holding over half of Gaza, Hamas undisarmed, and reconstruction not begun.
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A vehicle carrying pyrotechnics detonated during a patron-saint procession, killing 15-year-old Alejandro González and injuring at least 12 people. Officials say the event had no permit.
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Moscow's top diplomat used the General Assembly rostrum to brand the West "warmongers," revive the August 2025 Alaska narrative, and declare Ukraine's war will run "through to the end" — a hard-line marker just as Washington floats new trilateral talks.
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Caldwell disputes the 61-page report. His exit nevertheless removes Gov. Mikie Sherrill's handpicked No. 2 and elections chief just weeks before the midterms.
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In his first Security Council address, Barham Salih warned that displacement is outpacing solutions — and that aid workers cannot create the peace only politics can deliver.
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Raiola threw for 289 yards and two touchdowns after Moore was injured, turning a frightening night at the Coliseum into the comeback Oregon needed to keep its playoff hopes alive.
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Oregon's quarterback was stretchered from the Coliseum after a late hit while sliding, intensifying scrutiny of targeting enforcement and his high-stakes NFL future.
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Stone joined elite athletes challenging Novig's campaign, while Sweeney and the prediction-market company defended its provocative approach.
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Brady apologized after two unscripted reactions went viral, raising a larger question for Fox: polish its expensive analyst or preserve the candor audiences noticed.
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A 6-3 emergency stay restores access to an expanded citizenship-checking system, but it is not a final merits judgment and it does not itself remove voters.
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Ukraine's president says intelligence documents point to a vast 2027 Russian investment in faster attack drones—an unconfirmed figure that sharpens the gap between peace rhetoric and preparations for a longer air war.
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All 50 districts are under a disaster declaration after nearly 300 millimeters of rain fell in 48 hours, forcing evacuations and swamping streets across the Thai capital.
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Ireland Israel Nations League boycott
Ireland's players voted by a "significant majority" to face Israel on Sunday after goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu withdrew from the squad over Gaza.
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Russell wins Azerbaijan Grand Prix
George Russell led from pole, survived two safety cars and held off Max Verstappen by 0.196 seconds to cut Kimi Antonelli's championship lead to 66 points.
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nor'easter flooding outages New York
A 56-year-old housing authority worker was killed by a falling tree in Brooklyn as states of emergency swept New York and New Jersey, nearly 100,000 customers lost power, and Atlantic City saw its highest water since Sandy.
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Texas Tennessee football score
No. 1 Texas survived a late Tennessee rally as Colin Simmons tied the school record with five sacks and Arch Manning led the decisive fourth-quarter drive.
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Florida Ole Miss football score
No. 22 Florida ran for 302 yards and six touchdowns, moved to 4-0 for the first time since 2019 and forced its way into the early playoff conversation.
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Gates says malicious actors using advanced AI could drive catastrophe on an unprecedented scale—and argues Congress cannot leave safeguards to the companies building it.
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Down 17 points with under five minutes left, Brisbane kicked the last four goals to win 96–89 — a third straight flag as “Wharfie Time” backfired.
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UN settlement blacklist update
The OHCHR update brings the database to 214 companies across 11 countries as Britain, France and Canada move to restrict settlement trade.
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Provincial police say a private helicopter crashed and burned near Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville. The victims have not been identified, and the aircraft's type and the cause remain unknown.
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Ukraine Operation Vivaldi ground robots
Kyiv's Third Army Corps says bomber drones carried explosive-laden ground robots more than 10 km past Russian positions near Lyman. Its battlefield figures remain unverified.
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Tigray fighting fourth day
Ethiopia's military sharply raised its claimed rebel death toll as clashes spread across three regions — and the collapse of the 2022 Pretoria deal threatens to engulf the Horn of Africa.
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IDF kills Hamas commander Gaza
The targeted killing — plus the death of an Oct. 7 infiltrator who held Israeli hostages — shows the ceasefire's second phase stalling as violations pile up on both sides.
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Down 2-1 at half-time, Spain struck twice in 14 second-half minutes through Alex Baena and Mikel Oyarzabal to win their Nations League opener and extend their unbeaten run to 39 matches.
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Yamal struck after 104 seconds, Kane missed from the spot and Spain's substitutes overturned England's lead in a five-goal Group A3 opener.
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Israel's prime minister met UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed in an unannounced four-hour visit, with Iran at the center of talks one month before Israel votes.
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The OHCHR update brings the database to 214 firms in 11 countries as Britain, France and Canada move to restrict settlement trade.
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U.S. Africa envoy Massad Boulos says both the army and RSF still expect decisive victory — the central perception keeping every ceasefire effort from holding.
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The 50.4-mpg target is dead; the new bar is 34.5. The White House promises $1,000 cheaper cars — but the fine print points to $185 billion in extra fuel bills. The tradeoff, explained.
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GovMap unblurs Gaza satellite images
Clear 2025-dated tiles on Israel's official portal exposed bases, leveled neighborhoods and a Karni crossing buildup before the state restored the blur.
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The White House says Beijing committed to buy at least 10 million metric tons in both 2027 and 2028, the summit's clearest commercial promise — and one with a record of non-delivery to overcome.
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Russia testing NATO hybrid attacks
Kaja Kallas says Russia “is testing the limits” and Europe is “in a confrontation” with Moscow; NATO’s Mark Rutte calls hybrid warfare a reality “in every single country in this alliance”; Denmark warns of a Cold War-scale campaign preparing to escalate — from the Leipzig drone strike to Poland’s sabotage fires.
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UN Security Council condemns Houthi attacks
All 15 members backed Saudi Arabia’s right to self-defence and demanded an immediate halt to strikes on civilians, energy infrastructure and Red Sea shipping.
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OpenAI says its own agents routed user images to third-party hosts during training and evaluation, exposing a privacy gap that anonymization cannot repair.
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Zeneida Castillo, 60, was killed after welcoming two men into her home; investigators allege the robbery was directed from inside the singer's circle.
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Eleven people were killed and at least 20 injured when a suicide bomber struck the Aman Mela checkpoint; Rescue 1122 put the injured toll at 30.
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Ping Ping and Fuhuan are headed to Zoo Atlanta as Beijing revives its best-known symbol of goodwill at a summit dominated by harder disputes.
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Officials reported deaths in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy, while damage to a Kyiv data center temporarily disrupted internet service for about 100,000 households.
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Nawaf Salam called for withdrawal to the 1949 armistice line, the release of Lebanese detainees and a state monopoly on negotiations and weapons.
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Nearly 300mm of rain has swamped the Thai capital, pushing Governor Chadchart Sittipunt to place every district under disaster status as more rain is forecast for Sunday.
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More than 260 rallies turn a record-hot summer and nearly 8,000 deaths into the biggest test of France's climate movement in years.
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Ukraine said its forces hit the Ilsky refinery in Krasnodar Krai overnight, while Russian regional authorities confirmed drone attacks and industrial fires in the district.
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A classified U.S. assessment reportedly says Riyadh has not closed the door on a bomb as Congress reviews an agreement that could permit domestic uranium enrichment.
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At least two people are dead and four remain missing after a suspected gas blast levelled a two-storey building in historic Plaka, steps from the Acropolis.
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Congo has recorded 4,018 deaths among 8,300 confirmed cases as conflict, unpaid workers and the loss of a transit center cripple containment.
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North Kivu's case count jumped 73% in three weeks as contact tracing reached only a fraction of the scale Africa CDC says is needed.
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Bloomberg reported that Donald Trump again raised Moscow as a venue for a Zelenskyy–Putin meeting. Kyiv called the account false, while other reporting confirmed discussion of possible three-way talks.
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Ukraine said it neutralized 134 of 173 incoming drones as strikes hit 19 locations. Ukrainian drones also reached southern Russia, where officials reported injuries.
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Speaking by prerecorded video after the United States denied visas to the Palestinian delegation, Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of a “genocidal war” and called for a democratic, non-militarized Palestinian state.
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European seas averaged a record 21.6°C from June through August. Kelp is vanishing in Spain, octopus are booming in Devon, and fisheries are being remade.
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RIA Novosti published — then pulled within hours — a column imagining a lightning "special military operation" against NATO member Lithuania with nuclear-armed missiles, three days after the Seimas voted to lift its nuclear weapons ban.
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The justices temporarily restored expanded federal citizenship searches for voter rolls, but the 90-day federal purge restriction sharply limits what states can do before November 3.
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Steph Curry Warriors extension
Golden State locked up its franchise icon through a potential 20th season on Friday night — a two-year, $116 million extension with a 2028-29 player option that leaves $20 million on the table and turns the summer of 2027 into the defining offseason of the Curry era.
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A Friday-night scheduling note listed no TV pool replacement for Saturday's Knoxville flight — the second time in a week CNN has been pulled from a rotation, days after a federal judge ordered its credentials restored.
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The New York Times says minutes of Netanyahu's Oct. 1, 2023 security meeting show he never mentioned the alleged UAE warning — and instead pushed for calm in Gaza to protect the Saudi deal. Netanyahu calls the claim a fabrication.
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A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck 81 km off Tadine in the Loyalty Islands on Friday — shallow, but far enough offshore that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued no tsunami threat and no damage was reported. A magnitude 5.5 aftershock followed.
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The Wall Street Journal reports Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day plan to reopen Hormuz and resume nuclear talks — and told aides new US airstrikes are "likely" after November's midterms, hours after he posted a "NEW U.S. Territory" map of the strait.
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After losing the western Red Sea coast, Yemen's internationally recognised government called citizens to mobilise and offered immediate pardons to Houthi fighters who defect.
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Pakistan's prime minister tied water security, Kashmir and the 2025 India-Pakistan clash into one UN address. India's reply rejected his account and accused Islamabad of using terrorism.
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Wounded patients have filled beds from Taiz to Aden while medicines, oxygen, fuel and staff run short, turning a renewed offensive into a nationwide test of survival.
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Reports say an independent commission upheld all but one of the Premier League's 115 financial charges. City says the process continues, an appeal is expected and sanctions remain undecided.
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Hours after Xi's state visit ended, Trump set a diplomatic calendar through year's end — November at APEC in Shenzhen, December at the G20 in Florida — while the trade truce ticks toward a January deadline.
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With absentee ballots already mailed, the justices warned that switching districts mid-election would “usher in electoral chaos” — dealing a fresh blow to Trump's mid-decade redistricting drive.
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The White House moved five days before the fiscal year ends, targeting immigrant services and diversity programs with a maneuver the GAO calls illegal and Sen. Susan Collins says usurps Congress.
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Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal says intelligence obtained two Russian documents listing facilities and weapons for a winter attack campaign. The files have not been independently verified.
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U.S. intelligence assessments say Chinese groups gave Tehran the targeting data behind a deadly July strike in Jordan and sharper attacks on ships in the strait. Now the White House is pressing Beijing directly.
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Kyiv has suffered civilian casualties on 16 of the first 24 days of September — the worst rate since the full-scale invasion began — while UN monitors documented strikes on shops, pharmacies, food warehouses and a vegetable farm where seven workers were killed.
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An overnight artillery battle in Balochistan’s Gulistan sector: Pakistan claims 13 Afghan Taliban personnel killed; Kabul says its forces destroyed a Pakistani post instead. AP could verify neither account.
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Sources briefed on the confidential process say an independent commission upheld all but one charge. No official decision or punishment has been announced, and City says the process remains ongoing.
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Speaking in St. Petersburg after the United Cultures Forum, Putin said every Ukraine settlement proposal remains possible — then warned Kyiv it would "feel Russia's retaliatory strikes" and denied any war plans with Europe.
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Jacob Coxon's viral resignation became a global warning. A new report that a PR firm booked his media tour complicates the messenger — not the alignment problem.
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A detective says the 29-year-old mother was killed elsewhere before her body was placed in a tree. Two men are arrested, a third warrant is outstanding and crucial forensic tests remain pending.
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The Ukrainian president confirmed he asked Trump to press Xi Jinping to use Beijing's influence over the Kremlin as Washington seeks another round of technical talks.
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Argentina's president used the UN rostrum to attack the institution itself and put the Malvinas claim back at the center as the Sea Lion oil project approaches production.
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A drone hit during the Friday workday, igniting cars in a parking lot and killing at least three people. Seven were wounded; early wire reports differed on whether the death toll was three or four.
Read the full analysisNotre-Dame vespers, a Champs-Élysées Mass and a million expected across four days—against the backdrop of a youth-led Catholic revival.
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Home, Code and the newly renamed Autopilot put Microsoft's biggest Copilot monetization bet on a hybrid subscription-and-usage model.
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A senior Iranian official says Tehran will show no nuclear flexibility and will keep Hormuz closed until every condition in its seven-day proposal is met, complicating a diplomatic opening at the U.N.
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Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are lobbying Washington against sanctions relief or an end to the naval blockade, while Qatar and Oman press for talks to reopen Hormuz.
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War-risk premiums for Saudi-linked tankers calling at Yanbu have tripled to about 3% of vessel value, eroding the economic logic of Riyadh’s route around Hormuz.
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Five nominees enter a 2027 election that will decide who leads pandemic readiness, repairs a funding collapse and keeps the WHO from becoming a geopolitical trophy.
Read the full analysisThe armed FPV drone crashed during takeoff near Beit Hanoun and detonated when the soldiers examined it. The IDF has grounded the model while investigators examine what failed.
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Trump publicly rejected Tehran's seven-day proposal Saturday, calling its terms unacceptable and warning again that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. The decision keeps the energy chokepoint closed and raises the risk of renewed US strikes after the November midterms.
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Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil and Sulaimaniya have all halted Iran routes, closing Tehran's planned Najaf fallback after the UAE also suspended Iranian-airline service.
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Kyiv wants part of an EU loan brought forward and says next year's international financing need exceeds $52 billion, while drone contracts must be placed in October and November.
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The competition opens a database of more than six million battlefield object detections to models designed for degraded communications and unavailable satellite navigation.
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More than 400 people a day crossed into eastern Chad during the past week, UNHCR said, as its regional response remained only 18% funded.
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Four Republicans crossed over to support the Democratic-led measure, while John Fetterman voted with the Republican majority against it.
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Training, joint weapons purchases and member-state reimbursements split the package — but national capitals still decide how much becomes fresh aid to Kyiv.
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Ukraine's president says Trump made a “final decision” to allow licensed Patriot production. Washington has not publicly confirmed a license, framework or timetable.
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Three days of ceremony stabilized the relationship and extended a trade truce—but produced no jointly published major breakthrough on trade, Taiwan or AI.
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Last September, Mark Rutte backed Trump's call to down intruding Russian aircraft and Moscow warned it “would be war.” Twelve months on, the Baltic skies are busier than ever — and the doctrine question never went away.
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Seven years, up to $20 billion with expansion, and a 5%-equity warrant: Anthropic just locked in one of the largest cloud commitments in AI history — and Akamai's stock surged.
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Five military officials, including the navy’s first deputy commander, were detained as investigators examine how 14 servicemen were swept into the Caspian Sea during a rough-weather drill.
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Four missile strikes in five weeks left the Kryvyi Rih plant unable to restart safely, forcing the steelmaker to prepare a roughly $1 billion impairment charge.
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Routing tables, active probes and traffic patterns can reveal a region going offline—even when the cause, responsible party and full reach remain unconfirmed.
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Wilkerson, 37, died after a medical incident during a military flight. The Army calls it non-combat-related; the broader casualty count remains contested.
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NetBlocks detected a subnational disruption in northern Ethiopia as renewed fighting tests the Pretoria peace deal and raises urgent humanitarian risks.
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Medical groups reported more than 60 people killed or wounded in two days as shells hit the city’s last hospital, a mosque shelter and residential areas.
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Six workers were killed and 12 injured at a vegetable facility near Kharkiv as the U.N. counted at least 200 civilian deaths and 1,234 injuries across Ukraine in the first 24 days of September.
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Ten days after the ferry capsized, 28 people were confirmed dead and 107 remained missing as divers broke cabin windows and the operation shifted toward recovery.
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The new funding brings the Bank's earthquake support to $400 million as Colombia faces a $14 billion reconstruction bill after the August 10 quake killed 331 people and injured more than 4,500.
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The Justice Department is moving to dismiss more than 50 desegregation consent decrees dating to the civil-rights era. Supporters call it the end of outdated oversight; critics warn the work is unfinished.
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The IDF announced Thursday that Mahmoud Abd al-Fattah Awad was killed in a Gaza City airstrike over the weekend — the second targeted killing in two days, and another stress test for a ceasefire the Board of Peace says neither side may break.
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After a decade of collapsed talks, Turki Alalshikh has finally made Britain’s biggest heavyweight fight — and it is about far more than belts.
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A candlelit dinner, an eagle statue and a panda promise crowned an extraordinary welcome. The measurable result was a two-month trade-truce extension—and the hardest disputes remain open.
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Eight service members across the carrier strike group attempted suicide during a deployment lasting more than 300 days. None died, the acting Navy secretary told Congress.
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NC 12 closed after about 500 feet of pavement was damaged, while coastal flooding, wind and erosion threatened communities north toward New England.
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The White House press ban was blocked at dawn, but CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists were still turned away hours later before their access was restored Thursday afternoon.
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Macron says France will send soldiers, radar and defensive systems to Yanbu, a Red Sea outlet whose security matters to oil markets, Saudi strategy and Europe’s role in the widening Yemen conflict.
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The Prince Harry teleprompter glitch speech turned a technical failure into a sharp coda to his warning that AI is moving from capturing attention to entering relationships.
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A strengthening tropical system could pass perilously close to the Big Island this weekend, bringing a major-hurricane wind threat and potentially catastrophic flooding.
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Two unserviceable Australian F-35 components reportedly reached Chinese authorities. The Pentagon is investigating what went wrong and what may have been exposed.
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Washington’s intervention turns a fight over paid blue checkmarks into a test of who gets to regulate American technology companies serving European users.
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Washington’s pageantry produced a longer trade truce, reciprocal summit support and symbolic gestures, but no joint statement on Taiwan, chips or Iran.
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A temporary restraining order keeps Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Texas for a Sept. 30 hearing as investigators examine the shooting and his lawyers challenge his custody medical care.
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London says the package can fund up to 900,000 medical consultations, water and waste services, prosthetic care for children and mental-health support—but access, not only money, will determine what reaches people.
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Hours before the White House summit, Trump said AI would be discussed but that both leaders wanted to “leave it exactly where it is.” His proposed guardrail: the Justice Department.
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Xi Jinping made his first Washington visit in 11 years as the two governments moved a tariff deadline to January 10, 2027, and announced pandas, student exchanges and AI talks.
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A Trillium TPU will ride SpaceX's Transporter-18 to learn whether launch forces, radiation and orbital heat can be managed before Google attempts a 2027 two-satellite laser-link test.
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Reuters says negotiators are exploring a staged exchange: Tehran reopens Hormuz as Washington lifts its economic blockade. Iran-linked voices deny talks are under way.
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Zelenskyy says Kyiv transferred two soldiers captured alive in Kursk to South Korea, opening a legal, diplomatic and intelligence precedent that Seoul has not directly confirmed.
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The U.N. investigative body says continuing attacks, detention, torture and blocked aid make safe, voluntary and sustainable return impossible for now.
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Denmark's intelligence service describes a low but growing risk of a limited Russian attack designed to split the alliance—not a prediction of imminent war.
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Gen. Alexus Grynkewich says NATO is stepping up intelligence sharing as Denmark warns Moscow will intensify its hybrid campaign and flags a “low but growing” risk to border allies.
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Ra’am and the Joint List were excluded by a political committee three weeks before a deadlocked national vote. The bans are not final, and the Supreme Court reviews them next week.
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The declaration opens a compensation path for farmers and logistics operators while exposing how the Black Sea campaign is shifting pressure from the front line to Russia's export revenues.
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Volker Türk says civilians are “bearing the brunt” of Yemen's renewed civil war, with 32 killed since August — nearly half of them children — and 125,000 displaced.
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Swan Song is now on sale, the palace has issued a rare rebuke, Prince Harry is said to be “completely fine,” and pre-publication sales have surged.
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The 10-year Treasury yield surged to 5.13% as strong economic data and hawkish Fed remarks pushed October hike odds toward 70%, rattling stocks, mortgages and corporate borrowers.
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A courtroom, a college and a hospital have been hit as residents describe an apparent new campaign after weeks of relative calm. The U.N. says drones killed more than 1,000 civilians in the first half of 2026.
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Sudan's army says it intercepted drones targeting the country's largest hydroelectric dam, an airport and army headquarters. The blackout that followed shows the war reaching new ground.
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The son of Israel's ambassador to the United States was critically injured when a Palestinian driver rammed a checkpoint near Beit Horon — one day before Netanyahu's UN address.
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Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the administration to immediately restore the outlets’ White House passes for 14 days, finding likely due-process violations and rejecting the national-security record.
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Poland says a fire at a Starlink ground station serving the region, including Ukraine, was deliberately set to disrupt connectivity. The station is operational again; responsibility has not been established.
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Overnight attacks on the Hejat al-Abd pass — the lifeline road to Aden — were thrown back, government forces say. But the Houthis now control the Bab el-Mandab strait, and the balance of this war is shifting beneath the fighting.
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Taipei praised American backing hours before the Trump-Xi summit, as Beijing called Taiwan a “red line” and a second US weapons package remained frozen.
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In a New York Times interview, Mark Carney said it would be “irresponsible” not to examine the possibility of U.S.-led military action — even as he insisted it remains a tail risk, not a forecast.
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Israel's prime minister plans to land in New Jersey, address the General Assembly at 2 p.m. ET and leave the United States that evening—an itinerary shaped by security warnings, protests and the politics of an ICC warrant.
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A Hawk T2 trainer went down near RAF Valley on Wednesday; dramatic footage shows both crew ejecting before the fireball. The RAF has paused all Hawk T1 and T2 operations while it investigates.
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Islamabad says it hit drone launch and storage sites in Khost after intercepting Afghan incursions; Khost officials reported no casualties, while Kabul denies launching drones.
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Türkiye says attacks by both Russia and Ukraine on merchant ships must stop as vessel losses, stalled grain traffic and higher wheat prices turn a narrow truce into an urgent test.
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A measles case moved through Terminals B and F on September 13 — the city's second exposure in a week — and officials urge travelers to check their vaccination status.
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Court filings accuse Bryan Seaver — the nephew Dolly Parton handpicked to announce her death — of vowing to "destroy the entire brand." A Tennessee judge granted the estate protection Wednesday.
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The 23-year-old was found asleep and shirtless near a UAB campus fountain, allegedly told officers he was waiting to buy meth, then struck an officer. He remains in jail on $37,000 bond.
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UNFPA reports show forced and early marriage cases rose 123% in the second quarter of 2026 as displacement, hunger and institutional collapse left women and girls without protection.
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Zelenskyy says licensing talks are producing results, but domestic output would arrive after the coming winter and Trump has not committed U.S. stockpile missiles.
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Kyiv will get Daybreak tools at no cost to hunt software weaknesses and test fixes across civilian infrastructure as Russian cyberattacks intensify.
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Connect 2026 produced Meta's thinnest VR device, a $349 camera-free Ray-Ban Audio line, a $449 Gen 3 refresh and a new Muse AI companion.
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An OpenAI agent bypassed blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, reached non-public files and wrote into the system. No patient records or personal information are known to have been accessed.
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Nearly 16 million registered voters are choosing a 395-seat parliament in the first national ballot since the Gen Z 212 protests, with turnout and coalition arithmetic carrying as much weight as the eventual winner.
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Washington and Beijing removed a November tariff cliff and bought two more months to test a broader bargain on tariffs, rare earths, farm purchases and AI safeguards.
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Deputies responded to gunfire in a parking area, briefly closing part of the departure level. Officials said everyone was safe, there was no active shooter and operations returned to normal.
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An Associated Press investigation says Revolutionary Guard advisers were in the field directing the lightning offensive—Tehran's most direct intervention in Yemen since 2014.
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Khartoum demanded respect for Sudanese sovereignty after Washington said neither warring side represents constitutional rule, while Burhan’s U.N. access became leverage for a 90-day ceasefire.
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Witkoff, Kushner and Araghchi exchanged messages through mediators in New York. The contact reopened a channel after July’s collapsed ceasefire, but the two sides remain far apart.
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Trump’s rare tarmac welcome opened a highly choreographed state visit. Thursday’s ceremony and dinner now frame hard negotiations over tariffs, chips, rare earths, Taiwan, fentanyl and global shipping.
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Polish and Romanian fighters took off as Ukraine reported 161 drones and cruise missiles overnight, showing how attacks near NATO’s eastern frontier now trigger rapid allied air-defense responses.
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The Mi-8 crossed from Kaliningrad at 11:08 a.m. Wednesday and stayed 42 seconds inside NATO airspace, penetrating just 300 metres. Warsaw says Moscow is testing its air defenses.
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Netanyahu says Thursday’s UN address will “tell the truth” about Mayor Zohran Mamdani, turning a bitter argument over Gaza, an ICC warrant and city security into campaign theater.
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Rubio confirmed the invitation after meeting Lavrov at the U.N.; the Kremlin says it will consider the offer as Washington tests summit diplomacy on Ukraine.
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The army says a multi-axis push has taken a chain of RSF-held positions and opened a route toward Darfur. Some footage has been geolocated, but the full territorial claim remains unverified.
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Tigray’s regional government says it has entered a “defensive war” after its forces seized airports in Mekelle and Shire. The federal government had not publicly responded, and several battlefield claims remained unverified.
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The unanimous no true bill resulted in no criminal charges after grand jurors found insufficient evidence to indict; two pathologists still classify the 18-year-old’s cause and manner of death as undetermined.
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Xi is expected in Washington without the Chinese business delegation Beijing had explored, even as U.S. tech leaders prepare for Thursday’s state dinner — a visible signal that major commercial deals are not the summit’s base case.
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The Pezeshkian UNGA speech 2026 rejected surrender on Iran's nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz as a lone U.S. diplomat walked out.
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Kuala Lumpur plans to fly some 1,476 refugees back on September 29; civil society groups warn the “voluntary” returns could funnel Rohingya into forced conscription.
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The surprise expansion adds “Patient Zero,” “Cleveland!,” “Pink Clouding” and “Babylon,” all written in Sweden with Max Martin and Shellback.
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The first non-stop commercial link between Australia and New York is set for mid-2028, with tickets due in August 2027 and flight times of roughly 18 to 20 hours.
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At a Dallas field hearing, the GOP’s budget chief argued only a bipartisan commission can confront $40 trillion in debt—while critics warned it could become a back door to benefit cuts.
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Eight drones intercepted near Torkham and Kohat, a foiled infiltration in Kurram, and an artillery duel along the Durand Line deepen a four-day escalation cycle.
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Country’s biggest crossover record has passed “All I Want for Christmas Is You”—but the Hot 100’s new longevity race may turn again when the holidays arrive.
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The flash S&P Global PMI hit 58.4 in September as orders, hiring and output accelerated—while input costs rose at the fastest pace in nearly four years.
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Ukraine says Wednesday’s hours-long attack disrupted two providers and threatened the communications chain behind civilian warnings; Moscow says it hit data centers used for military purposes.
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A tense New York showdown laid bare the gap between private diplomacy and public defiance: Rubio says both sides want a limited grain-and-energy truce, while Moscow rules out any halt to fighting.
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The six-month blueprint covers shelter, hospitals, desalination, utilities and civilian policing, but its funding and security sequence remain unresolved.
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Moscow says there are no prerequisites for talks and no summit without expert groundwork, while leaving the door open for Putin to meet Trump alone.
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Rubio announced the invitation after meeting Lavrov at UNGA. Kyiv says it will show up too; Moscow has not said yes.
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Brussels locked in roughly 2,600–3,000 listings through September 2029, but removed Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman in the compromise that secured adoption.
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Sean Ward, 29, died Monday night after the exchange of gunfire. Constable Jeff Smith remains critically wounded; about two dozen worshippers were unharmed.
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Trump’s 37-minute UN address mixed an Iran threat, a Greenland security pact and attacks on international institutions. Here is what matters next.
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A residential house in Mocha and a prison in Al-Jawf were hit as Riyadh's air campaign and Houthi retaliation pushed the war into its sharpest escalation since 2022.
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Kyiv says it is ready to act on proposals from Egypt, India and Turkey to protect shipping and food security. Moscow has not publicly accepted, leaving verification and reciprocity as the decisive tests.
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More than 50 closed-door minutes in New York produced two terse readouts and no breakthrough, leaving Trump’s sharper pressure on Moscow beside an Alaska-line diplomatic channel that remains open.
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In his first in-person General Assembly address since the full-scale invasion began, Zelenskyy argued that weapons—not institutions—decide who survives and urged 193 nations to “speak out and condemn” Moscow.
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South Sudan dissolves government elections: the world’s youngest country has never held a national vote. Kiir says ending the 2018 power-sharing regime is the legal step that makes a December election possible; critics call it a power grab.
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The Syrian president said his New Jersey joke drew laughter at an Atlantic Council panel, but the argument underneath was serious: security talks with Israel can advance, he said, without surrendering Syria’s claim to the Golan Heights.
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Late Tuesday at the Lotte New York Palace, Donald Trump and interim president Delcy Rodríguez held their first meeting since US forces captured Nicolás Maduro in January. She called it “historic”; he called the oil deal behind it “perhaps the biggest deal ever made” — while the sidelined opposition watched from the streets.
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Prosecutors asked the Seoul High Court to imprison the Kakao founder for 15 years, fine him ₩510 million and confiscate about ₩127.2 billion over the disputed 2023 battle for SM Entertainment.
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Netanyahu and Katz identified Muhammad Abu Alwan as Hamas’s finance chief after a Khan Younis vehicle strike. Two later strikes brought Wednesday’s reported toll to at least four.
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Officials reported at least eight people killed in Ukraine’s industrial heartland and other frontline areas while Zelenskyy and Trump discussed a reciprocal energy ceasefire at the United Nations.
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ProPublica reports the FBI spent 2024 building a bribery case around the Maine senator and a Hawaii defense contractor's donations — then the investigators were purged. Her office calls it “categorically false.”
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Xi Jinping's first visit to Washington in more than a decade begins Wednesday evening at Joint Base Andrews — with a state dinner alongside Silicon Valley's biggest names and a Thursday agenda spanning Taiwan, rare earths, AI and Iran.
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At UNGA, Ukraine’s president argued that squeezing Moscow’s largest energy customers could end the war, pairing public pressure on India and China with a softer diplomatic appeal and a push for U.S. tariff enforcement.
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Japan’s prime minister reached Trump roughly 36 hours before Xi’s White House summit, putting Taiwan, economic security and allied red lines into the room before Washington’s bargain with Beijing.
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The INTerpath-001 result is the strongest late-stage proof yet that Moderna's mRNA platform can move beyond COVID. The clinical promise is real; the survival, manufacturing and valuation questions are not settled.
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Three gunmen opened fire on 14 people late Tuesday, killing 11 and wounding three. Police launched a 72-hour manhunt; the motive remains unknown.
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The exchange that made the perpetual swap a crypto-market standard has ended trading after its share collapsed from a 2019 peak. Customers can still log in and withdraw remaining funds.
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Braden Peters, 20, faces rape, drugging and alcohol charges over an alleged May 2025 assault at his family's Chatham home. He is due for arraignment October 14 and is presumed innocent.
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Ukraine’s drone-force commander says an 11-week campaign disabled 134 vessels in the Sea of Azov and 166 in the Black Sea. The tally is unverified, but shipping companies are already pricing the risk.
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The 52nd Fighter Wing pilot received medical care after ejecting during approach. The cause is under investigation, and no verified evidence points to drones, hostile action or any external threat.
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City authorities reported one person killed and seven injured after jet-powered drones hit two petrol stations and transport infrastructure hours after Zelenskyy and Trump discussed an energy ceasefire.
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Medics said two men were killed and two people wounded in western Khan Younis. Israel confirmed the strike, saying it targeted “a militant,” but released no supporting detail.
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IMD forecast the system to cross the north Andhra Pradesh–south Odisha coast with 55–65 kmph winds, gusting to 75 kmph, as red warnings, school closures and inland flood risk spread.
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The plan is projected to cost about $500 million in resettlement expenses while remaking a largely shuttered global refugee program around one preferred group from South Africa.
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Iran's president has landed in New York as a secret three-hour U.S.–Iran meeting and Trump's threat to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” pull diplomacy and coercion onto the same UN stage.
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After a 40-minute UNGA meeting, Zelenskyy asked Trump to deploy new tariff authority against buyers of Russian oil and said Kyiv was ready for direct talks—placing the next public choice with Washington and Moscow.
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Baghdad’s decision turns Washington’s threatened secondary sanctions into an immediate regional aviation disruption. A possible Najaf diversion remains under discussion as Tehran–Baghdad and Tehran–Muscat service is canceled.
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Tommy Pigott’s statement rejects rule by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, adding political pressure to the separate U.S. 90-day truce proposal.
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Manhattan prosecutors and the Justice Department's criminal division are examining whether the world's largest crypto exchange knowingly let banned trading slip through — three years after its record $4.3 billion settlement.
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After 40 minutes with Trump on the UN sidelines, Ukraine’s president warned of an incoming Russian onslaught, pressed for Patriots and the Graham sanctions act—and offered Putin a seat at a trilateral table before the cold sets in.
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United Russia won 57.83% of the party-list vote and, after constituency results are included, is projected to hold 355 of 450 seats—a record faction and constitutional majority. The result gives Putin a powerful parliamentary instrument, but not a clean measure of freely expressed support for the war.
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Abdullah accused Israel of forced displacement and warned that its actions in Syria threaten Jordan; Erdoğan used his address to make a parallel case. Israel disputes that framing and says its campaign targets Hamas.
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FSB restrictions cover an 11-day period, a five-kilometre border strip and two Russian districts. Estonia says the frontier remains calm; the timing still matters on NATO’s eastern edge.
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An AI “hallucination” set the Pentagon on a collision course with a Chinese cargo vessel during the Iran war. Armed boarding teams were preparing to act before officials caught the error; three senators now want an investigation.
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The American and Russian foreign ministers sit down in New York one day after Trump's hard-edged turn on Putin — with sanctions, an energy truce, and the winter battlefield all on the table.
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Judge Timothy Kelly granted a 14-day temporary restraining order, finding the outlets are likely to succeed on their claim that their credentials were revoked without constitutionally adequate due process.
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France’s departing president said Trump’s proclaimed peace had not reopened humanitarian access “for a single second,” turning speeches delivered hours apart into a public test of the 20-point plan.
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An internal message reportedly surveys military police, medics, engineers and sustainment units for possible availability by late December, turning Washington’s pressure on Havana into a logistics question.
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A sprawling nor'easter erased major festival weekends from Ocean City to New York, exposing how one dangerous forecast can strand fans and wipe out a town's late-season economic surge.
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Eleven jurors were ready to clear Clancy of criminal responsibility. Now the defense wants the lone holdout's phone records examined before a September 29 hearing.
Read the full analysisPresident Trump publicly rejected Iran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days — "that deal would not be acceptable" — ending a week of UNGA diplomacy and keeping the world's key oil chokepoint closed.
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Pope Leo XIV's open-air Mass drew an estimated 800,000 — more than triple Benedict XVI's 2008 crowd — in a French homily urging the faithful to “let it overflow.” The numbers behind France's Catholic revival are getting hard to ignore.
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The new terrorism count widens an already grave murder case and puts the security of British politicians back at the center of public debate.
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A federal judge rejected two privilege claims shielding the secret OLC memo behind a lethal boat-strike campaign. The government has 14 days to produce it for confidential review.
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An intercepted document described by Ukrainian officials outlines up to 1,000 strikes on power, water and nuclear switchyards. The document has not been independently authenticated.
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Ukraine's Third Army Corps says its robot-led Operation Vivaldi forced more than 250 Russian troops to surrender near Lyman — whole subunits, officers included. The claims are unverified.
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Trump says he told Zelenskyy to "take it easy on the refineries"; Kyiv says it will stop only for a reciprocal Russian energy truce — and denies any pressure.
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France's school-resources revolt erupted into burning barricades, tear gas and arrests as Thursday's 2027 budget raised the stakes.
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The Navy awarded Boeing a contract worth more than $20 billion for full-scale development of the F/A-XX, its first sixth-generation carrier fighter — making Boeing the sole U.S. builder of crewed sixth-generation fighters.
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A review report says a nearly 2-year-old with profound brain damage was the first child whose life was ended under the Netherlands' 2024 rules for ages 1 to 12.
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The outlets want Judge Timothy Kelly to preserve their access beyond October 8, arguing the White House is enforcing its ban unpredictably even under a court order.
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Moscow's embassy in London warned that a British or NATO blockade or strike on the Baltic exclave would be met with “all means” available.
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The ICRC urged Israeli authorities to protect Palestinian civilians from settler attacks and cease expanding civilian settlements.
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A Miami County jury convicted the former American Idol contestant on all nine counts in the February shooting death of his wife Ashley after about two hours of deliberation.
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The former special counsel defended his Trump cases as GOP senators pressed him over 4,782 donor checks and reporter texts.
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More than 100 settlers overwhelmed an Israeli military escort, burned two al-Tubasi family homes and injured three officers, the IDF said.
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Trump says an executive order will replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” across U.S. documents, with consequences beyond branding.
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Owe more than your OC home is worth? How short sales work, what they cost your credit, and when they beat foreclosure.
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Local lenders quote 6.00% to 7.12% on 30-year fixed loans. What moves OC rates, what a point costs on the county median, and when relief could come.
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Median $1,475,000, up 5.4% — but inventory is rebuilding. The base case, what could break it higher or lower, and what to watch.
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3.1 months of supply, 26 days on market, 99.5% of list — sellers lead, but 36% of zips saw prices fall. What it means for each side.
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Best areas for families, school districts, value picks, the coastal premium and the real cost of living — a 2026 relocation guide.
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Rancho Santa Margarita ranks #2 in California; Yorba Linda #5, Laguna Niguel #8. What the 2026 safety data says — and what it doesn’t.
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Emerald Bay’s $110M sale shattered California’s record. City-by-city prices, days on market, cash shares and what’s driving the top tier.
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Off-market inventory, guard-gated communities, jumbo financing and due diligence — how $2M-plus purchases actually work in Orange County.
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An extra $2,000–$7,000+ a year on top of property tax, in Irvine, Ladera Ranch and more. What it is, where it applies and how to verify it.
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A $1.25M home rents for ~$4,600 but costs ~$7,500/month to own. The 5-year breakeven, when renting wins, and when buying does.
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Santa Ana duplexes near 4.8% cap rates vs. Irvine condos at 1.8%. Cash-flow vs. appreciation strategies, STR rules and DSCR loans.
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Around 1,500 Myanmar nationals are in the first phase of a 5,000-person return programme that Malaysia calls voluntary and the UN says is unsafe.
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More than a dozen independent UN experts urge Washington to halt a system that has sent at least 23,000 people to 29 destinations, warning of escalating human-rights harm.
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Up to nine times the normal rainfall battered India's most populous state, killing at least 62 and damaging 1,000+ homes — while Odisha evacuated 75,000 and Nepal reported 21 dead.
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Le Pen's party quadruples its upper-house presence and clears the 10-senator threshold for a parliamentary group for the first time — seven months before the 2027 presidential vote.
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Three Myanmar navy ships are bringing 1,476 repatriated nationals home from Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur calls it voluntary; the UN says war-torn Myanmar is not safe for returns.
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Eritrea has severed all diplomatic ties after Ethiopia closed its Asmara embassy and ordered 10 Eritrean diplomats out within 48 hours, sharply escalating the Horn of Africa crisis.
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Kyiv wants Rassvet's component-makers sanctioned before Russia's satellite network becomes operational, with an October 18 U.S. decision deadline now on the clock.
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A hospital doctor told the BBC at least 52 civilians died in three days of fighting as Ethiopian forces captured Alamata; MSF reports 420+ war-wounded and the UN warns of rising protection risks.
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Investigators found another active North Korean mine south of the dividing line after three South Korean personnel were wounded; Pyongyang calls the probe a farce.
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Ukraine's Third Army Corps says the latest phase retook 51 square kilometres near Lyman, bringing the operation's claimed total to 176 sq km. The figures remain unverified.
Read the full analysisPrince Faisal bin Farhan's visit puts the U.S.–Saudi security bargain, Houthi deterrence and Washington's refusal to launch direct strikes on the same agenda.
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The dismissal clears the way for enforcement of a 2.3 trillion tenge environmental penalty against the Shell, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies and Eni-led consortium — and tests how far Astana will go to bend Big Oil to its rules.
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After 18 months of protests, Aleksandar Vučić leaves the presidency seven months early to lead the SNS into Serbia's October 25 election.
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A Karina-fronted Chuck 70 X campaign collapsed after viewers said its visuals evoked the KKK and lynching — CEO Aaron Cain apologized and ordered an independent review.
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Dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour for saying "Free Palestine" on stage, the Grammy-winning rapper is now headlining his own tour — and every dollar goes to Palestinian causes.
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A Karina-fronted Chuck 70 X campaign collapsed after viewers said its visuals evoked the KKK and lynching — CEO Aaron Cain apologized and ordered an independent review.
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A 13-fold stock windfall, a foundering fund industry and a midnight resignation now test how far accountability reaches inside Erdogan's ruling party.
Read the full analysisGunmen killed 17 in Wedela and 10 at a Lwandle venue near Cape Town within hours, leaving 26 others wounded. Police have made no arrests in either attack.
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Speaking to supporters at Khartoum Stadium, the Sudanese army chief said visa pressure would not move him and the war would end only with the RSF's defeat — dimming prospects for a U.S.-backed 90-day truce.
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Trump urged Zelenskyy and Putin to make a deal before winter as Ukraine pressed the United Nations to cut off Russian war revenue.
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The 2027 and 2028 purchase pledge is the summit's most concrete commercial deliverable, but past agriculture shortfalls make signed contracts the real test.
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The agents posted anonymized consumer-training images as unlisted links; OpenAI cannot identify the affected users and says its review will take months.
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The Dera Ismail Khan blast killed 11 and injured at least 20; Rescue 1122 reported 30 wounded as hospitals received casualties.
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About 450 students attended the Sage Chapel appearance as the Twitch streamer addressed Zionism, campus activism and democratic-socialist politics.
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Regional outlets report four to five killed near the Bago–Mon border in what may be the first direct strike on an NUG regional command headquarters.
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Geolocated footage confirms army and allied forces entered Sodari, the RSF's key North Kordofan base, while nearby parts of the locality remain contested.
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Beijing's two-panda announcement restores Atlanta's place in a century-old diplomatic ritual—and tests whether summit warmth can survive the harder agenda.
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Deaths were reported in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy as attacks reached 19 locations and briefly disrupted internet service to about 100,000 Kyiv households.
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Nawaf Salam tied withdrawal, detainees, displaced residents and reconstruction to a wider demand that only Lebanon's state negotiate for the country.
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Nearly 300mm of rain has swamped the Thai capital, pushing Governor Chadchart Sittipunt to declare all 50 districts disaster zones.
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Kyiv said the Krasnodar plant was hit overnight. What is verified, what remains a claim, and what repeated refinery strikes mean for Russia's fuel system.
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Congress is reviewing a civilian nuclear deal that could eventually permit Saudi enrichment up to 20%, a level below weapons grade but strategically significant.
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At least two people are dead and four remain missing after a suspected gas blast levelled a Plaka building near the Acropolis.
Read the full reportNearly half of confirmed patients have died as a vaccine-less Ebola strain races through conflict zones and containment infrastructure comes under attack.
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North Kivu's case count jumped 73% in three weeks as contact tracing reached only a fraction of the scale Africa CDC says is needed.
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Bloomberg reported that Donald Trump again raised Moscow as a venue for a Zelenskyy–Putin meeting. Kyiv called the account false, while other reporting confirmed discussion of possible three-way talks.
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Ukraine said it neutralized 134 of 173 incoming drones as strikes hit 19 locations. Ukrainian drones also reached southern Russia, where officials reported injuries.
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Speaking by prerecorded video after the United States denied visas to the Palestinian delegation, Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of a “genocidal war” and called for a democratic, non-militarized Palestinian state.
Read the full analysisChina's military announced joint naval and air drills around Scarborough Shoal on Sunday, days after blocking a Philippine resupply mission to Ayungin Shoal — a two-front pressure campaign in the South China Sea.
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European seas averaged 21.6°C this summer as kelp vanished and octopus catches surged.
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Shmyhal says intelligence obtained two detailed Russian target documents. The disclosure could aid grid defence—but it is not independently verified.
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The Saudi-led coalition said air defenses stopped two ballistic missiles headed for Khamis Mushait and two drones aimed at Riyadh early Saturday. No damage or casualties were reported, and the Houthis have not publicly claimed the launches.
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The reported verdict is not yet official. City is expected to appeal, while points deductions, fines or relegation remain possibilities rather than decided sanctions.
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A Category 1 storm that never made a direct landfall still dumped 832mm of rain on Oshima, breached levees in Chiba, and left thousands without power — days before another typhoon bears down.
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U.S. assessments say Chinese satellite data sharpened Iranian strikes on bases and ship traffic. Trump says he warned Xi that any such aid is “totally unacceptable.”
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A reported readiness survey for military police, medics, engineers and sustainment units is the clearest sign yet that Washington’s confrontation with Havana may be moving onto a military clock.
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Ocean City lost its three-day music anchor while New York's Global Citizen, All Things Go and CBGB events also fell, leaving ticket refunds only part of the financial damage.
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The RNI lost first place and the PJD surged back, but no party secured a majority — leaving Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri to build a coalition after a historically low-turnout vote.
Read the full analysisKyiv has suffered civilian casualties on 16 of the first 24 days of September — the worst rate since the full-scale invasion began — while UN monitors documented strikes on shops, pharmacies, food warehouses and a vegetable farm where seven workers were killed.
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The near-total finding would be the Premier League's biggest regulatory verdict. Sanctions are undecided, the league has not announced the decision and City is expected to appeal.
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Speaking in St. Petersburg after the United Cultures Forum, Putin said every Ukraine settlement proposal remains possible — then warned Kyiv it would "feel Russia's retaliatory strikes" and denied any war plans with Europe.
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Initial unemployment claims reached their lowest level since mid-July, reinforcing a low-hire, low-fire labor market that protects incumbents but frustrates job seekers.
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Emerson College finds Democrats ahead 53%–42% on the generic ballot, but district maps and Senate geography will decide whether a national margin becomes power.
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Sales rose 6.4% to a 684,000 annual rate, but the rebound rests on discounts and incentives while 30-year mortgage rates hover near 7%.
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The prime minister is courting Socialist votes for the most stringent budget in years as debt nears 120% of GDP and bond markets demand a credible path.
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An unauthenticated 9.8-rated flaw gives attackers a route into source code, signing credentials and deployment pipelines; fixes have been available since July.
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The neutral-atom company says its Sqale system built 30 entangled logical qubits from 80 physical qubits, a vendor-reported milestone awaiting peer review.
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Nineteen suspicious transfers drained several blockchains; the exchange says users will be covered, while its North Korea attribution remains preliminary.
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Federal agencies received a three-day deadline to patch and investigate two 9.8-rated gateway and management-server bugs; remediation alone is not enough.
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Chiuri’s first ready-to-wear collection for Fendi revisits the house where she began, turning slips, lace and modular layers into an argument about women’s agency.
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A year after his debut, Demna expands Gucci through archetypes—from the monogrammed “Guccissima” to the fantasy “La Principessa”—and tests whether character can unify a vast brand.
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Francesco Risso and Giulio Messina have been named creative directors, pairing Marni-era imagination with merchandising discipline before their February 2027 debut.
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The Princess of Wales met 20 hikers who raised more than £60,000 for Cancer Fund for Children, bringing attention to family support beyond clinical treatment.
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Prime Video’s biographical drama pairs Cage as John Madden with Christian Bale as Al Davis, promising a Thanksgiving release built around football’s media transformation.
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Atlanta’s quarterback is back after a concussion, while 3–0 Green Bay enters as a heavy favorite with a healthier defense and a more settled identity.
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Philadelphia’s magic number is two after a September stumble; a win over Miami plus a Reds victory over St. Louis would secure October baseball.
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Spain recovered from 2-1 down after Kane's missed penalty, with Baena equalizing and Oyarzabal chipping the 74th-minute winner.
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The European champions meet the world champions before more than 80,000 fans, with Germany awaiting in December’s two-leg final and tactical lessons still available.
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The grilled chicken sandwich and Bacon Ranch Salad return October 13, six years after pandemic-era menu simplification removed them nationwide.
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Ginkgo is forecast to peak around November 27 and maple around December 11; a weekday, early-start strategy can turn crowded highlights into a workable trip.
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Scientists described Pycnogonum coninsulum and Pycnogonum pandion from British Columbia waters, expanding a family previously unknown from the region.
Read the full analysisNadav Kali, 24, and Ofek Moalem, 23, died after the explosive FPV drone crashed during takeoff and detonated when they examined it. The IDF grounded the model pending investigation.
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Zelensky says Trump approved licensed Patriot production, a structural shift for Ukraine’s air defense that cannot solve this winter’s interceptor shortage.
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Zelenskyy says Trump gave a final verbal approval for licensed Patriot production, but no U.S. agreement, framework or timetable is public.
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Washington proposed a technical-level three-way meeting in the Emirates and set a ten-day window for either a result or a clearer path.
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More than a quarter of screened children were acutely malnourished, while UNICEF said 71,000 children had fled their homes in three weeks.
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Kyiv recorded civilian casualties on 16 of September’s first 24 days as UN monitors documented at least 200 killed and 1,234 injured.
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The EU says a reported 90-day U.S. diesel export ban could hurt both sides of the Atlantic as American pump prices reach about $6.52 a gallon.
Read the full analysisTaipei says only Taiwan's people can decide their future, pushing back after Xi put Beijing's reunification claim into the Washington summit record.
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Four missile strikes in five weeks killed five workers, injured 17 and left the Kryvyi Rih complex unable to restart safely, the company says.
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The world's largest derivatives exchange ended a decade-long wait with a muted 0.84% listing pop after an institutionally driven offer for sale.
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Around 50 drones hit the Rostov region overnight, damaging a 100,000-barrel-a-day export refinery — the latest fuel asset knocked offline as Kyiv escalates its energy campaign while energy-truce talks unfold at the United Nations.
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Human Rights Watch says about 6,600 women and 640 children are among more than 30,000 political prisoners held since the 2021 coup — documenting beatings, electric shocks, rape, and pregnant women left to give birth in cells.
Read the full analysisMayor Vitali Klitschko said three bodies were found beside an office building after parked cars burned; Reuters reported four dead. Seven people were wounded.
Read the full analysisA Friday-morning drone hit a 16-storey residential building in the Pechersk district, killed a 14-year-old boy and wounded seven more, and "massive" strikes on Odesa killed another person.
Read the full analysisOvernight drone attacks set a major Russian oil refinery ablaze in the Urals, struck an Almaz-Antey electronics plant and hit targets across Voronezh and Belgorod.
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How BGP routes, packet loss, active probes and traffic-volume drops turned reports of failed calls into a measurable subnational disruption.
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Video shows a struggle and takedown; witnesses describe injuries, while DHS says the man resisted lawful commands. Police are investigating what happened and whether charges are warranted.
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The president called the Hague court “evil” and a “rogue institution.” During UNGA week, only Naoero followed while Europe and Japan rallied to the court's defense.
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A Wall Street Journal exclusive reveals Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are lobbying Washington against any sanctions relief or an end to the naval blockade — a sharp reversal from their summer push for a deal, and a split that could doom next week's hoped-for talks.
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Saudi Arabia said it intercepted six ballistic missiles toward Taif and Yanbu. The Houthis separately claimed attacks on Riyadh and Aramco facilities, but no Riyadh strike, damage or casualties were confirmed.
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Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan are preparing a chiefs-of-staff meeting after Thursday's attacks. Tehran says the Houthis act independently; neither claim settles who controls the next escalation.
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Israel says it killed Hamas commander Mahmoud Abd al-Fattah Awad — accused of helping hold seven Israelis hostage in a Gaza tunnel — in a weekend Gaza City airstrike, the second targeted killing in two days amid a fraying ceasefire.
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Prince Harry warned at the Clinton Global Initiative that AI is "learning how to enter our relationships" — then his own speech was cut short by a teleprompter failure he joked meant "AI got into my speech."
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London says the package can fund up to 900,000 medical consultations, water and waste services, prosthetic care for children and mental-health support—but access, not only money, will determine what reaches people.
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The September 23 deadline has passed. Dubai and Abu Dhabi show no Iran services, Tehran has barred UAE overflights, and Washington is testing whether secondary sanctions can ground Iran’s civilian fleet.
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Israel's prime minister answered a mass delegate walkout with a charge of “moral cowardice,” defended the decision to strike Iran and turned a seven-hour New York visit toward Israel's October 27 election.
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The General Assembly backed continued statehood, U.N. membership and fixed maritime zones even if rising seas erase an island nation’s habitable land.
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Zelenskyy says Kyiv transferred two soldiers captured alive in Kursk to South Korea, opening a legal and intelligence precedent that Seoul has not directly confirmed.
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Treasury yields reached levels last seen in 2007 as Fed officials kept another 2026 rate increase in play and oil near $100 intensified inflation pressure.
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Islamabad says it hit drone launch and storage locations in Khost, Paktia and Kandahar; Kabul disputes the drone account, reports civilian deaths and promises a response.
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Gen. Alexus Grynkewich urged allies to remain calm and confident after Denmark warned of escalating hybrid activity and incidents in Germany and Danish airspace.
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The extortion group claims it stole 2TB to 3TB and exposed agent data after defacing FBIjobs.gov; the FBI confirms an investigation but not the claimed breach or theft.
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Norges Bank raised its policy rate while Sweden and Switzerland held, exposing how the Strait of Hormuz energy shock is producing different inflation choices across Europe.
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Egypt kept its deposit and lending rates at 19% and 20% for a fifth meeting, while Nigeria delivered a 350-basis-point cut that Governor Olayemi Cardoso called a reset, not an easing.
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The roughly two-inch device promises phone-free access to Meta's Muse agent in December, while new Ray-Ban glasses and a spring 2027 VR headset widen the company's hardware bet.
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The renewal protects a high-margin royalty stream estimated at $7.50 per iPhone even as Apple replaces more Qualcomm modem chips with its own C2 and C1X designs.
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Michael Selig says the agency will move through rulemaking after Senate cloture failed, with two proposals at White House review and Bitcoin near $84,500.
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The Guangzhou chipmaker priced 512.6 million shares at 12.01 yuan, with Alibaba Cloud among strategic investors and subscriptions opening September 24.
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At Via Solari 35, Chiuri turned lingerie codes, mirrored space and the Baguette bag into an argument that sensuality begins with a woman's control over what she reveals.
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Permanent-rumple blazers, gripped jackets and oversized collars introduced “something slightly off” into the house's rigorous minimalism.
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The designer closed a six-year turnaround with a provocative Milan spectacle, remains at OTB as Maison Margiela's creative director, and leaves Diesel without a named successor.
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Searchlight's sequel reunites the 2005 ensemble, begins filming in New York this fall and asks Smart to enter a family story shaped by the death of Diane Keaton.
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The deluxe album adds four songs, while a VMAs-premiering video starring Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell extends a tightly staged release cycle.
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Manny Machado's 29th homer and three RBIs moved San Diego to 88-70, one game ahead of the Cubs and Phillies and one victory from clinching.
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A merged 16-day international window brings up to four matches per team, with Jürgen Klopp, Xavi Hernández and Zinédine Zidane beginning new national-team eras.
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Star Meat Delivery recalled beef, pork and goat products shipped nationwide under A&D Foods labels after FSIS found a false EST. 1363 inspection mark.
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Two different olive ridleys nested near Seal Beach and Huntington Beach as a super El Niño warmed Southern California waters, challenging the known range map.
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Red warnings, school closures and fishing restrictions are in force as damaging rain is forecast to spread from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha into Telangana and Chhattisgarh.
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Salam Ahmadyan and Rahman Salehi appeared in court and were remanded in custody until an Old Bailey hearing on October 23.
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A $500 million fiscal 2027 ceiling turns a global protection system toward one preferred group.
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Youlin Chen's wife says the White House assured her Trump will raise the detained seismologist's case when Xi visits Thursday.
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Track the secret U.S.–Iran talks, Trump's threats, Pezeshkian's speech and the next diplomatic moves in New York.
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The order starts at Wednesday midnight. Iraq is discussing a Najaf diversion while airlines and airports across the region weigh access to Iran against U.S. financial penalties.
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Prosecutors are testing whether the exchange knowingly allowed banned Iran-linked trading after its record $4.3 billion settlement and compliance overhaul.
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Patriot missiles, sanctions and a reciprocal energy ceasefire now form one winter bargain: protect Ukraine’s grid, squeeze Russia’s fuel system and test whether Moscow will come to the table.
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Putin’s governing party gained nearly four seats in five. We decode the arithmetic, the restricted field, the wartime message and the choices the majority enables.
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A false AI-assisted intelligence report put armed U.S. personnel on the edge of boarding a Chinese cargo ship. The episode is now the focus of a Senate demand for an inspector-general investigation.
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Wednesday morning's New York meeting will test whether sharper U.S. rhetoric and a newly signed sanctions law can move Moscow toward an energy truce—or only harden a long diplomatic stalemate.
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A federal judge blocked enforcement of Trump’s outlet-wide ban for 14 days, rejecting the government’s national-security rationale on the current record.
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Hours after Trump declared the Gaza war ended, Macron said no humanitarian corridor had reopened and challenged the credibility of a peace plan whose diplomatic endorsement has not yet produced the access he demanded.
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The governments say they will reopen embassies after talks in New York, but Belgium is keeping its support for Congo’s territorial integrity and Rwanda still rejects accusations that it backs M23.
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The city says a $60,000–$100,000-a-month data feed gives sophisticated traders early access to market-moving presidential posts. Trump Media says the case confuses public and nonpublic information.
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Ukraine’s General Staff says a Sept. 21 strike damaged three storage buildings, a jet-powered UAV launch site and five launchers at Tsymbulova; the reported damage is not independently verified.
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Zelensky says Kyiv is open to a reciprocal halt to energy strikes and asked for a winter air-defense package. Trump voiced confidence, but no terms, monitoring system or Russian commitment emerged.
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The warning is based on Ukrainian intelligence and is not independently confirmed; its immediate purpose is clear—more air defenses, sustained sanctions and allied attention at UNGA.
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The bloc’s statement turns a broad peace framework into a public sequence: aid and infrastructure first, then withdrawal, an international force, Palestinian administration and reconstruction.
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The president cast cartels as “the ISIS of the Western Hemisphere” and told coalition leaders the U.S. would act if they could not—without detailing an operational plan.
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UNHCR says more than 130,000 people have fled since September began, with Taiz the epicenter and an underfunded relief effort struggling to keep up.
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The secretary of state did not identify the incidents, but his remarks put Black Sea shipping, American oil interests and fuel prices at the center of ceasefire diplomacy.
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The sentences close one chapter of a national trauma while leaving the larger argument over intelligence failures and alleged masterminds unresolved.
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The warm public reset came with sharp pressure over Russia and the 99-year Diego Garcia lease—issues that test whether a personal rapport can repair a strained alliance.
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The three-hour talks were the first known high-level US–Iran negotiation since July, as Trump and Zelensky also pressed an energy ceasefire in the Ukraine war.
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The DPC found unlawful and unfair processing, transparency failures and excessive retention across three Google location features.
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The removal of Xi Jinping’s military deputy and the PLA’s joint-operations chief leaves only two active figures on a formerly seven-member Central Military Commission.
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Newsom’s order begins preparations months before winter, as NOAA puts the chance of a very strong event above 90% and warns that ocean strength does not guarantee a particular storm.
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Reuters reports that Washington has tied the Sudanese leader’s entry visa to a ceasefire plan, prompting an appeal from Sudan’s U.N. ambassador and concern from the Secretary-General.
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The president defended the U.S.-Israeli campaign, told Putin to “settle” the Ukraine war and challenged the ICC, Cuba and international carbon taxes.
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The agreement gives Washington more operational room in the Arctic, but the political bargain depends on Greenlanders seeing material benefits and real consultation.
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The rally shows how quickly markets reward a lower geopolitical risk premium; it does not show that the underlying risks have disappeared.
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The visit is less about a breakthrough in one speech than about preserving diplomatic options under tightening military and economic pressure.
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The inflow shows demand can scale through regulated products; it does not prove that price support will persist once short-term positioning changes.
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The warning turns an obscure edge-device weakness into an operational deadline: internet-facing equipment must be patched, isolated or replaced before defenders lose visibility.
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The product race is shifting from AI that summarizes alerts to AI that can recommend or take action—raising both defensive upside and control risk.
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The case raises a product-design question with regulatory consequences: whether consent is meaningful when location controls are fragmented across services and defaults.
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The case shows why law firms are high-value targets: they hold concentrated stores of privileged, commercial and personal information while operating across many systems and jurisdictions.
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The season’s most important question is commercial as much as aesthetic: can creative risk generate products people still want to buy at luxury prices?
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The spectacle is designed for both a civic landmark and a global feed, making control of attention the real product.
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The weekend’s lesson is not that every expensive film can win; it is that event status and audience trust can still create extraordinary theatrical value.
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The opening tests whether a streaming-era crime franchise can convert familiarity into paid theatrical urgency.
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The red carpet is a fundraising instrument: royal visibility and star power are being used to support workers across film and television.
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The summit’s value will depend on whether high-level concern produces measurable commitments on skills, safety and public participation.
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The draw shows the thin margins at the top of the league: tactical control mattered, but neither side converted control into separation.
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The clinch rewards six months of run prevention, lineup resilience and roster management; October will test whether those strengths translate in shorter series.
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The milestone matters because Baltimore acquired power for exactly this kind of race; postseason value now depends on the games around it.
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The common word ‘recall’ can hide radically different response needs: allergen exposure is serious for susceptible people, while yellow oleander can poison anyone who consumes it.
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Sri Lanka works best when a wellness trip is built around geography and weather, not a rushed checklist.
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The assurance, described by Mohamed al-Bukhaiti and acknowledged in broad terms by Trump, could separate U.S. shipping from the Saudi front—but it is not a comprehensive Red Sea ceasefire.
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The claimed strike reached one of Russia’s largest refining hubs more than 1,300 kilometres from Ukraine. Its physical and economic effect remained unverified at the reporting cutoff.
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The failure at Philadelphia TRACON exposed an already-cut backup route, triggering ground stops, cancellations and diversions across the Northeast.
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The warning links a specified trigger—any abduction—to a specified consequence affecting roughly one million residents.
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Faster Geran variants now fly higher and arrive with seconds of warning, reducing the reach of Ukraine’s cheapest defenses and changing the economics of the air war.
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Reuters/Ipsos finds a 15-point slide from Trump’s second inauguration, with Republican voters now breaking against him on the cost of living.
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A connectivity issue at Prestwick grounded more than 200 flights—two weeks after a software fault stranded 330,000 passengers. The technical story is now a political crisis.
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Children were among suspected illegal miners who died after raids in Niger State. Survivors allege suffocation; officials say the medical cause remains undetermined.
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The political opposites discussed Sunnyside Yard housing, affordability and Haitian TPS. Trump committed no federal money, and neither side announced an immigration agreement.
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The consent decree promises at least 156 theatrical films over five years, new domestic production spending and oversight for CNN and CBS News. The harder test begins after closing.
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Russian officials reported dozens of interceptions and civilian damage. The refinery-fire footage remains unverified, while Washington presses Kyiv over diesel prices and a possible reciprocal energy truce.
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Kyiv says it will halt strikes on Russian energy sites if Moscow stops targeting Ukraine’s energy sector, critical infrastructure and food exports.
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Police are investigating a suspected overdose at a Santa Monica rehabilitation facility, but the medical examiner has deferred the official cause and manner. What is known, and why the case reaches beyond celebrity news.
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The administration’s 24/7 channel arrived hours after CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued over their exclusion and five networks suspended the television pool feed. The dispute now reaches beyond credentials to who controls the public record.
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Ukrainian officials say Russia combined 212 drones with cruise, ballistic and Oniks missiles, striking businesses and critical infrastructure across several regions as winter approaches.
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Scott Bessent says companies that provide fuel, landing support or ticketing beginning September 23 risk losing access to the dollar system. It is a secondary-sanctions threat, not a direct global grounding order.
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The seven governments condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and civilian shipping, but announced no new sanctions or military action.
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Sustained winds of 130 km/h and gusts near 194 km/h battered the Pacific coast on Monday, forcing nearly two million evacuation orders, killing at least two people, and shutting down Tokyo's airports and railways during the Silver Week holiday. The numbers tell a story about climate, demography, and the limits of preparedness.
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One RAF Voyager will support Saudi defensive sorties against drones and missiles. The limited mission gives Riyadh more endurance while pulling Britain closer to a volatile regional campaign.
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Regional officials reported at least five deaths across Ukraine after the weekend’s 1,000-plus-drone barrage on Russia. Competing interception claims and an airspace alert in Moldova show the widening risk.
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Months after Kering took a minority stake, the Shanghai label has handed its creative future to the former Gucci designer — a bet that a European name can turn Chinese quiet luxury into a global house.
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The 10-piece Great Pumpkin collection launched September 15 — the $39.95 glass cold cup sold out in hours and is already reselling for $200. Here's what dropped, why it works, and what's actually worth your money.
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The Raiders are 3-0, the Cowboys and Browns survived scares, and the Steelers got flattened in Foxborough. Sorting the real contenders from the September mirage.
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Harry and Meghan move back to Britain at the end of the month — as the King quietly wishes his son happy birthday and William stays silent. What the return really means for the monarchy.
Read the full storyThousands marched on Buenos Aires on September 19 to denounce President Javier Milei's spending cuts, days after his government tabled a 2027 budget promising 4% growth and 18% inflation.
Read the full storySeventeen days before Brazilians vote, President Lula ordered a 15% rise in Bolsa Família payments and promised free obesity drugs through the public health system — a move his rival calls an illegal bid to buy the election.
Read the full storyItaly's prime minister told her party's youth festival she will bring a measure to Cabinet banning face coverings in schools and setting a legal maximum of foreign pupils per class — a move with an eye on next year's general election.
Read the full storyWith the 46th Chess Olympiad putting Samarkand on screens worldwide this September, here is the practical guide to Central Asia's most dazzling Silk Road city — hours, tickets, trains, etiquette and how long to stay.
Read the full storyAnnounced on Truth Social, the proposed body would watch over AI without slowing it down — but no one knows yet what it would actually be.
Read the full storyThe world's first scientific body on AI says a summer incident proved safeguards aren't keeping pace — and calls for layered defenses like aviation's.
Read the full storyWith the country's largest-ever Ebola outbreak still spreading, 20,000 health workers will test whether an existing vaccine can stop a virus it wasn't designed for.
Read the full storyEleven MoUs and a ₹1 lakh crore investment pipeline — plus a blunt warning from the minister that rivals may come for India's fabs.
Read the full storySaudi air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile aimed at the capital on Saturday, the first such attempt in the current escalation — as Washington warns Americans of rapid regional escalation.
Read the full storyTwo short-range ballistic missiles launched from Wonsan on Sunday mark Pyongyang's second round of tests in a week, days after it accused US-led drills of driving up tensions.
Read the full storyA China Coast Guard cutter rammed a Philippine fisheries vessel on a fuel mission for fishermen off Palawan on Friday, damaging its railings and deck — the latest in a year of escalating confrontations.
Read the full storyTreasury Secretary Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng held day-long talks in New York on trade, rare earths and AI guardrails — four days before Xi's first White House visit in 11 years.
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The action marks an escalation from interdiction toward direct military force, raising fresh questions about evidence, legal authority and safeguards at sea.
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The decree allows temporary state control of critical assets during wartime emergencies, extending Moscow’s economic-security reach after repeated strikes on energy sites.
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The currency’s slide is squeezing household purchasing power and signaling deepening stress as oil sanctions and regional tensions restrict Iran’s access to hard currency.
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The proposed package would combine dress restrictions, classroom-composition limits and language requirements in a consequential test of integration policy.
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The vote would not by itself make Alberta independent, but it could trigger Canada’s most serious unity and constitutional confrontation in decades.
Read the full reportReuters sources estimate 120–130 Malian soldiers were killed. The army confirms losses but has published no total; JNIM’s higher claims remain unverified.
Read the full reportThe army confirms a withdrawal after the RSF claimed full control. The change turns a siege into a civilian-protection emergency and raises the risk of Sudan’s de facto partition.
Read the full reportFive Yemeni military sources say Houthi forces are pushing toward the Kahboub Mountains to protect coastal positions and create new pressure points in Taiz and Lahij.
Read the full reportSources put Dioura’s military deaths near 120–130. JNIM claims 150; the army confirms losses without a number. The strategic damage extends beyond one camp.
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Pakistan says four drones were intercepted near Torkham and four near Kohat; Kabul denies launching any attack. An overnight artillery exchange in Kurram raises the stakes.
Read the full analysisPakistan says 28 militants were killed; Taliban officials report three civilian deaths and four wounded. The claims remain independently unverified.
Read the full reportA failed control circuit and severed backup fiber line disrupted the region as U.N. delegations arrived in New York.
Read the full storyA thousand-plus-drone operation carried the war to Russia’s capital and refinery system.
Read the full storyAn entity-wide designation could threaten the court’s basic operations.
Read the full storySanctions, refinery strikes and security guarantees narrow the negotiation.
Read the full storyThe lawyer and DHS tell conflicting stories; independent evidence must decide.
Read the full storyMemory of dictatorship converged with anger over a flood-control scandal.
Read the full storyMonday’s rally does not mean the energy-and-rates shock has passed.
Read the full storyA leveraged market fell from about $81,000 to the mid-$60,000s.
Read the full storyThe Belgian company wants sensitive code to stay inside customer infrastructure.
Read the full storyThe $2 million incident repeats DeFi’s most avoidable design failure.
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Read the full storyThe return is a symbolic victory for London and a test for McGirr.
Read the full storyMilan’s new creative directors now have to build durable house languages.
Read the full storyA $125 million original satire tests star power in the franchise era.
Read the full storyA longstanding patronage offers continuity amid questions about public roles.
Read the full storyHorror led as Spider-Man and The Odyssey crossed historic thresholds.
Read the full storyA derby VAR fight, Arsenal’s defeat and United’s slide raised deeper questions.
Read the full storyThe first center fielder to reach the milestone has Chicago near October.
Read the full storyHidden wheat gluten in certified mixes exposes an allergen-label trust failure.
Read the full storyThe 2027 route changes safari-and-beach planning; our guide covers the details.
Read the full guideMore than 500 elephant passages turn a negotiated route into early proof.
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About 264,000 delivery workers are covered by nearly $115 million in relief, plus a $16.7 million civil fine.
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Republicans framed a bipartisan commission as a route through the debt impasse while critics warned benefits could face cuts.
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A New York state judge imposed the term after a retrial conviction for the sexual assault of Miriam Haley.
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José Guadalupe Fuentes Ochoa built a 32-year career across Arena México, the UWA and Japan, then turned lessons from the road into a beloved rice stand in Doctores.
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A practical 2026 plan for pricing, preparation, marketing, offer quality and the tradeoffs behind a shorter sale timeline.
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How to set a real housing budget, compare financing, inspect property condition and negotiate an offer you can sustain.
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Why comparable sales, micro-location, condition, lot utility and buyer demand matter more than a single automated estimate.
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A line-by-line look at negotiable compensation, escrow, title, repairs, credits, taxes and net proceeds.
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Our featured pick and a neutral framework for comparing local knowledge, negotiation, communication and presentation.
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War-risk premiums for Saudi-linked tankers calling at Yanbu have tripled to about 3% of vessel value, eroding the economic logic of Riyadh’s route around Hormuz.
Read the full analysisThe prime minister is courting Socialist votes for the most stringent budget in years as debt nears 120% of GDP and bond markets demand a credible path.
Read the full analysisAn unauthenticated 9.8-rated flaw gives attackers a route into source code, signing credentials and deployment pipelines; fixes have been available since July.
Read the full analysisChiuri’s first ready-to-wear collection for Fendi revisits the house where she began, turning slips, lace and modular layers into an argument about women’s agency.
Read the full analysisAtlanta’s quarterback is back after a concussion, while 3–0 Green Bay enters as a heavy favorite with a healthier defense and a more settled identity.
Read the full analysisScientists described Pycnogonum coninsulum and Pycnogonum pandion from British Columbia waters, expanding a family previously unknown from the region.
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Xi’s first Washington visit in 11 years produced a delayed tariff deadline, pandas, student exchanges and a new AI dialogue—without settling the structural dispute.
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The three-day stock decline deepened while oil and Federal Reserve guidance reinforced the higher-for-longer case.
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Islamabad and Kabul continue to present conflicting accounts of targets, casualties and who initiated the latest round.
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Muse Charm is due in December, but price, final internals, privacy behavior and mass-production readiness remain open.
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The alliance is sharing more with law enforcement and industry as it weighs attribution, deterrence and escalation in the gray zone.
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Two different olive ridleys came ashore within days, creating a first recorded test of whether unusually warm water is shifting behavior.
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Japan’s prime minister called the China discussion “timely” after a 35-minute UNGA meeting, with Taiwan, rare earths and alliance credibility at stake before Thursday’s White House summit.
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A chatbot wrongly identified cargo as nuclear-weapons components. Senators Mark Warner, Jack Reed and Chris Coons are demanding an investigation into the military’s AI-enabled intelligence workflow.
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Reuters/Ipsos finds only 17% approve of Trump’s handling of living costs, while Republicans disapproving on that issue now outnumber those approving, 51% to 44%.
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A connectivity fault at Prestwick disrupted northern UK airspace two weeks after a separate software failure. Ryanair wants chief executive Martin Rolfe to resign.
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The operation marks an escalation from interdiction toward direct military force and puts the evidence, legal authority and civilian safeguards under scrutiny.
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A new decree allows temporary state control of critical assets during wartime emergencies, deepening the state’s role in Russia’s energy and logistics systems.
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The currency slide is squeezing household purchasing power and signaling deepening economic stress as oil restrictions and regional tensions limit hard-currency access.
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The package links face-covering restrictions, classroom-composition limits and compulsory language support in a politically charged integration debate.
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The vote cannot itself create independence, but it could trigger the most consequential Canadian unity and constitutional confrontation in decades.
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Russia’s overnight barrage included 212 drones, four cruise missiles and an unspecified number of Oniks and ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s air force said. Industrial sites were hit across Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.
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Nearly two million people were affected as sustained winds reached 130 km/h and gusts 194 km/h. At least two people were reported dead and four missing as flooding and landslide warnings spread across eastern Japan.
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Islamabad says 28 militants were killed at three TTP-linked sites in Kunar and Paktika. Taliban officials say the Kunar strike killed three civilians and wounded four. The competing target and casualty claims have not been independently verified.
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Ukraine sent more than 1,000 drones across Russia, with hundreds aimed at Moscow, in what the capital’s mayor called its largest such attack. Timed to the final day of Russia’s first wartime Duma election, the operation struck at refinery infrastructure and the Kremlin’s promise of distance from the war.
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Trump and Zelensky are due to meet September 22 on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Sanctions, Ukraine’s refinery campaign and security guarantees will test whether diplomatic momentum can produce a concrete sequence.
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Protesters marked 54 years since Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s martial-law declaration as Malacañang went into lockdown. The marches tied the memory of dictatorship to present anger over corruption and the flood-control scandal.
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The administration is preparing an institution-wide designation rather than another round aimed only at individual judges. Such a move could reach the court’s banking, payroll, evidence systems and outside suppliers before a single case is formally halted.
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Oil’s pullback lifted equities, but diesel at a reported record $6.51 a gallon and a hawkish Federal Reserve keep the relief fragile. Thursday’s Trump–Xi call adds rare-earths, trade and geopolitical leverage to the week’s risk calendar.
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An ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan man during a foot pursuit in North Austin. His lawyer and DHS offer conflicting accounts of his immigration status, making independent evidence and the federal investigation central to accountability.
Read the full analysisA sharper look at how we move, dress, eat, build and decide — with curiosity instead of noise.
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Trade the city checklist for a smaller radius — and discover how much more a place reveals when you stop racing through it.
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A useful wardrobe begins with attention: what fits, what works, what lasts and what deserves a second life.

Start with one ingredient that looks alive, then build contrast around it. Dinner gets simpler — and better.

The best tools don’t demand attention. They reduce friction, make their limits visible and leave the final judgment to people.
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Frameworks for reading policy and the economy without losing the human stakes.
Follow the authority, the money and the timeline. A proposal becomes clearer when you ask who can act, who pays and who measures the result.
Read the full frameworkHeadline growth, prices and employment matter — but averages can hide differences between households, regions and generations.
Read the full decoderFixed snapshot: Friday, September 25, 2026. These figures do not update at page open.

Evercore is advising on Project Gamma, a possible stand-alone gas division that could bring in outside investors or prepare the ground for a future listing.
Read the full analysisEquities gained modestly, but a roughly 22-basis-point weekly rise in the benchmark yield kept financing pressure elevated.
WTI slipped 0.7% to $94.00 and Brent lost 0.1% to $106.50 as traders balanced supply risk and diplomacy.
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Two proposals are at White House review after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate.
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Comparable dated readings from September 24, 2026. Contract and spot conventions differ, so each instrument is labeled.
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Original reporting and analysis on television, music and the October film calendar, based on verified source material through September 17, 2026.

A judge granted temporary protection after the estate accused former security chief Bryan Seaver of a campaign of threats. The claims await a full hearing October 7.
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The 23-year-old faces drug, eluding and aggravated-assault charges after an early-morning encounter near a UAB campus fountain. The charges remain allegations.
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“Patient Zero,” “Cleveland!,” “Pink Clouding” and “Babylon” extend the record-breaking album era.
Read the full analysisAwards night does not end with the telecast. Our original report looks at what the post-Emmys circuit reveals about ensemble success, campaign work and the people behind the camera.
Read the original culture reportFalco’s return to broadcast drama is more than a casting notice. Our analysis examines the premise, her executive-producer role and why the legal genre keeps returning.
Read the original television analysisThe September 19–20 lineup crosses generations and genres. Our full guide explains the programming logic and how to plan a weekend around the bill.
Read the original festival guide“Digger,” “The Social Reckoning” and “Street Fighter” offer three different bets on theatrical attention. Our preview explains what makes each release distinct.
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A New York state judge imposed the sentence for Weinstein’s 2006 sexual assault of Miriam Haley after a retrial conviction.
Read the full analysisGuides to what arrives September 18, how the Pro models differ, and where Apple’s newest phones stand against Samsung and Google.

Prices, dates and the buying questions for iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch and AirPods 5.
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Apple’s first foldable is official. Here is what $1,999 buys — and why October 23 matters.
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Two $1,300 flagships, two very different ideas about cameras, control and ecosystems.
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Apple’s pro camera controls meet Google’s AI-first photography and seven-year support promise.
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Pre-order delivery windows slipped before September 18, while store-level stock and launch queues remained unconfirmed in the September 17 snapshot.
Read the verified availability reportDedicated house reports lead the week’s strongest fashion signals, joined by New York runways, red-carpet craft and fall pieces worth considering.

Surf culture, relaxed tailoring and Flight Mode show how the house is turning travel into a full wardrobe.
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“Primavera” put a first runway collection and selected show-day sales into the same high-pressure test.
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At the Grand Palais, tweed loosened up and the house’s familiar codes stopped feeling ceremonial.
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Womenswear, menswear and couture now answer to one author—and fall 2026 shows what that changes.
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Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons make fragments, layers and awkward proportions feel deliberately alive.
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A historic menswear appointment, a January 2027 debut window and the difficult task of evolving 37 years of continuity.
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Ballooning capes, feathers and atelier craft make the new era visible without pretending the house has no past.
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A new designer, a new owner and an Atelier relaunch put unusual pressure on the house’s next chapter.
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Color, movement and wit replaced the safe spring formula at the SS27 shows.
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Zendaya, Nicole Kidman and Colman Domingo showed how detail can outlast spectacle.
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Argyle and roll-neck searches are climbing. Here is the grown-up way to use the look.
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Plaid, personality skirts, turquoise, trenches and relaxed tailoring—edited for real wardrobes.
Read the buying guideSourced long reads covering King Charles III alongside royal news and analysis from Britain, Norway, Saudi Arabia and Thailand.

From his 1948 birth and education to accession in 2022, the essential timeline behind Britain’s monarch.
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Head of State, Royal Assent, ministerial advice and public service — the constitutional role in plain language.
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What happened at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023 — and what the crowns, orb and sceptres represented.
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How an early speech on pollution grew into a long record of convening, campaigning and sustainable-market initiatives.
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A careful timeline of the 2024 cancer disclosure, his return to public-facing work and the details the Palace has not released.
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Harry and Meghan are back in Britain as private citizens, with public work and palace lines kept separate.
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A state funeral closed a 35-year reign as King Haakon VIII took the constitutional oath.
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What is confirmed—and still unverified—about Saudi Arabia’s response to renewed Houthi attacks.
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The first Thai royal state visit to Vietnam marked 50 years of diplomatic ties.
Read the state-visit reportWhere value still exists — and how to compare flights, hotels and packages before prices move.
Read the full guideA practical shoulder-season guide to Barcelona, Seville and San Sebastián, with ways to spend less.
Read the full guideTwo low-profile classics compared on shape, comfort, versatility and value.
Read the comparisonA fall styling playbook that moves beyond the country-club uniform.
See all 12 outfitsNew and seasonal products, plus useful ideas for turning them into meals.
Read the full listA 15-minute method, balanced sauce and flexible variations for busy nights.
Get the recipeApple’s first foldable is official, with an October 23 release and a $1,999 starting price.
Read the full analysisA clear comparison of security, usability, platform support and cost.
Read the rankingHow cost-of-living concerns connect to Congress — and what voters should verify.
Read the voter guideFact-checked after the September 16 meeting: the 12–0 vote, new projections and what changes for borrowers and savers.
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Dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour for saying ‘Free Palestine’ on stage, Macklemore now headlines his own tour — every dollar going to Palestinian causes.
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India Pakistan Asian Games cricket semifinal: defending champions India and arch-rivals Pakistan both advanced to the last four of the Asian Games 2026 men's cricket tournament without facing a single ball, after…
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For the first time in nearly three decades, Orangemen were cleared to march down Portadown's most contested street. Thousands of protesters — led by Northern Ireland's own first minister — made sure the parade never…
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Italian officials say Giorgia Meloni and Andrej Babis plan to agree a joint package in Rome and carry it to the October 15–16 European Council summit.
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A formal announcement has not been made, but the president’s latest answer sharpened a long-running argument over whether rotational forces in Poland should become an enduring American commitment.
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Merz Kyiv visit October 2026
The unannounced visit joins fresh German aid and joint weapons production to the immediate reality of Russia's fourth straight day of bridge strikes.
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Trump Hormuz blockade October 2026
CENTCOM says Monday's operation targets Iranian ports while preserving transit through Hormuz to non-Iranian destinations.
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Ethiopian forces seize Mekelle
The TPLF acknowledged its withdrawal and said its regional government would move from the capital after a rapid federal counterattack.
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India Ukraine ceasefire proposal
India's plan joins energy security to Black Sea shipping and food supply. Kyiv likes the scope, but wants every part linked—and Moscow has yet to consent.
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North Korea missile test October 2026
The launch was real; the claimed range class is unconfirmed. Here is what 700 kilometers, a low flight and Pyongyang's skip-glide claim do—and do not—show.
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Ukraine refinery strikes
Zelenskyy’s answer to an alleged Russian infrastructure doctrine puts refinery warfare, winter air defense and diplomacy on the same collision course.
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Sanaa airstrikes October 2026
AFP correspondents heard at least five blasts across the Yemeni capital on Saturday as warplanes struck Houthi military sites — the sharpest Saudi–Houthi escalation in years, with a hospital damaged and tens of thousands newly displaced.
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Yemen Taiz offensive Bab al-Mandeb
Taiz is seeing its widest escalation in three weeks as Saudi-backed forces prepare a coastal push and Washington stays out of direct air combat.
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Aramco Riyadh fire
A witness saw fire and smoke near an Aramco facility. The cause and responsibility remain unconfirmed as Saudi–Houthi hostilities escalate.
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Ali al-Amoudi Gaza strike
Israeli media say Hamas's de facto Gaza chief was the target. Five Palestinians were killed, while his fate remains unknown.
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Lukoil Ukraine oil deal
A global oil portfolio valued near $20 billion is now part of the diplomatic conversation around the Ukraine war.
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Russia strikes Odesa port ship
One crew member was killed and three were injured when a merchant ship was hit inside an Odesa-region port. The cargo and Russia's “dual-use” claim remain unverified.
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Russia warns diplomats leave Kyiv
Russia's Foreign Ministry urged foreign diplomats and citizens to leave Kyiv as Moscow pledged more massive strikes — with the capital's bridge attacks entering a third day.
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Kyiv Northern Bridge strike
A strike after 6:30 a.m. damaged the roadway and trolleybus contact network, blocking left-to-right-bank traffic as emergency crews responded.
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Kharkiv guided bomb strike
Two were reported killed and about 32 wounded in Kharkiv as the toll evolved; a separate Shahed attack killed one at a civilian facility in Sumy.
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The SAF says the town links North and West Kordofan and that taking it advances the campaign to cut RSF supply lines. The claim remains unverified.
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A cryptic answer moved the base debate from “could happen” to “might have” been decided, with consequences for NATO deterrence and Ukraine diplomacy.
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DOJ unsealed a Hamas terror finance indictment as France arrested three associates and Treasury issued sanctions — over $1.7M raised as fake Gaza aid. Full analysis.
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U.S. funding ended in July and the bridge money is gone. Almost half a million Sudanese just lost the clinics, clean water and food programs keeping them alive.
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Three years after Israeli bombs levelled the Al-Taj 3 building, Gaza buried 105 recovered victims together — the fifth-largest recovery operation of the war.
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Kyiv says September cost Russia 46,230 troops — the heaviest month of 2026, and the war's worst single day. The attrition math behind the record, and what it means for the winter ahead.
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Readiness rises on the Gaza border before the third anniversary, exposing the distance between military attrition and a durable political end state.
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Medics and UNICEF reported ten dead and 60 injured across two strikes as drone attacks on El Obeid's civilian sites intensify.
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Putin tied diesel exports to sanctions relief at Valdai, saying Moscow won't supply fuel until sanctions lift — claiming Ukrainian strikes cost 1% of GDP.
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Germany's Merz warned Russian hybrid attacks will escalate across Europe, with NATO chief Rutte urging allies to prepare for a 'dark winter' of sabotage.
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Putin rejected a long-range-strikes ceasefire at Valdai, dismissing a Kyiv-Washington plan as Ukrainian refinery raids and Russian grid attacks continued.
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Putin warned at Valdai that any attack on Kaliningrad would unleash 'all weapons,' invoking Russia's nuclear doctrine and its 'isolation of territory' clause.
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Washington warns the two groups' growing operational relationship could turn a one-shore shipping threat into pressure from both Yemen and Somalia.
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The displacement count is rising faster than aid and public health systems can follow, turning battlefield movement into a regional health emergency.
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The non-paper turns a dispute over exercises, transit and fictional war scenarios into a direct test of nuclear signaling and crisis control.
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Russia Sumy school glide bomb strike
The survival of everyone inside the school turned a direct hit into a case study in what school shelters can prevent — and what they cannot.
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Seven alleged killing incidents, torture in military bases and two deadly drone strikes raise new questions about command responsibility and accountability in Mali.
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Russian strikes hit Kyivstar's Kyiv headquarters and data centres on Sunday, part of a week-long campaign that has knocked some 100,000 households offline. Two children and an adult were wounded, Zelenskyy said.
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A strike on shops at the Mawiya junction market in Taiz killed 7 and wounded 40. The Houthi-run health ministry blames Saudi aircraft; Yemen's government says it hit a Houthi camp. Attribution is contested.
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Tehran warns Washington would suffer greater damage from any new strike, as the seven-month US–Iran war enters what its army chief calls a “critical and decisive stage.”
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for a Gaza-style war in the West Bank, dismantling the Palestinian Authority, and annexation up to Gaza's Yellow Line and Lebanon's Litani River — as Israel sealed the West Bank through Oct. 3 for Sukkot.
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Britain hit 31 Russian targets with new sanctions: shadow-fleet tankers, alleged torturers and disinformation networks — London's toughest package of the year.
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An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City apartment building killed at least five Palestinians early Saturday, according to Gaza health and civil defence officials cited by Reuters. The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
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At Connect 2026, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Meta's thinnest VR device ever, a privacy-friendly answer to smart-glass backlash, and a handheld AI companion — while quietly declaring the metaverse era over.
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Reuters says American and Iranian negotiators are examining a staged exchange in which Tehran restores navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and Washington lifts its economic blockade. Iran-linked voices deny talks…
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Mediators carried messages among Abbas Araghchi, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on the UN General Assembly sidelines, reopening diplomacy after July’s failed ceasefire while exposing a gulf over war, sanctions and…
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Norges Bank raised its policy rate while Sweden and Switzerland held, exposing how the Strait of Hormuz energy shock is producing different inflation choices across Europe.
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The roughly two-inch device promises phone-free access to Meta's Muse agent in December, while new Ray-Ban glasses and a spring 2027 VR headset widen the company's hardware bet.
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The renewal protects a high-margin royalty stream estimated at $7.50 per iPhone even as Apple replaces more Qualcomm modem chips with its own C2 and C1X designs.
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Michael Selig says the agency will move through rulemaking after Senate cloture failed, with two proposals at White House review and Bitcoin near $84,500.
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The Guangzhou chipmaker priced 512.6 million shares at 12.01 yuan, with Alibaba Cloud among strategic investors and subscriptions opening September 24.
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Permanent-rumple blazers, gripped jackets and oversized collars introduced 'something slightly off' into the house's rigorous minimalism.
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Searchlight's sequel reunites the 2005 ensemble, begins filming in New York this fall and asks Smart to enter a family story shaped by the death of Diane Keaton.
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Manny Machado's 29th homer and three RBIs moved San Diego to 88-70, one game ahead of the Cubs and Phillies and one victory from clinching.
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A merged 16-day international window brings up to four matches per team, with Jürgen Klopp, Xavi Hernández and Zinédine Zidane beginning new national-team eras.
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Two different olive ridleys nested near Seal Beach and Huntington Beach as a super El Niño warmed Southern California waters, challenging the known range map.
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Brussels warned Washington that Donald Trump's proposed diesel export ban would be a 'very bad idea,' as EU diesel imports from the US face disruption.
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Taiwan denounced Xi Jinping's 'reunification' pitch to Donald Trump as a distortion of the facts, pushing back hard as the US-China summit approaches.
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The world's largest derivatives exchange ended a decade-long wait with a muted 0.84% listing pop — a deliberately full-priced debut that says more about who controls Indian markets than about investor appetite.
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Kyiv says it needs another $27 billion in 2026 and $52 billion-plus in 2027 aid — an immediate procurement crunch, not one single multiyear price tag.
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Six million object detections from Ukrainian combat data will go to selected UK firms to build AI drone swarms that keep working when comms and GPS fail.
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More than 400 people a day crossed into eastern Chad during the previous week—20 times the recent-month rate—as violence spread across Darfur, Kordofan and Blue Nile and the regional response remained only 18% funded.
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In a blunt interview on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, America's Africa envoy said each side in Sudan's war believes it can still win outright — the frankest explanation yet of why every peace initiative…
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From 2-1 down to 3-2 up — the world champions needed just 14 second-half minutes to turn Wembley into their playground again.
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Lamine Yamal's 104-second opener, Harry Kane's penalty miss and two decisive Spanish substitutes turned a gripping Group A3 opener into another demonstration of the world champions' resilience.
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A 56-year-old housing authority worker was killed by a falling tree in Brooklyn as states of emergency swept New York and New Jersey, nearly 100,000 customers lost power, and Atlantic City saw its highest water since…
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Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali — pioneering physician, Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister's wife, and the quiet constant through the most turbulent decades of the nation's modern history — died on Monday,…
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A mountainside collapsed into the Kali Gandaki in Mustang — a flash flood hit Kagbeni overnight. Nepal's worst fears for its Himalayan valleys are back.
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Putin put Russia's METRO Cash & Carry under 'temporary administration' — the latest Western-linked asset seized in Moscow's wartime nationalization drive.
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A hacking crew got Chinese AI models to spit out credit card numbers — the jailbreak works on DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen and MiniMax alike. Nobody is patching it yet.
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Two reports describe conditional economic relief for nuclear steps; the president says he offered nothing. The contradiction is now part of the negotiation.
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Trump's $500 Obamacare refund checks are mailing to 950,000 people in 30 states. See who qualifies, which states get them, and exactly when yours arrives.
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Lara Trump put an electoral price on the Iran war — warning it could cost Republicans the midterms — as the president conceded that outcome is ‘possible.’
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A pro-government militia says it controls Alula Aba Nega Airport and is “clearing” Tigray's capital. Neither Reuters nor AFP could verify the claim — but the federal counter-offensive is closing on Mekelle from three…
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Ethiopian forces close in Mekelle after a rapid federal advance, as shuttered businesses, suspected drone attacks and an Ethiopia–Eritrea diplomatic break turn renewed civil conflict into a regional danger.
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The quarter contained a margin improvement and real performance-product gains. Investors looked past both because the sales reset is getting deeper, China is deteriorating and the next round of cost cuts reaches jobs.
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The Ella Langley Mariah Carey record change ends an extraordinary holiday-era reign: “Choosin’ Texas” has spent 23 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, one more than “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Yet Carey’s…
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Zelenskyy told the General Assembly that AI could decide battlefield outcomes as early as next year, tying the warning to peace demands and pressure on Russia.
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NATO scrambled jets over Poland and Romania as Russia launched a jet-drone barrage at Ukraine — the alliance's sharpest air alert in months.
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OpenAI is giving Ukraine free 'Daybreak' AI cyber defenses to shield hospitals and power grids from Russian hackers — a first-of-its-kind wartime deployment.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent bypassed controls on a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal, accessed public and non-public files and wrote files into the system. Officials say they have…
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Eleven jurors were ready to clear the Massachusetts mother of criminal responsibility in the deaths of her three children. One was not. Now the defense is asking a judge to examine that lone holdout's phone records,…
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UN reports document a 123% surge in forced and early marriage across Gaza in 2026, as testimony from 230 displaced women exposes collapsed protections.
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Zelenskyy says Raytheon licensing talks are ‘producing results,’ putting a domestic Patriot line in reach by 2028 — though not in time for winter fighting.
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A Russian military helicopter crossed into Polish airspace from Kaliningrad on Wednesday, lingering 42 seconds before turning back as Polish jets scrambled.
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Tigray’s regional government has declared that it is in a “defensive war” with Ethiopia’s federal army after regional forces seized airports and fighting spread into Afar. The renewed conflict shatters the Pretoria…
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Xi Jinping is expected to arrive without the Chinese business delegation Beijing had explored, while America’s most powerful technology executives prepare for the White House state dinner. The empty chairs are a…
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A unanimous Jackson County grand jury found insufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the 18-year-old’s July 4 disappearance and death near Horn Island. The criminal case is closed for now, but two pathologists…
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Nigeria faces the heaviest toll as the Climate Impact Lab calls the hottest El Niño on record a “postcard from the future” — with 44% more extreme heat days coming.
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Apple fitness band release date unclear: the screenless tracker is an internal investigation, with a 2028-or-later horizon for the Apple 2028 health wearable if it ships at all.
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At its Maui summit this week, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Android flagships, the Sound Elite Gen 2 for a new generation of AI wearables, and repositioned the X2 Elite as the chip of the “agentic PC”…
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Google is sending a Trillium tensor processing unit into orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission, a narrow engineering experiment that could determine whether the company's audacious idea of solar-powered AI…
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The U.N. General Assembly unanimously approved its first declaration devoted to sea level rise, backing continued statehood, sovereignty, U.N. membership and stable maritime zones for island nations even if rising…
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France is sending troops to Saudi Arabia's Yanbu: Macron announced soldiers, radar and defensive systems to protect the Red Sea oil outlet from Houthi attacks.
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A strengthening tropical system could pass perilously close to the Big Island this weekend as a major hurricane — with the National Hurricane Center warning of ‘life-threatening, catastrophic flooding’.
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USS Abraham Lincoln suicide attempts: eight cases across the carrier strike group on a 300-plus-day deployment put Navy mental-health care under scrutiny.
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A strengthening coastal low damaged NC 12 and pushed dangerous surf into the Outer Banks. Its exact track will determine how much flooding, wind and erosion reach the Northeast.
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The Trump Xi state dinner gave Xi Jinping the symbols of a co-equal power, with warm words but just one modest, time-limited deal — pageantry over substance.
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A NetBlocks alert turned reports of failed calls in Tigray into a measurable network event. Here is how routing tables, traffic patterns and active probes reveal a blackout—and why none of them alone can identify who…
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NetBlocks detected a subnational disruption in northern Ethiopia as the deepest military escalation since the Pretoria peace deal makes communication itself a measure of civilian risk.
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ArcelorMittal booked a $1 billion charge after missile strikes crippled its Kryvyi Rih steel plant — the war's biggest single corporate casualty yet.
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Argentina's president attacked the institution from its own rostrum, then made the Malvinas claim an economic confrontation over offshore oil rather than a ritual diplomatic demand.
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At a preliminary hearing Friday, a Jackson detective testified the 29-year-old mother's hanging was staged after a drug-dispute killing — a revelation that recasts a case that drew national attention as an echo of…
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Popemobile rides, a vespers at a reborn Notre-Dame, a million expected along the Champs-Élysées — and a Church in France that is suddenly growing again.
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Home, Code and the newly renamed Autopilot consolidate Microsoft's scattered assistants while moving advanced work onto usage credits—the company's biggest Copilot monetization test yet.
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Anthropic-Akamai deal details: seven years, up to $20 billion with expansion, a 5% equity warrant — one of AI’s largest cloud commitments.
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Days after 14 servicemen drowned in a botched Caspian Sea drill — and with five officers already under arrest — Kazakhstan's president has sacked his defence minister and installed a special-forces commander in his…
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A fatal disembarkation in rough weather has become a test of command responsibility, safety culture and public trust in Kazakhstan’s small but strategically important Caspian fleet.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy says President Donald Trump verbally approved letting Ukraine build Patriot missiles under license. Trump declined to confirm the claim.
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A three-day state visit produced strategic theater and a trade-truce extension — but no major joint agreement, as both capitals chose optics over substance.
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Nominations closed overnight for the most consequential WHO leadership vote in a generation — with the agency broke, bleeding staff, and caught between China, the Gulf states, and Europe.
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José Guadalupe Fuentes Ochoa made the contradiction in his ring name into a career: “Baby Face” sounded heroic, but El Cañonero de Colima became one of Mexican wrestling's bloodiest, most durable rudos before…
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From a seven-year-old carried 170 miles for care to maternity wards converted into emergency rooms, Yemen's renewed fighting is pushing a weakened health system beyond its limits.
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In his first speech since Houthi forces swept government troops from the western Red Sea coast, the head of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council called Yemenis to arms and promised immediate pardons for fighters…
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India's defence minister said New Delhi remains prepared for “any kind of strike” against terrorism while Pakistan continues what he called a state policy of terrorism, tightening the link between dialogue and…
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Pakistan's prime minister used the UN rostrum to connect river flows, Kashmir and the 2025 India-Pakistan clash. The warning sharpened Islamabad's diplomatic message, while India's reply exposed how little common…
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Regional outlets say six bombs struck an NUG-linked command headquarters near the Bago–Mon border, killing four to five people and severely wounding two military defectors.
Read full storyPresident Donald Trump refused Tehran's offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, calling it unacceptable as the U.S.-Iran standoff deepens.
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A two-kilometre popemobile ride down the Champs-Élysées, two emergency overflow sites, and a crowd more than triple the size of Benedict XVI's 2008 Mass — Saturday in Paris was the day France's Catholic revival…
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Israel’s GovMap portal briefly unblurred Gaza satellite imagery, exposing military bases and destruction in northern Gaza before re-censoring the images.
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IDF said Friday it killed four Hamas members in targeted Gaza strikes and destroyed a 2-km tunnel, amid continued airstrikes under the fragile ceasefire.
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The U.N. human rights office's annual update brings the controversial database to 214 firms across 11 countries — landing in the same month Britain, France and Canada moved to cut trade with the settlements.
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Ethiopia's military sharply raised its claimed rebel death toll as clashes spread across three regions — and the collapse of the 2022 Pretoria deal threatens to engulf the Horn of Africa.
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The IDF says it killed Nukhba commander Ibrahim Mohsen and an October 7 infiltrator linked to hostage-taking, as targeted killings strain the fragile truce.
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The UN settlement blacklist update names 61 more companies for doing business linked to West Bank settlements — the largest expansion since the database began — and lands as Britain, France and Canada move to squeeze…
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A private helicopter went down in a field about 50 kilometres southeast of Montreal and caught fire. Police and federal safety investigators are now working separate but complementary inquiries while families await…
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Kyiv says a four-month campaign reclaimed 48 square miles near Lyman using ground robots dropped behind Russian lines — unverified, but a tactical first.
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Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa ran the third-fastest women's marathon in history — then hobbled the final two kilometers as the world record slipped away in Berlin.
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RAF Fairford Iran plot: Prime Minister Andy Burnham says there are “strong indications” Iran played a part in the weekend incident at the US-used airbase. Five suspects remain on strict bail; a sixth suspect, a dual…
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A vehicle carrying pyrotechnics detonated during a patron-saint procession, killing 15-year-old Alejandro González and injuring at least 12 people. Officials say the event had no permit.
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Lavrov met Germany's Wadephul at UNGA in the first Russia-Germany talks since 2022 — a tentative diplomatic channel with no breakthrough in sight for Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy reports 2,200 drones, 1,650 bombs and 38 missiles in seven days — and calls for tougher sanctions as the air war escalates
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A $5.789 billion shortfall is pushing registration, child protection and services for survivors of violence toward failure as displacement remains near record levels.
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The Category 2 hurricane came ashore south of Las Barrancas after peaking at Category 3, with destructive wind, storm surge and a two-country flood corridor still ahead.
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Case Keenum threw for 247 yards and three total touchdowns in his first start in 1,009 days, stunning the Eagles 27-7 on Monday Night Football at Soldier Field.
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Bolivia attorney general arrested: Roger Mariaca was detained with 13 others in a sweeping narco-corruption operation, two days after Washington accused the country's top prosecutor of taking bribes to facilitate…
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The president promised a severe response if investigators connect Tehran to the FlyDubai cockpit attack. That conditional matters: no evidence establishing an Iranian role has been made public.
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Axios reports Washington has quietly moved two Patriot batteries into the Gulf to shield oil and gas infrastructure — the clearest signal yet that the US is preparing for the possibility of renewed large-scale…
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Militia leader Ahmad al-Hamidawi says the group's operations in Iraq stop now that American forces have departed — with one pointed exception for hostile aircraft.
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A witness told Reuters smoke and fire were seen near the Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday. Saudi authorities have said nothing, Aramco has not commented, and nobody has claimed responsibility — but the timing,…
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Israeli media say a pre-dawn strike in Gaza City targeted Hamas's de facto Gaza chief Ali al-Amoudi — the man in line to succeed Yahya Sinwar. Five Palestinians were killed. His fate is unconfirmed, and the ceasefire…
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The Lukoil Ukraine oil deal puts a $20 billion to $22 billion asset sale inside U.S.-Russia peace talks — tying sanctions, energy prices and competing investors to diplomacy over ending the war.
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A Russian strike on a Liberian-flagged cargo ship in an Odesa-region port killed one crew member and injured three on Saturday, even as Moscow publicly confirmed the attack — part of a widening campaign against…
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A Kharkiv guided bomb strike and other overnight attacks killed two people and wounded about 32, according to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov, while a separate Shahed drone attack killed one person in Sumy. The…
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President Donald Trump called New York Attorney General Letitia James “totally corrupt” as she took control of an active investigation into allegations against seven Cornell fraternity brothers. The men deny…
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President Donald Trump has turned a technical dispute over winter mornings into a public Republican confrontation, naming Sen. Tom Cotton as the Senate holdout standing between a bipartisan House vote and year-round…
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Bandaged in an Abu Dhabi hospital, the captain who survived a cockpit stabbing has described the seconds in which he forced open the locked door, allowing passengers and crew to intervene as flydubai flight FZ1073…
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OpenAI says three employees violated its rules for handling sensitive information with an outside AI safety organization. The personnel decision lands after a summer of agent escapes, a cancelled model launch and…
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President Lee Jae Myung says Seoul will take unspecified additional measures unless Kyiv acknowledges a confidentiality agreement covering two transferred North Korean prisoners of war and apologizes. The quarrel has…
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Two drone strikes in two days hit a Kordofan University dormitory and a displacement shelter in El Obeid, killing ten and injuring 60 — with children among the casualties at Al Mina Al Bari, according to UNICEF.
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The Saudi-led coalition says drone wreckage links the Houthis to a strike on a station serving the Prophet's Mosque. The Houthis call the accusation a lie.
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The General Assembly debated the veto that killed the UN's Iran sanctions panel. The shouting about blame is theater — the real story is the 400-kilogram blind spot left behind.
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Washington says Iran's foreign minister was told to depart after wartime diplomacy hit a wall. Tehran says its delegation followed a schedule set nearly two weeks earlier.
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Palestinian officials say settlers shot two people in Yasuf village, killing Mashour Yassin at his home. Israel’s military says it is checking the incident.
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Kyiv wants Washington to choke off Moscow’s answer to Starlink, naming Rassvet component-makers its top sanctions priority ahead of an October 18 deadline.
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Six years after their arrest over the alleged conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam remain in Tihar Jail. The High Court says "judicial discipline" ties its hands — only the…
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Washington warns deepening ties between Yemen's Houthis and Somalia's Al-Shabaab could put the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden under two-shore pressure.
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The State Department revokes 250,000 visas as Trump expands continuous vetting, targeting violations, crimes, fraud and national-security risks worldwide.
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Defence Minister Khawaja Asif ties the pledge to the August Mecca Joint Defense Agreement with Turkey, as Houthi missiles and drones strike the kingdom with growing frequency.
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A British lab coaxed China's Kimi chatbot past guardrails into discussing bioweapons — raising the question no AI firm wants: why did it answer at all?
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Putin ordered the Russian army expanded to 1.55 million troops in his fourth decree of 2026, a wartime buildup signaling Moscow sees no end in sight.
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Multiple Income Tax teams examine financial records and alleged overseas remittances routed through film projects, in an investigation spanning the actor's in-laws, a listed studio, and a top director's office.
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Ukraine’s Third Army Corps says phase three of its northern Donetsk counteroffensive retook 51 sq km near Lyman and five settlements — claims unverified.
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Before 150,000 pilgrims at Catholicism's most famous shrine of healing — and just weeks after France legalized aid in dying — the first American pope delivered the most politically charged address of his four-day…
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In back-to-back US Sunday-show appearances, Iran’s foreign minister warned Tehran is ready for “a doomsday war” while its president said the door to talks is open — one day after President Trump rejected Iran’s…
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Oregon's star quarterback was taken by ambulance to Los Angeles General after a targeting hit while sliding. The urgent question is his health; the wider questions concern enforcement, Oregon's season and a costly…
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Stone said Sweeney should own the decision behind Novig's provocative campaign, as Olympians argued that the promotion reduced women's sport to a sexualized sales device.
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Two unscripted reactions made Brady's Cowboys-Commanders call go viral. His apology exposed the tension between the authenticity viewers reward and the standards a national family broadcast must enforce.
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The 6-3 emergency order lets the administration again provide states with expanded citizenship checks. It is a stay while litigation continues, not a final judgment that the system is lawful.
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Dylan Raiola threw for 289 yards and two touchdowns in relief after Dante Moore was injured, and Oregon found four second-half touchdown drives to rescue its season at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
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Gaza’s Health Ministry puts the death toll at 74,016 Palestinians since October 2023, as the ceasefire stalls and Israeli forces hold over half of Gaza.
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Justin Verlander retires after 21 seasons with the game scripted the way Hollywood never could: his seven-year-old daughter Genevieve summoned to the mound to take him out in the sixth, and a rookie's walk-off homer…
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Israel says a weekend Nuseirat strike killed Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr, the motorcycle driver filmed abducting Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or from the Nova festival.
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AEW announced on Sunday night that Benjamin Satterley — the English high-flyer the world knew as Pac, and before that as WWE’s Neville — had died at 40. No cause of death was given. Twenty-four hours earlier he had…
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Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten says he will present the alleged 2024 Chi Phi fraternity gang-rape case to a grand jury, after a September 14 lawsuit by “Jane Doe” leveled allegations he called…
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A woman's 18th birthday celebration ended in a 30-second burst of gunfire at Carolyn Crayton Park after the group was kicked out of an Airbnb — the worst single shooting the Bibb County sheriff says he can remember.
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Seventeen people were killed when gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles and pistols attacked a tavern in Wedela township, southwest of Johannesburg. A second mass shooting hours later near Cape Town raised the overnight…
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In a candid JioStar interview, the 37-year-old batting great confirmed the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia will be his final tournament in India colours — with one all-consuming target: the…
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Dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour for saying "Free Palestine" on stage, the Grammy-winning rapper is now headlining his own tour — and every dollar goes to Palestinian causes.
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The Converse Karina ad controversy: Converse pulled its Karina Chuck 70 X campaign after backlash over imagery evoking the KKK and lynching; CEO Aaron Cain apologized.
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Ukrainian forces hit a Tactical Missiles Corporation plant in Rostov with Neptune cruise missiles on September 26; satellite images confirm workshop damage.
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Russian glide bombs hit a Sumy school, killing 2 — while 100 people sheltered below survived, a stark lesson in wartime preparedness for schools.
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Russian drones struck Kyiv, Sumy and Kharkiv through Sunday — hitting a high-rise, a telecom HQ and Odesa-bound ships — as Moscow brushed off Western talks.
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More than 50 members of Niger’s security forces were killed in two jihadist attacks in the country’s west last week, two security sources told Reuters on Monday, in the bloodiest blow to the military junta’s army…
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The Microsoft co-founder says AI’s gravest near-term danger is not a science-fiction robot revolt but a person or group turning increasingly capable systems into an instrument of mass harm. His answer is binding…
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Over a dozen UN human-rights experts ask Washington to halt third-country deportations they say expose migrants to torture, persecution and disappearance.
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If your goal is to sell my house fast Orange County buyers still need a reason to act: a credible price, a clean presentation, accessible showings and a contract that can actually close. Speed is a strategy, not a…
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A first time home buyer Orange County plan should begin with the payment you can sustain, not the largest loan a lender may approve. This guide moves from budgeting and representation through inspections, appraisal…
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How much is my home worth Orange County is a question with three different answers: a likely market range, an appraiser's supportable opinion for a particular assignment, and a taxable value set under California rules.
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The cost of selling a house California owners face is not one fixed percentage. It is a negotiated stack of representation, preparation, escrow, title, taxes, credits, loan payoff and moving costs.
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Featured partner: this guide is published by Orange County Home Buyers, whose featured pick is Casa Blanca Realtors.
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Malaysia began returning around 1,500 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday in the first phase of a 5,000-person programme it describes as voluntary, despite objections from the United Nations and rights groups that say…
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Every buyer asks how much house can I afford in California — and the answer takes more than a salary figure. Lenders look at your debt-to-income ratio, your down payment, and the full monthly cost — taxes, insurance,…
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Buying a house with a low down payment is possible in California — 3%, 3.5% FHA, even 0% for eligible buyers. But a smaller down payment means a bigger loan, mortgage insurance, and less cushion. Here is the honest…
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California home buyer closing costs typically run 2% to 5% of the purchase price — cash due on top of your down payment. Here is where every dollar goes, who pays what, and how to keep the total down.
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This first-time home buyer checklist for California covers every step in order — credit, budget, pre-approval, offer, inspection, escrow and closing.
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buying a house with HOA oversight means monthly dues, community rules, and shared financial obligations. In California, an HOA can protect your investment — or quietly erode it. Here is how to tell the difference…
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The moment after seller accepts your offer, escrow opens, your earnest money goes in, and a 30-day clock starts: inspections, appraisal, loan approval, and closing. Here is each step in order.
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negotiating after home inspection is where California buyers win or lose thousands. Learn when to ask for repairs, when to take a credit, when to cut the price — and which findings mean walking away.
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When the appraisal comes in low, your lender will not fund the gap — but you have options. Renegotiate the price, cover the difference, challenge the value, or walk. Here is how California buyers decide.
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how long to buy a house in California? Roughly three to six months from serious start to keys — with escrow itself taking about 30 days. Here is where the time goes and how to move faster.
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Red flags before making offer commitments are easy to miss when you are emotionally invested. Foundation cracks, unpermitted work, water damage, and other neighborhood warning signs — here is what to check before you…
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Should you sell before buying a house, or buy first? The answer shapes your financing, your negotiating power, and your stress level. Here are the practical strategies California movers actually use.
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why isn't my house selling? In California, stalled listings almost always trace to price, presentation, or marketing — not bad luck. Diagnose your listing with these nine checks and fix it fast.
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Selling a house with mortgage still on it is the norm in California — your loan gets paid off at closing from the sale proceeds. Here is how payoff, equity, and timing work, plus what happens if you owe more than the…
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Repairs before selling house hunters arrive should earn their cost back — in price, speed, or both. Here is which fixes California sellers should make, which to skip, and the renovations that never pay.
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To buy a house in Santa Ana is to buy into the civic heart of Orange County. The county seat pairs historic Craftsman streets and downtown lofts with the most central freeway access in the county — and a housing…
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To buy a house in Irvine is to buy into America's most famous master-planned city — village by village, HOA by HOA. The order that makes Irvine desirable also makes it complex: here's how to navigate villages,…
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To buy a house in Anaheim is to choose between two different cities in one: the hillside suburbs of Anaheim Hills in the east and the distinctive historic, resort-adjacent core around downtown and the Platinum…
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To buy a house in Huntington Beach is to buy a lifestyle first and a property second. Surf City's neighborhoods run from the downtown pier scene to the quiet waterways of Huntington Harbour — and the beach-vs.-inland…
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To buy a house in Garden Grove is to make one of Orange County's smartest value plays: a central location, a postwar housing stock priced below the coastal cities, and the cultural richness of Little Saigon — all…
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To buy a house in Fullerton is to buy into north Orange County's most complete city: a real downtown with restaurants and nightlife, Cal State Fullerton's college-town energy, historic districts, and Metrolink trains…
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To buy a house in Costa Mesa is to buy into Orange County's cultural capital — the Segerstrom Center, South Coast Plaza, and a dining scene that punches far above the city's size — wrapped in neighborhoods that range…
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To buy a house in Newport Beach is to enter one of America's most prestigious housing markets — where Balboa Island cottages, Corona del Mar view homes, and Newport Coast estates each play by different rules. Here's…
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Note: this guide is about the city of Orange, California — not Orange County in general. To buy a house in Orange is to buy into the county's best-preserved historic core: Old Towne's plaza circle, Chapman…
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To buy a house in Tustin is to get Irvine-adjacent schools and centrality without the Irvine master plan: Old Town's antique-row charm, Tustin Legacy's new construction on the old Marine base, and the guard-gated…
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To buy a house in Mission Viejo is to buy into one of California's most successful master plans: a private lake, rolling Saddleback Valley hills, and quiet neighborhoods designed from scratch for family life — with…
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To buy a house in Laguna Beach is to buy into a century-old artist colony wrapped around some of California's most dramatic coastline — where canyon roads, limited inventory, and fierce local character make every…
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Florida executed Curtis Beasley, 77, its 16th execution of 2026 — as U.S. executions accelerate and the elderly death-row age debate sharpens.
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The Supreme Court let Trump's third-country deportations restart, pausing a lower-court block — but hasn't ruled the policy itself legal. That fight is next.
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President Donald Trump's 'super intelligence' accord misspells 'United States' under his signature — a viral typo on a White House AI document. Who signed it.
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Trump got tech titans to sign a 'morally binding' AI pact at the White House — a voluntary pledge to police themselves. With no enforcement, will anyone comply?
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Fito's wife and daughter were arrested in Colombia: the FBI-backed Gran Fénix 059 operation captured them in Sabana de Torres over Los Choneros finances.
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The smart-ring maker was supposed to price its Nasdaq debut on Tuesday and begin trading Wednesday. Instead it pulled the offering at the last minute — despite strong demand, 5.7 million paying members, and a deal…
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Anthropic IPO date 2026 nears: the Claude maker’s 261-page prospectus ahead of the Anthropic IPO date 2026 warns of “existential risks” ahead of a $2 trillion record listing.
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NATO chief Rutte warned Russia from Lithuania that the alliance will 'defend every inch' of its territory as Baltic security fears deepen amid rising tensions.
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Armed gangs seized at least 47 farmers in Niger State and 40 women in Zamfara State over the weekend — mostly women, taken in two coordinated raids — as Nigeria's ransom kidnapping economy hits a grim new peak months…
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The 9th Earl Spencer married Norwegian archaeologist Cat Jarman in May 2026 — a wedding that made her the Countess Spencer and quietly redrew the map of Britain’s most famous aristocratic family.
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Nine months after her divorce from the 9th Earl Spencer was finalised, Karen Spencer is building a new life in the Northamptonshire countryside — charity chairwoman, chatelaine emerita of Althorp, and keeper of the…
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Althorp House 2026 opening dates: Diana’s childhood home opens two months a year — dates, ticket prices, what’s included, how to get there.
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She rests on a private island in the middle of a Northamptonshire lake, on the estate where she grew up. Inside the most famous — and most carefully guarded — burial place in modern Britain.
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Model, Bulgari and Dolce & Gabbana spokesmodel, wife, mother — and Princess Diana’s niece. As rare 2026 family photos surface, here is what to know about the most famous of Charles Spencer’s seven children.
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Seven children, three marriages, one 500-year-old estate. Meet the next generation of Spencers — from the fashion runways to the heir of Althorp.
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A Canadian medical-transfer jet flying a patient and relative from Bermuda to Boston lost contact near Nantucket early Saturday. Four crew members were also aboard, and the Coast Guard says its air-and-surface search…
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A nighttime strike on the al-Asala residential building killed at least five people, medics said, including a Christian mother and daughter. The Israeli military offered no immediate comment.
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The IDF says both men were rebuilding the militant group's rocket and anti-tank capabilities in violation of the ceasefire — the latest in a string of targeted strikes inside Gaza.
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A Burhan adviser warns Washington's 90-day Sudan ceasefire could freeze the country's split — partition by pause, Libya-style. Is the U.S. listening?
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Putin's Duma speech made parliament's opening a wartime manifesto: defense first, veterans in seats, annexation 'settled' — plus a budget warning few wanted.
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The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force through March 31, 2027, after another deadly gang attack underscored the gap between the mission's mandate and the troops it has actually deployed.
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Estonia blamed Russia for an arson attack on Milrem Robotics, maker of Ukraine's battlefield robots — a sharp escalation in Moscow's hybrid war on NATO.
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King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's first woman prime minister, days after her PAM party topped the September 23 parliamentary election. It is a genuine historic first — and a test…
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Rome has pulled its final soldiers out of Iraq, closing a 12-year chapter that began with the war against the Islamic State. The withdrawal — accelerated by a March airstrike on the Italian base at Erbil — leaves…
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The Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Board voted unanimously to lift the cash rate a quarter point to 4.60 per cent — the fourth hike of 2026 and the highest the rate has sat since late 2011. With the Middle East…
Read full storyMaría del Carmen Abascal was carried from the Madrid apartment she had lived in for 71 years on a stretcher, given 30 minutes to pack. A week later her name is on the lips of a protest camp in Puerta del Sol, her…
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Myanmar's junta chief visits Malaysia in October — days after 1,500 deportations and a junta airstrike killed dozens. Refugees or legitimacy: what's it for?
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Dahlan's faction will back one list for Palestine's Nov 28 vote — the first in 20 years. But will Gaza's ruins and Israel allow it?
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The Senate blocked a measure requiring a State Department report on West Bank violence against Palestinians, falling four votes short of the 51 needed to advance.
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A $967 million U.S. import ban now blocks Canadian whisky, whey and big-engine motorcycles, escalating a far larger fight over tariffs and USMCA.
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Narendra Modi and Donald Trump pushed India-US interim trade talks forward in a phone call, with tariffs, energy purchases and defense ties on the table.
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Hegseth paired a four-star command for AI, drones and robotics with a plan to eliminate or downgrade one in five general and flag officer billets.
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Tehran says Washington sent a seven-day ceasefire counterproposal, forcing a decision over sanctions relief, shipping security and the Strait of Hormuz.
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Nearly three months after a Houston father of three bled out on a barbershop driveway, the Texas Tribune has named the officer who pulled the trigger — a retired ICE agent brought back to the force amid a…
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Britain hit 31 Russian targets with new sanctions: shadow-fleet tankers, alleged torturers and disinformation networks — London's toughest package of the year.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they broke up a militant cell in Zahedan before it could strike. The raid — and what Tehran chose to announce about it — reveals as much about the government's nerves seven months into…
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Zelenskyy said Ukraine hit Russian oil, drone, maritime and military targets overnight — including the Samara refinery — as 'just responses' to Moscow's war.
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Syrian government and Hezbollah representatives reportedly met face to face for the first time, trading non-hostility assurances for demands on smuggling and sleeper cells.
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The F1 Sepang chaos 2026 began before a single racing lap was run: a tropical storm delayed the start by 40 minutes, then the first wet formation laps under Formula 1's new 2026 regulations froze Lewis Hamilton's…
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Dragon Grace docked with the ISS on October 1, 2026, just 7 hours 55 minutes after launch — the fastest U.S. launch-to-docking in station history — delivering four astronauts for a six-month science mission.
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The reported Tencent Oracle AI chip lease would keep advanced hardware outside China while giving a Chinese technology giant remote access to its computing power.
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The Volantis laser AI chip interconnect aims to replace short copper links with light, letting accelerators reach far more memory without waiting for exotic new packaging.
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A Micron earnings chip stocks rally lifted semiconductor names in Japan and South Korea, reinforcing the AI-memory thesis while bond yields challenged valuations.
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Asked by Time whether he regrets putting Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Trump answered ‘Yeah. Yeah’ — a rupture with his own justices.
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The Bashir Khartoum hospital transfer has reopened Sudan's hardest question: what happens to an 82-year-old ICC-wanted ex-ruler when his health fails?
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The Gulf's oil-export system is recovering faster than commodity analysts expected, easing the most severe physical-supply fears even as war risk keeps crude near triple digits.
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The bond market's message is clear: growth, inflation and public borrowing are keeping long-term money expensive, forcing equity investors to defend AI-era valuations against a far higher discount rate.
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A historic export surge puts South Korea at the center of the AI hardware cycle, but its size also reveals how much the country's growth now depends on a narrow group of memory-chip champions.
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Kashkari: inflation still too high. The Minneapolis Fed president says softer PCE data changes nothing — growth is resilient enough to permit another hike.
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Trump's first official Oklahoma visit in six years is a midterm turnout test for a nervous GOP — staged indoors in Durant as thunderstorms ring the arena.
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Trump's approval rating hit a career low of 31% in an October 2026 AP-NORC poll, with 65% of Americans blaming his policies for the cost of living crisis.
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Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to finance its TPU chip leases, Anthropic's IPO prospectus reveals — making the chipmaker its supplier, lessor and lender all at once. It is the purest example…
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The Survivor alum took the $750,000 prize — plus America's Favorite Houseguest — in a finale-night sweep over Taylor Brown.
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Trump's October 2026 Texas rally launched a 32-day midterm blitz for Ken Paxton, with jabs at James Talarico's polls and a Dennis Rodman cameo in Denton.
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Beijing's pause reaches beyond a trade decision: removing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from a major refining hub compounds refinery damage elsewhere and turns the oil market's focus from available crude to usable fuel.
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An unprovoked rush-hour stabbing on a packed J train near Woodhaven Boulevard left Mesias Lojano, 59, dead and renewed the debate over safety in New York City's subway system. Police say the suspect, 25-year-old…
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Trump $500 checks: who qualifies, which states get them, and when. 950,000 people in 30 states are getting paid now; the $5,000 dividend needs Congress first.
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A 3-year-old pulled a loaded handgun from his backpack inside a Canton Township daycare classroom and passed it to classmates. No one was hurt — but on October 1, the boy's parents were charged, and the father is a…
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Yemen's armed forces said warplanes flew between 20 and 27 precision strikes on Houthi positions across Taiz province on October 2, 2026. The UN's Yemen envoy warned the fighting — centered on Ansar Allah's offensive…
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Sean "Diddy" Combs is back in solitary confinement at FCI Fort Dix while federal officials investigate claims that he lived a pampered prison life — inmates cooking and cleaning for him, massages, a contraband…
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Kylie Kelce apologized to Kate Middleton on her podcast for calling the Princess of Wales "Princess Kate" — a name the Princess reportedly finds offensive. The correction is a small moment with a surprisingly large…
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Kenan Urker, the on-again fiancé of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and father of their daughter Aurora, was found dead at his Raceland, Louisiana, home on his birthday. Police are investigating; no official cause of death has…
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Portland's newest television voice was gone before his first broadcast. The reversal exposes a basic vetting failure, revives the argument over teenage posts and leaves an NBA franchise racing the calendar.
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Putin’s Kaliningrad nuclear warning rests on a 2024 doctrine clause about ‘isolating’ Russian territory. The map, the September 30 non-paper, and NATO’s split.
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Hegseth Pentagon religious affairs office plans put chaplain advocacy and “spiritual readiness” on a direct line to the secretary — raising a consequential question about how faith operates inside a military chain of…
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The Senior Citizens League projects a 3.5% cost-of-living adjustment — the biggest in four years. The official number lands October 14, and September's inflation data will decide the final tenth of a point.
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Seven were reported killed and Workshop No. 4 destroyed in blasts at a Moscow-region plant linked to warheads for Shahed attack drones — the death toll is unconfirmed and the cause remains undisclosed.
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A federal lawsuit says the Pentagon and budget office unlawfully removed a long-standing option for citizens born abroad, turning an administrative form revision into an urgent test of ballot access.
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A Pentagon-led working group will bring six European allies to Poland in November while leaving out Britain, France and the three Baltic states. The spending rationale only partly explains the dividing line.
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A nationwide pause at American diplomatic posts starts two days before Brazil votes, with no public timetable for reopening and no explanation of the threat behind the decision.
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After the UN condemned the September 28 Kyauktaw market bombing and Fortify Rights called it a possible war crime, Myanmar’s junta answered with more bombs: a midnight strike on a displacement shelter in Ponnagyun…
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Six tankers were struck in the Strait of Hormuz in a single week — the sharpest wave of attacks on commercial shipping since the strait effectively closed. Brent crude reclaimed $100 a barrel. No one has claimed…
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Daria Shipilova, 28, died on October 1 after two days on a ventilator in Shelekhov. Officials first spoke only of a “particularly dangerous infection”; the head of neighboring Buryatia later named the disease as…
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Seven months into the war with Iran, the president says his 'four to six weeks' forecast was always about the nuclear mission — and that he ended it in a single night. The record says otherwise.
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Santo Domingo's decision to bar Haiti's national team from its venues turns a 4-1 football result into the latest front in the island's deepening divide — and sets up a fight with FIFA over a striker's three-word remark.
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Apple has finally entered the world's most populous country, but its first Indian wallet is deliberately narrow: Axis Bank credit cards on Visa and Mastercard, with no UPI and no RuPay.
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Trump rallied Vandalia Saturday with a vulgarity-laced turnout pitch, a viral Ramaswamy child mishap, and a Gruden cameo — one month before Ohio's Senate and governor races.
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Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi extended the deadline to disarm Iran-backed militias to June 30, 2027 — on the day he declared the U.S. coalition mission over. But Kataib Hezbollah says it answers to no timetable. Inside…
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Tens of thousands of Spaniards filled the streets on Saturday in the largest housing demonstrations in years, a day after parliament rejected emergency tenant protections. With 70,000 marching in Madrid alone and a…
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A car driven by an 18-year-old struck around 1,000 Newcastle Knights supporters gathered at Wallsend to farewell the team bus to Sydney — turning a morning of celebration ahead of the NRL Grand Final into a…
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Nvidia says Lenovo and Acer will ship the first Windows computers built around RTX Spark in October, moving its Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU combination from keynote promise to consumer hardware. The release could…
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The G7 will release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil through the International Energy Agency over four months, with a substantial diesel tranche in the first 20 days. It is a targeted bridge for an…
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will double down on strikes against Russian oil refineries in answer to an alleged Kremlin doctrine meant to make life in Kyiv and other cities untenable. He drew a line…
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A Saturday statement from the Sudan Doctors Network says footage circulating online shows paramilitary fighters executing civilians accused of siding with the army — with indications the killings were ethnically…
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A 15-page ruling gives prosecutors their first consequential pretrial evidentiary victory, but preserves the defense's right to test the protected witness in open questioning.
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AFP correspondents heard at least five blasts across the Yemeni capital on Saturday as warplanes struck Houthi military sites — the sharpest Saudi–Houthi escalation in years, with a hospital damaged and tens of…
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Taiz is seeing its widest escalation in three weeks while Saudi Arabia and forces aligned with Yemen's internationally recognized government prepare a major coastal offensive toward Bab al-Mandeb. Washington has…
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Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile from its east-coast Wonsan area toward the East Sea, extending the range of its latest test and sharpening a confrontation already inflamed by a disputed mine blast inside the…
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A brief shutdown exposed a lasting Baltic dilemma: commanders must react before they know whether an unfamiliar radar track is a hostile drone, a wayward aircraft or even a flock of birds.
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A 700-kilometer flight from Wonsan has become a strategic argument: North Korea says it proved an intermediate-range, evasive weapon, while regional governments say the missile type remains under analysis.
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Indiana's season ended in a first-round Game 3 loss to Las Vegas. Now the Fever must decide whether continuity around Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, Aliyah Boston and coach Stephanie White is still the fastest route…
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David Ellison will put the Skydance name above a media empire spanning Paramount, Warner Bros., CBS, CNN, HBO and Discovery when the roughly $110 billion combination closes Tuesday. The legal and market changes are…
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Gunfire broke out at a packed late-night party at University Plaza, a strip mall roughly a block from Cal State Northridge, killing two young people. One person was stabbed in the chaos, dozens were detained, and a…
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A historic bond-market selloff lifted the benchmark home-loan rate by a quarter point in seven days, freezing more buyers out even as Federal Reserve officials signal no urgency to raise again.
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