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• AI is helping save eyesight before it is lost

  27-09-2026 17:48 via article.wn.com
  In the sixth article in our series, a simple eye...
  
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• Voting closes for Fat Bear Week Tuesday evening

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Fat Bear Week's bracket leaves two final competitors: bear 910, a ten-year-old mama bear, and bear 89, or "Backpack," nicknamed for riding on his mother's back in the 2006 Fat Bear Week competition. Voting closes at 7 p.m. Mountain time on Tuesday. ......
  
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• UK PM Burnham wants to scrap the first-past-the-post electoral system

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday the Labour Party will contest the next election with a manifesto commitment to change the electoral system, after he announced he was establishing a national commission to look at reform. Burnham has long...
  
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• Trump says ICE can arrest migrants without criminal records

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump has reaffirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents retain...
  
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• Trump digs in on Iran blockade

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
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• Trump advisor admits president is wrong and midterms will be ‘f***ing rough’ for GOP

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
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• Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  According to AdImpact, which tracks media...
  
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• Swiss President Guy Parmelin heading to India: What’s big on the table for PM Modi?

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  The proposed visit follows several...
  
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• Stocks slip on Wall Street as rising Treasury yields pressure the market

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Pressure from rising Treasury yields...
  
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• Questions surround counterterror probe into US-run air base after suspects were freed on bail

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  The U.K.'s counterterror police have...
  
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• New York man killed after bag caught in subway train doors, police say

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Man, 57, was reportedly leaving A train at Utica Avenue station when stuck bag dragged him back and on to tracks...
  
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• Movie Review: In 'Digger,' a 'Dr. Strangelove' for the climate change era

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Just as the fate of the world hangs in...
  
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• Morocco’s king names Fatima Zahra Mansouri prime minister, the first woman to hold the position ...

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Morocco’s king names Fatima Zahra Mansouri prime minister, the first woman to hold the position in the Muslim country. ......
  
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• Morocco King appoints Fatima Al Mansouri as country's first woman Prime Minister

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Tuesday named Marrakesh mayor Fatima Ezzahra Al Mansouri as the country's first woman prime minister, the royal cabinet said, after her party won last week's parliamentary elections. Al Mansouri, who has also served as the kingdom's minister of habitat, was received by King Mohammed VI at the royal palace and was "tasked with forming the new government", the cabinet said. Al Mansouri's liberal, centrist party came out on top in parliamentary elections, which was he
  
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• Manchester City guilty of serious breaches of Premier League's financial rules

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier...
  
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• Lula da Silva or Flavio Bolsonaro? What latest poll says about Brazil's presidential race

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Brazil will vote to...
  
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• Love and 'War': All's not fair in new HBO legal drama

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  In “War,” a new anthology series on HBO, the biggest posturing is in the courtroom, where a tech billionaire (Dominic West) squares off with his actress wife (Sienna Miller). ......
  
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• Lindsay Clancy returns to court after Massachusetts murder case mistrial

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Clancy’s attorneys say a mistrial shouldn’t have been declared and a retrial would result in double jeopardy...
  
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• ‘Leave out the extra 5 billion men’: Report reveals texts between victim, accused in Cornell ...

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  A former student of...
  
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• India rejects Turkish president’s Kashmir remarks at UNGA

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  New Delhi: India on Tuesday, September 29, rejected references to Jammu and Kashmir in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), calling them “unwarranted”...
  
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• Hurricane Polo makes landfall in Baja California, flooding coastal communities and toppling trees

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Hurricane Polo has made landfall in...
  
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• Father hurt in 80-foot fall while rappelling with toddler

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  A father is in the hospital after he and his one-year-old child fell approximately 80 feet while rappelling on the same rope. ......
  
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• Ex-soldier killed in horror car crash after banned driver accelerates to 87mph

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Rowan Grant was jailed for ten years and disqualified from driving for life ......
  
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• Eiffel Tower chief to quit after female staff told to stay hidden during Hindu group visit

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Patrick Branco Ruivo to leave post after decision contrary to France’s ‘value of equality’ sparked outrage and strike...
  
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• Dutch police arrest suspected member of group that claimed FBI hack

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  The suspect, 24, was arrested before the alleged cyber attack took place. ......
  
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• Beyond the megacity: Is Vietnam redefining how future cities are built?

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Digital systems are also becoming part of city management. Climate risks have to be considered in planning, especially in coastal and densely populated areas. ......
  
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• Argentina threatens UK with international legal action over Falkland Islands oil exploration

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  In a major update, Argentina has escalated its decades-long sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom, giving London a strict two-week ultimatum to halt offshore oil exploration near the Falkland Islands. Shifting the political dynamic, Argentine President Javier Milei announced that his...
  
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• AP News Summary at 12:11 p.m. EDT

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Ex-special counsel Smith tells senators he won't 'be silenced' by Trump's threats of prosecution ......
  
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• A world roiled by diesel

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  TO borrow a sports metaphor, the government’s decision to lift its idiotic freeze on land transport fares was a “Hail Mary” pass that saved most modes of land transport — jeepneys, provincial and city buses, etc. — from sure bankruptcy. The provincial bus operators who sent an SOS to the national government via an urgent appeal for fare adjustment were not exaggerating when they claimed that they will not survive without a fare hike. “When the cost of the stat
  
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• 3 Nigerians killed in recent weeks in South Africa, Nigeria says

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Nigerian authorities report that three Nigerian nationals have been killed in South Africa in recent weeks, adding to tensions between the two countries ......
  
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