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• ASEAN talks on strengthening regional information, media cooperation

  29-09-2026 09:19 via article.wn.com
  VIENTIANE, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Laos hosted the 27th meeting of the ASEAN committee on culture and information's sub-committee on information (COCI-SCI), bringing together representatives from ASEAN member states and the ASEAN Secretariat to strengthen regional...
  
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• What if ‘A Different World’ were set in the Trump era? We’re about to find out

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  When “A Different World” premiered on Sept. 24 back in 1987, the president was a lame-duck conservative Republican who was dealing with Middle East issues. ......
  
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• Treasury yields ease as inflation concerns persist

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  Treasury yields eased early Tuesday amid persistent concerns over inflationary pressures. ......
  
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• The world needs better power grids. Why smaller may be better.

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  LUND, Sweden — Swedish tech entrepreneur Jonas Birgersson remembers seeing the satellite image of Ukraine — a blackened scar on Europe’s face — after Russia attacked its power grid in 2022. ......
  
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• Taiwan says existing US arms sales unchanged as USD 14 billion package stalls

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  Taiwan says existing US arms sales unchanged as USD 14 billion package stalls ......
  
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• Secretary drowned in bath at home with plughole blocked by sponge

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  Natasha Margaret Keryk drowned in the bath at her Darwen home on 7 October 2024, an inquest at Blackburn Town Hall heard ......
  
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• Rubio says UK airbase incident involved a foreign state

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  FAIRFORD, England, Sept 29 (Reuters) - US ⁠Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the...
  
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• Pakistan blocks airspace for Russian flight carrying Bangladesh's nuclear fuel

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  Pakistan blocks airspace for Russian flight carrying Bangladesh's nuclear fuel ......
  
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• Pak Taliban's debut in Sindh? Gunmen in video invoke bin Qasim's Islamic invasion

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  Pak Taliban's debut in Sindh? Gunmen in video invoke bin Qasim's Islamic invasion ......
  
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• Over 100 Israeli settlers riot in West Bank village, block Palestinian family's return

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  JERUSALEM, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- More than 100 Israeli settlers rioted overnight in the occupied West Bank village of Jalud, setting fire to Palestinian property and preventing a Palestinian family displaced by earlier settler violence from returning...
  
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• Myanmar airstrike death toll rises to 50

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  T he death toll from a military airstrike in west Myanmar rose to 50 on Tuesday, two local aid workers at the scene said,...
  
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• In the early 1900s, a United States plant explorer tested Japanese kudzu near Washington, D.C.; later promoted for soil protection, the “wonder plant” spread across millions of acres of the South

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  Kudzu was no accident of nature: federal agencies promoted it and paid for it, and the evidence shows an ecological impact that is real but smaller than the legend suggests. The Soil Conservation Service, created in 1935 as a USDA agency and now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service, tested, praised, and paid farmers to plant kudzu in the 1930s and 1940s, before the ecological cost was counted, as naturalist Bill Finch recounts in Smithsonian Magazine.David Fairchild planted kudzu
  
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• How a rape rumour sent an Indian university into turmoil and emptied hostels

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  Police are trying to verify whether a female student was raped at Lovely Professional University (LPU). ......
  
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• Genes may influence fruit, vegetable intake: twin study

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  SYDNEY, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- An international twin study found that genetic differences contribute to fruit and vegetable intake, highlighting the complex mix of biological, social and environmental factors that shape people's diets. The research challenges the idea that healthy...
  
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• Dad and daughter both die in workplace incident as community in shock

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  A father in his 50s and his daughter in her 20s died following a workplace incident at Banagher Precast Concrete ......
  
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• CNBC Daily Open: AI’s creators sound the alarm — while others keep building the infrastructure

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  When the AI boom first took off, companies were competing to see what their AI models can do. Now, they reassure investors of what their models CAN'T do. ......
  
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• Can't swallow or spit: How Gwadar project in Pak has become a liability for China

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  Can't swallow or spit: How Gwadar project in Pak has become a liability for China ......
  
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• Airstrike in Gaza kills Hamas armed wing chief, say officials

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  An Israeli airstrike killed Izz al-Din Al-Beik, the head of Hamas’ armed wing in the northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Israel Katz said the Israeli military had targeted and killed...
  
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• 5 Signs Your Coworker May Not Like You as Much as They Pretend

  29-09-2026 11:23 via article.wn.com
  A TikTok user, @zoraidasworld, shared a video explaining the five signs that, according to her, secretly hint that someone does not like you at work. The video had received 29,500 likes and 920 comments as of publication. The woman started by saying that a lot of people can feel this at their workplace but cannot explain it. She added that the colleague who doesn’t like you won’t say it directly. The first point, according to her, is that their energy...
  
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• Who is Chirantan CJ Desai? Why did Mark Zuckerberg\u0026#039;s Meta choose him to lead AI platform?

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  Meta has appointed former MongoDB CEO Chirantan ......
  
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• We are in this together, Earth's leaders told each other at UN - But how ...

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  Across the words of more...
  
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• US-Iran talks: Tehran awaits Washington response on Strait of Hormuz proposal

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  Iran says it held...
  
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• The Portuguese House review – picturesque, polite drama of secrets and revelations at a country estate

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  Spanish drama about people leaving their old lives behind plays out like a literary novel, with Manolo Solo excellent as a discombobulated gardener...
  
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• South Korea says North Korean mines behind DMZ blast violated armistice

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  SEOUL, Sept 29 (Reuters) - ⁠South Korea's...
  
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• Russia hits port facilities in overnight strikes on Odesa region of Ukraine – Europe live

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  At least eight people injured as damaged port infrastructure and other sites hit, according to the governor of the Black Sea region...
  
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• Reserve Bank of Australia Raises Interest Rates to 15-Year High

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.6 percent, citing ongoing inflationary pressures....
  
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• Over 20 years, a New York painter hand-dug a lake and planted thousands of native trees; the private landscape survives as Olana State Historic Site

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  Frederic Edwin Church is best known as a Hudson River School painter, yet he treated the land around his home as a large-scale landscape composition. New York State Parks describes Olana as the 19th-century home, studio, and designed landscape of Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church, his wife Isabel and their four children. The estate sits near Hudson, New York, and the state agency notes that 2026 marks the bicentennial of his birth. Two parts of that landscape are especially striki
  
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• Mojtaba Khamenei claims \u0026#039;US pleading to stop war\u0026#039;, says enemy forces will be removed from ...

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  In a message issued on the occasion of Iran ......
  
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• Major news outlets ask US Judge to extend block on White House press ban

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  Major news outlets ask US Judge to extend block on White House press ban Major US news organizations including CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are pushing a federal court to prolong legal safeguards against the Trump administration's press restrictions. Attorneys representing the prominent media entities formally requested a preliminary injunction from a U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C., aiming to...
  
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• Jaishankar warns of \u0026#039;major food crisis\u0026#039;; flags US \u0026#039;lack of empathy\u0026#039; | Key points

  29-09-2026 11:01 via article.wn.com
  S Jaishankar warned of a...
  
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