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• ASML explores capacity expansion beyond 30 pct increase for 2028

  14-10-2026 15:48 via article.wn.com
  THE HAGUE, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML said Wednesday it is exploring ways to expand production capacity beyond the previously announced 30 percent increase planned for 2028, as growing investment in artificial intelligence (AI) drives stronger demand for its...
  
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• Would You Press This Button?

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  We may not want it to, but A.I. is asking us how to live. ......
  
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• World leaders weigh on AI's role as driver of growth, its risks

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Artificial intelligence is widely seen as one of the key drivers of global growth in recent years, but it also poses economic risks should investment in the technology decline, exp ......
  
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• Wine bottles worth ₹55 crore stolen from Italy’s Marchesi Antinori: How 7 masked men carried ...

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Thieves reportedly stole about 30,000 premium bottles worth $5.8 million from a Marchesi Antinori logistics facility in Tuscany. Here's how it happened. ......
  
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• Why Air India, Air India Express temporarily suspended flights to and from Jeddah, Riyadh and ...

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Air India and Air India Express extended their Saudi flight suspensions through 24 October 2026. Check the details. ......
  
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• US home sellers turn to mortgage rate buydowns as high rates slow home sales

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  US home sellers are...
  
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• United’s C.E.O. Says It Should Cost More Not to Sit in the Middle Seat

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Scott Kirby of United Airlines said that “it’s expensive to fly airplanes” and that airfares may have further to rise. ......
  
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• Truck crashes into Indian temple: 8 police officers suspended; 1 removed from post

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Action was taken against nine Indian police personnel, including the removal of a City Superintendent of Police (CSP) from his post and the suspension of eight other personnel, over alleged negligence after a truck crashed into a temple in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior, killing at least 14. India's Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav instructions had been issued to take action against the personnel and conduct a detailed...
  
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• Today in History: October 18, ‘Mr. October’ hits three homers to clinch World Series

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Today is Sunday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2026. There are 74 days left in the year. ......
  
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• Three Scenarios for a Leaderless World

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Here are three scenarios for what the new global order might look like. ......
  
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• Survived two world wars, torched during protests: France’s Limoges town hall burns

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  A massive fire engulfed the historic town hall in Limoges, France, on October 17, as protests and unrest were reported across the...
  
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• Some 1,500 shops and retailers damaged in French protests: Trade group

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Around 1,500 shops and retailers were damaged in French protests...
  
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• SoftBank in early talks to buy Allied Universal

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  The deal, if completed, could value the business around $18 billion. | World News ......
  
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• Small states like Cyprus need European security, Yale historian Westad says

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  A world of trade, dialogue and interdependence can still stumble into catastrophe. In 1914, fear, nationalism and miscalculation turned rivalry into war with alarming ease. Today, as the great powers grow suspicious of one another’s intentions, Odd Arne Westad, professor of history and international relations at Yale, sees troubling parallels. Uncertainty about the future, he argues, can make conflict look like the better option now. Speaking to Phileleftheros about his book ‘The Com
  
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• Savannah James, Wife of LeBron, Comes Off the Sidelines

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  After some two-dozen seasons of basketball, the wife of LeBron James is taking her own shot. ......
  
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• Saudi shuts iconic skyscraper, chopper crash kills 2 near Yemen

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Riyadh’s iconic Kingdom Centre skyscraper ordered office tenants to work remotely Sunday following repeated Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, as the Saudi-led coalition said two pilo ......
  
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• Russia says \u0026#39;massive\u0026#39; drone attack kills one, hits oil sites

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  A "massive" Ukrainian drone attack overnight killed one person, wounded five others and set two oil refineries ablaze in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, its governor said Sunday. "One person was killed and five others hurt and hospitalised following a massive attack carried out by Ukrainian Nazi military drones," governor Alexandre Beglov said. He added firefighters were battling blazes at the Saint Petersburg oil...
  
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• Republicans zero in on cultural issues in campaign’s final stretch

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  The GOP sees transgender...
  
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• Recontextualising industrial policy: Lessons from the East Asian developmental state

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  This paper is authored by Srijan Shukla, ORF. ......
  
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• Pope addresses crowd in Vatican for first time since surgery

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Pope Leo XIV addressed thousands of people in St Peter's Square on...
  
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• Police arrest 1,800 after worst rioting in years shakes France

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  France grappled Sunday with widespread damage from violent protests that had led to 1,800 arrests, a torched historic town hall and looted shops. The unrest, which officials descri ......
  
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• Oklahoma Families Faced the Hottest Summer Ever and an Electricity Crisis

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Record heat, a rising demand for power and an electricity crisis are closing in on Oklahoma families trying to keep the lights on and the AC running. ......
  
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• Multiple people dead or injured in disaster at Alberta military base training area

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Emergency personnel are responding to a “significant and tragic” fire that started at a training area on a Canadian Forces Base in east...
  
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• ‘I Shall Be Very Surprised if There Isn’t a Next Chapter’: A Q&A With Sarah Coakley

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Unless we can regenerate the depth of the theological tradition alongside the depth of spiritual transformation, our churches deserve to be empty. ......
  
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• Lithuania tells residents to go to shelters after detecting a flying object

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Lithuania told residents in central and northern parts of the country to seek shelter for about an hour on Sunday morning after an unidentified flying object entered its airspace, the army and national crisis management centre said. The object was likely a drone which...
  
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• Lionel Messi's legacy takes root with endangered plant named after him

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Lionel Messi probably has earned every soccer honour possible during his decorated career. Now, a recently discovered plant species has led him to a one-of-a-kind tribute: a flower named after him. It's called Salvia messii in honor of the 39-year-old Messi. The...
  
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• Kolkata stampede leaves at least 19 dead including children - mum loses both daughters

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  At least 19 were killed, mostly women and children, in the stampede during the annual Hindu festival of Durga Puja in Kolkata in eastern India's West Bengal state ......
  
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• Iraq’s new Turkmen minister pledges co-op with Türkiye

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  In addition to Iraq’s Turkmen community, Mohammed Samaan Agha’s appointment as a state minister in Iraq was also welcomed in Türkiye. The minister, who also happens to be the leade ......
  
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• Iran parliament approves Mehrdad Akhlaghi as new defence minister

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  Iranian lawmakers on Sunday approved Mehrdad Akhlaghi as the country's new defence minister, replacing his predecessor who was killed on the first day of the war with the United States. "Members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) today gave a vote of confidence to Mehrdad Akhlaghi,...
  
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• How erectile dysfunction led a KGB spy into the arms of MI6

  18-10-2026 13:46 via article.wn.com
  In “Redwood” Ben Macintyre shows how personal struggles help recruit informants | World News ......
  
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