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• Brazil Amazon Mining Project

  22-10-2026 03:29 via WN.com - World News
  FILE - A fisher sits outside his home on the banks of the Xingu River, near the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Sept. 6, 2019. ......
  
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• Wisconsin Republican Tiffany says Zuckerberg money was the reason he tried to overturn 2020 election

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor who supported President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 loss in the battleground state said Wednesday he did it because of concerns with election funding from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. “One of the reasons that I did that is ‘ Zuckerbucks,’” U.S. Rep. Tom...
  
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• Why is Rubio visiting world’s largest oil refinery in India

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and...
  
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• Wall St sees Tesla-SpaceX merger as inevitable, but split on price

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  By Akash Sriram A Tesla-SpaceX merger appears...
  
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• U.S. and Israel Plan Post-Election Iran Strikes Amid Skepticism

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  The U.S. and Israel are preparing to resume attacks on Iran following the U.S. midterm elections, according to foreign media reports. While the two countries are reportedly considering new attack methods, experts predict that additional airstrikes will struggle to achieve significant results compared to the early stages of the war. On October 21 (local time), the New York Times (NYT) cited anonymous sources to report that the U.S. and Israel have established concrete plans to resume attacks on I
  
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• U.S. and Israel draw up plans for renewed strikes on Iran after elections

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  The U.S. and Israeli militaries have developed specific...
  
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• Travelers to hot spot sternly warned by State Department as officials deny wider Gulf shutdown

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  Americans traveling in and through the Middle East have a new...
  
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• Teacher injured in Oregon school attack says she had no chance to protect children

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  A teacher wounded in last week’s attack on a special education classroom at an Oregon elementary school never had a chance to try to shelter any of the children inside, she said Wednesday in a statement issued by a family friend. Becky Drury said she ran to see what was going on but immediately saw the shooter and rushed back to the classroom. “I turned to shut the door behind me, but the shooter was already there,” Drury said....
  
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• Stock futures fall as investors digest earnings from Meta and Tesla: Live updates

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  The S&P 500 posted a three-day winning streak on Wednesday, and the Nasdaq Composite rose as Tesla and SpaceX rallied. ......
  
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• Sovereign wealth funds' China and Hong Kong investments surge 190% after a bruising slump

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  Sovereign wealth funds are pouring billions of dollars back into China after a sharp investment slump. ......
  
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• Senate Republicans fear Mississippi is in play, as panic spreads through the GOP

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  HTML Senate Republicans�are weighing three last-ditch...
  
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• North Korea says it will resume propaganda broadcasts across border into South Korea

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea plans to resume anti-Seoul propaganda broadcasts along the heavily armed border with South Korea, leader Kim Jong Un’s sister said, reviving a psychological warfare campaign as tensions rise after land mine blasts injured three South Korean front-line soldiers. Kim Yo Jong, her brother’s top spokesperson on Washington and Seoul, made the announcement Wednesday after visiting front-line areas where North Korean troops are reinforcing the border. She ren
  
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• North Korea Condemns South Korean Warning Shots as Provocations

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  North Korea has launched a counteroffensive against South Korea at the United Nations (UN, United Nations) official platform, labeling South Korean warning shots in response to Military Demarcation Line (MDL) incursions as provocations. Amid escalating military tensions on the Korean Peninsula due to ongoing fortification work along the border and the resumption of anti-South propaganda broadcasts, diplomatic confrontations between the two Koreas over the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) landmine explos
  
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• Meta put out an ambitious roadmap to Muse monetization after strong quarter and guide

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• Meta ordered to pay $25bn in user data privacy case

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  A judge in the US state of New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion (€22.2bn) after a jury found last month that the social media giant had deceived users in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The ruling comes two months after Meta agreed to pay $18bn to settle claims brought by 48 other states, including allegations tied to Cambridge Analytica. Meta called the case a "a tax on speech". "This ruling... makes it all but impossible to do business in the state of New Mexico,
  
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• Kuwait-flagged tanker with 21 Indian seafarers hit near Strait of Hormuz, crew safe

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
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• Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall says the Ukraine war, not the Iran war, has caused high diesel prices

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall said Wednesday that Ukraine’s war with Russia — and not the U.S. war with Iran — was to blame for high diesel prices that have imperiled his party’s control of Congress in the midterm elections. The answer, delivered during a debate with Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton, aligned Marshall with President...
  
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• Inside India newsletter: Asia’s hottest data center market aims to quell concerns over water and ...

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  India is grappling with growing public anger against data centers that pose a threat to its ambitions to host the whole world's data. ......
  
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• Indian national injured in attack at Saudi Arabia\u2019s Shaybah oilfield

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• How an Orthodox Jewish scholar found an unexpected home among the Amish

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  JERUSALEM (RNS) — When Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, an Orthodox Jew who lives in Jerusalem, first arrived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2011 to research Amish communities, she had only visited the U.S. once and could barely speak English. But after years of researching women in Israel’s Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, community, one of her academic advisers, Yehiel Limor, “basically forced me to read about the Amish,” she told RNS. “I tried to negotiate and say, ‘look, I don’t have
  
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• Hail the size of golf balls pummels parts of Arizona as rare storm moves through the West

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  PHOENIX (AP) — Hail the size of golf balls and damaging wind gusts pounded northern and central Arizona in a rare storm blowing through, bringing with it tornado risks and possible flash floods. The National Weather Service issued multiple...
  
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• Fraternity suspended at University of Arizona after female student reported assault by 2 men

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  The University of Arizona has suspended a fraternity’s activities after a female student alleged two men sexually assaulted her at the fraternity’s house in August. The Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter at the southern Arizona school was already on probation, but the university said it has now imposed an activities suspension, stating the fraternity poses a risk to the university community. An investigation into the allegations continues. “It has been determined that your organization presents a s
  
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• Fire forces evacuations at senior living facility in Mississippi

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  CLINTON, Miss. (AP) — A fire broke out at a senior living facility in Mississippi on Wednesday evening, forcing residents to evacuate. There were no immediate reports of injuries at Brookdale Clinton, but authorities were not yet certain whether all the residents were accounted for. The “majority of the building is...
  
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• Europe's Only Penicillin Factory Faces Chinese Competition Threat

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  Chinese low-cost antibiotics are rapidly encroaching on the European market, pushing Europe’s only penicillin factory—producing everything from raw materials to finished products—to the brink of closure. As Chinese imports account for nearly double the share of the EU’s penicillin raw material imports in six years, concerns grow that overreliance on Chinese supply for essential medicines could allow supply chains to be weaponized in future diplomatic or trade conflicts. According to Reut
  
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• Dusky shark that became a tourist draw while trapped in a South Korean canal finally swims free

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A large dusky shark trapped for more than a month in a canal finally swam out to sea Wednesday as officials in the South Korean port city of Busan succeeded in the third attempt to free the animal. Officials used a floating platform to herd the 3-meter-long (9.8-foot) female dusky shark, nicknamed Bukangi after the...
  
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• Democrats warn of Russian misinformation in US midterms

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  Democrats in the US have said that they received an intelligence briefing that Russia has been waging a misinformation campaign against their candidates running in next month's midterm elections. The ⁠comments by Senator Mark Warner and Representative Jim Himes come as Republican President Donald Trump has in recent weeks eased economic sanctions on Russia and increased pressure on Ukraine to end its fight against Russian...
  
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• Bukele says military operation launched to rescue Salvadorans held by gangs in Haiti

  22-10-2026 05:29 via WN.com - World News
  SAN SALVADOR (AP) — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said Wednesday he had launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs in Haiti, warning of a more forceful response if they are not released alive and unharmed. Gangs in Haiti had opened fire on an armored vehicle three days earlier the first major attack since an international gang suppression force began operating in the violence-wracked Caribbean country. The four Salvadoran soldiers h
  
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• US Postal Service releases postage stamp featuring Diwali

  22-10-2026 05:05 via WN.com - World News
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• Supreme Court rebuffs Trump administration restrictions on medical care for transgender inmates

  22-10-2026 05:05 via WN.com - World News
  The Supreme Court has rejected a Trump...
  
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• Stephen Hubbard, US schoolteacher captured by Russia in 2022, freed by Putin in goodwill gesture

  22-10-2026 05:05 via WN.com - World News
  Russia freed...
  
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