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• U.S. Confirms Chinese Spaceplane in Orbit

  28-10-2026 07:14 via WN.com - World News
  The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officially confirmed in a report released on the 27th that a small space shuttle-shaped object photographed in space two years ago is an experimental reusable Chinese spaceplane currently in orbit. The newly released high-resolution photo of the object closely resembles the X-37B, a reusable spacecraft operated by the U.S. Space Force. The image was captured on May 28, 2024, by Maxar Technologies’ WorldView-3 satellite (now Vantor) from less than 90 k
  
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• Netanyahu Declares Victory, Urges Right-Wing Government

  28-10-2026 07:14 via WN.com - World News
  Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has effectively declared victory in the general election. According to the Times of Israel, TOI, and others on October 28 (local time), Netanyahu stated at the Likud Party headquarters in Jerusalem around 3 a.m. that day,...
  
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• German Leaders Divide Asian Diplomacy

  28-10-2026 07:14 via WN.com - World News
  Germany’s president and chancellor have embarked on an unprecedented diplomatic schedule, splitting their visits to four Asian countries, including South Korea and China. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the symbolic head of state, began a five-day state visit to China on the 27th, while Friedrich Merz, the chancellor responsible for practical governance, started a tour of Singapore, Japan, and South Korea on the 26th. Analysts suggest this reflects a strategy to...
  
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• US health chief RFK Jr faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks

  28-10-2026 07:12 via WN.com - World News
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• Who was Neeraj Yadav? Three-time Asian Para Games gold medallist dies by suicide

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  Neeraj Yadav, one of India's leading para-athletes, was found dead at a flat on Tuesday night, leaving the para-sports community in shock. The 42-year-old, a three-time Asian Para Games gold medallist, allegedly died by suicide. He is suspected to have consumed poison.A postmortem examination was underway at Delhi’s GTB Hospital on Wednesday.Who was Neeraj...
  
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• UN holds annual vote on condemning US embargo on Cuba as tensions spill into public

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is set to vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning the decades-long U.S. economic embargo on Cuba as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign to undermine Cuba’s socialist government, including by threatening military intervention. The annual exercise aimed at calling out the U.S. government’s “maximum pressure policy” has been put before the U.N. General Assembly for the past 34 years, and each time the resolution has received overwhe
  
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• Trump's cure for Republicans' midterm woes is more Trump. Will it work?

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to play make-believe with his supporters. “Just close your eyes,” he tells them, “and pretend I’m on the ballot.” It’s a typically self-involved appeal from someone who has been the center of the nation’s political gravity for more than a decade. Now, he’s finishing the midterms with a cross-country blitz of campaign rallies that allow him to bask in applause when he’s otherwise profoundly unpopular. In a year marked by the war w
  
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• Sleeping beside daughter, Delhi govt employee stabbed multiple times: How wife, her gym trainer lover plotted attack

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  GHAZIABAD: Shashank Kanthariya thought his wife was leaving home every morning to go to the gym. But police suspect that the routine became part of a conspiracy to kill him after he discovered her alleged affair with her gym trainer and decided to move out of the city.On Monday morning, while the 35-year-old Delhi government employee was asleep beside his young daughter at their home in Vasundhara, the trainer allegedly entered the house through an unlocked door and stabbed him repeatedly.Kantha
  
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• Republicans emphasize transgender ads, putting cultural issues over voters' economic anxiety

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year’s midterm elections, betting that struggling GOP candidates can leverage the divisive cultural issue to overcome voters’ concerns about President Donald Trump’s leadership and the state of the economy. The massive investment through Oct. 25 produced about 217,000 TV spots nationwide and exceeds the amount Republicans s
  
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• Oracle expands Nvidia AI chip deal, adds Google and other suppliers

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  Oracle has expanded its cloud AI chip deal with Jensen Huang-led Nvidia while adding AI chips from other suppliers, including Google and Cerebras Systems, as it seeks to offer customers more options for running artificial intelligence workloads. Oracle and Nvidia said the cloud company would expand its...
  
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• Netanyahu vs Gadi Eisenkot: Israel exit polls point to a clash between PM, ex-army chief

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  Former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot has emerged as a key challenger to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with exit polls suggesting that his opposition bloc is running neck and neck with the incumbent’s camp in Israel’s election.Projections by Israeli television networks showed neither side securing a clear parliamentary majority, leaving the formation of the next government uncertain. Kan 11 and Channel 13 projected both blocs at 51 seats, while Channel 12...
  
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• Israel election results: With no clear majority in sight, what could happen next?

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  Israel’s election has produced an uncertain political picture, with exit polls initially projecting a close contest between prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc and the opposition led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot. Neither camp was projected to secure the 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-member Knesset.As counting progressed, partial results published by the Central Elections Committee showed Netanyahu’s bloc with 57 seats and the anti-Netanyahu bloc with 47
  
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• In 2010, a Texas father opened an accessible theme park inspired by his daughter; Morgan’s Wonderland has since welcomed more than 3.8 million guests from 50 states and 123 countries

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  Many mainstream theme parks emphasize thrill, capacity and spectacle, features that can create barriers for some disabled visitors. For families with a child who uses a wheelchair, is sensitive to sound, or cannot speak, a theme-park visit can become an organizational challenge. Although there are arrangements at the parks to accommodate such visitors, there is usually nothing that is pre-planned according to their requirements. In San Antonio, Texas, one individual decided to create something n
  
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• In 1964, an Oregon father began hand-building a fairy-tale park after a family road trip; Enchanted Forest opened in 1971 and now draws more than 100,000 visitors a year

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  Beside a major interstate in Oregon, a castle-shaped road sign topped by a nursery rhyme character marks the exit for a family-run theme park. Drivers who take the exit find a wooded hillside with shaded paths and along those paths sit hand-built figures from fairy tales and nursery rhymes, along with later additions such as rides and a western-themed town. Unlike the large corporate parks, it began as the spare-time project of a single state employee who built...
  
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• 'I call him Muhammed': Trump attacks Michigan candidate Abdul, suggests daily metal-detector tests to sit in Senate

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  US President Donald Trump has intensified his attacks on Michigan democratic senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, claiming that the politician wants the United States to adopt Sharia law and vowing to oppose such a move.Speaking at a campaign rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday, Trump accused El-Sayed of having links to...
  
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• Cyclone Arnab hits India's Andhra Pradesh state as tens of thousands evacuate

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Cyclone Arnab crossed India ‘s Andhra Pradesh coast in the early hours of Wednesday, officials said, a day after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from vulnerable coastal areas in the eastern state. Prakhar Jain, head of the state’s disaster management authority, said the cyclone had weakened slightly before landfall but brought heavy to very...
  
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• An alleged $65 million scam targeting elderly Americans used India-based call centres and fake rental addresses to collect cash; US prosecutors say YouTube scam hunters helped identify suspects as guilty pleas emerged

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  A multinational fraud scheme that allegedly cost elderly Americans about $65 million relied on India-based scam call centres, fake identities and short-term rental properties to collect cash from victims, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ). In an update published on October 26, prosecutors said the final defendants among 25 people arrested in the case had pleaded guilty, marking a significant development in an investigation that was also aided by YouTube creators who confronted susp
  
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• A Virginia family’s land held a 200-year-old dam once used by a five-story grain mill; removal reopened 30 miles of stream, and mussel beds began returning

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  Old mill dams are easy to overlook on farmland. Often, they linger on private property long after the mill they were built for is gone. The people who live near them may never consider their effect on the river. In southwest Virginia, there was such a dam on one family’s farm. The mill it once powered had been long gone, but the dam and its effect on the river system remained.A dam and five-story mill built between 1818 and 1834 on the Bowen family’s landThe US Fish and Wildlife Service repo
  
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• A self-taught Birmingham teenager built a gesture-controlled robotic hand for about £30; the invention attracted 2.6 million views and requests from students worldwide

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  A self-taught teenager from Birmingham has attracted 2.6 million views on TikTok after building a gesture-controlled robotic hand for about £30. Suleymaan Khan, 17, developed the device using camera recognition and code he wrote himself, with materials including foamboard, card and hot glue. According to Hyphen, hundreds of people have contacted him to learn how to recreate the invention, while students around the world have sought his advice on robotics projects. Khan is now working on step-by
  
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• A grandmother raising her two grandchildren says their mother banged on her door and threatened to kill her, but a judge ruled she was not ‘family’ and could not seek a protection order; an October 19 appeals court ruling in Washington DC, said she ca

  28-10-2026 07:07 via WN.com - World News
  A grandmother raising her two grandchildren can seek a civil protection order against their biological mother after a Washington, DC, appeals court ruled that their relationship qualifies as familial under local law. In 'Allen v. Whitehead', the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s dismissal of Fonda Allen’s petition, holding that her blood relationship to the children and her legal custody of them, considered together, were sufficient to establish the required fa
  
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• UAE President honours Indian pilot Smit Machchhar for bravery during flydubai mid-air attack

  28-10-2026 07:06 via WN.com - World News
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• Israel Election Results 2026 LIVE Updates: No clear winner in Israel as exit polls suggest rebuke for Netanyahu

  28-10-2026 07:06 via WN.com - World News
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• US military kills five in eastern Pacific strike on suspected drug-trafficking vessel

  28-10-2026 07:04 via WN.com - World News
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• Halima Salman convicted of receiving ISIS military training in Syria, faces 10 years in prison

  28-10-2026 07:04 via WN.com - World News
  A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Halima Salman...
  
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• Xavier Cabrera: 15-year-old boy goes missing in Georgia after leaving Sprayberry High School

  28-10-2026 07:00 via WN.com - World News
  Xavier Cabrera is believed to have gone missing after leaving Sprayberry High School. ......
  
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• Victor Julian Duque: FBI puts Colombian on most-wanted list for alleged drug-money laundering

  28-10-2026 07:00 via WN.com - World News
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• U.S. Warns Gulf of Possible Short, Intense Renewal of Iran War After Midterms

  28-10-2026 07:00 via WN.com - World News
  There are new signs that...
  
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• Trump jokes $5,000 would buy only ‘a hamburger and maybe dessert’ at Mar-a-Lago amid affordability push

  28-10-2026 07:00 via WN.com - World News
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• Trump and Talarico Offer Texas Split Screen With Dueling Rallies Just Miles Apart

  28-10-2026 07:00 via WN.com - World News
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