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• California developers eye golf courses for data centre projects

  04-11-2026 05:06 via WN.com - World News
  Computer servers are less thirsty than golf courses, say developers. ......
  
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• Paraguay president resigns amid banking scandal

  05-11-2026 22:21 via WN.com - World News
  Paraguayan President Santiago Pena announced his resignation on Thursday after the takeover of a bank linked to him blocked millions of people from accessing their money. Protests have roiled the South American nation after its central bank took control of Ueno Bank on Tuesday, citing a severe capital shortfall. Opposition lawmakers on Wednesday submitted a request to impeach Pena over the...
  
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• Iran's top diplomat speaks with Gulf leaders about tensions, and other Mideast news

  05-11-2026 22:20 via WN.com - World News
  Iran’s top diplomat has spoken with Persian...
  
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• Trump complains as Democrats savour US election success

  05-11-2026 22:16 via WN.com - World News
  US President Donald Trump has criticised midterm election results as the Democratic Party looks set to gain another Senate seat in Mississippi, underlining the heavy defeat dealt to Republicans. The electorate overwhelmingly chose to hand control of Congress to Democrats, turning their backs on the decade-long Trump era and the Republican Party. On social media, the president hit out at the still-undecided race to fill a senate seat in Alaska, describing it as unfair, and saying the votes for tw
  
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• California governor commuting all death sentences in state

  05-11-2026 22:16 via WN.com - World News
  California Governor Gavin Newsom has said that he was commuting all death sentences across the state to life imprisonment, in a move that will affect 548...
  
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• Song Young-gil's U.S. Election Remarks Risk Diplomatic Space

  05-11-2026 22:14 via WN.com - World News
  In the U.S. midterm elections held on the 3rd, the Democratic Party achieved a landslide victory, securing majorities in both the Senate and House of Representatives for the first time in 20 years. Song Young-gil, a Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker and special advisor for peace diplomacy to President Lee Jae Myung, wrote on Facebook on the 4th, “I extend my congratulations to the newly elected U.S. Democratic Party members. Longtime friend Rep. Brad Sherman has become a 16-term congressman.
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. Lawmaker Urges South Korea to Align with U.S. on CCP Issues

  05-11-2026 22:14 via WN.com - World News
  John Moolenaar, a Republican congressman and chairman of the House Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, told this newspaper on the 5th, “The ROK and the U.S. have a long-standing alliance that has brought...
  
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• 6 dead in Brooklyn house fire that took hours to douse

  05-11-2026 22:11 via WN.com - World News
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• Meghan Markle’s brother named person of interest in dad’s sex crime investigation

  05-11-2026 22:10 via WN.com - World News
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• US escalates economic campaign against Cuba and targets China-based suppliers

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  The Trump administration on Thursday escalated its economic campaign against Cuba, issuing a determination that clears the path for U.S. sanctions on several crucial sectors of the island’s economy while also targeting Chinese-based suppliers to Havana’s military forces. The sanctions are part...
  
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• Seeds, preserved hair in tomb point to oldest signs of cannabis high 2,800 years ago, study suggests

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  GENEVA (AP) — People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought — at least 2,800 years ago, a new study suggests. Archaeologists who led a dig at a monumental tomb in Siberia said they turned up evidence of the earliest known use of cannabis for psychoactive purposes. The findings point to cannabis consumption at least 300 years earlier than previously known use in neighboring China. Ancient drug use has long intrigued scholars. The Greek historian Herodotus wrot
  
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• New Zealand votes in an election expected to be tight after a tense campaign

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s election results will be announced Saturday after a tense campaign left the main contenders neck and neck with no clear route to victory for either, as voters evaluated three years of conservative rule. Analysts don’t expect a simple majority for either the governing coalition, led by the center-right National party, or the opposition bloc led by center-left Labour. The uncertainty may reflect voter discontent about both major parties as economi
  
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• Kurdish power-sharing deal cracks as one of two rival parties quits northern Iraq’s government

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — One of Iraq’s two main Kurdish parties withdrew from the government in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region Thursday, threatening to form a rival administration as a long-running power struggle between the parties intensified. The political crisis comes at a delicate moment for the region, after the withdrawal of the last U.S. forces from the area and amid fears of a new escalation in the U.S.-Iran war that could again spill over into Iraq. Bafel Talabani, lead
  
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• Heavy rains flood towns, dozens rescued on Georgia-Tennessee border

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  McCAYSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Thunderstorms caused record flooding overnight in twin towns straddling the Georgia-Tennessee border, submerging some buildings to their rooflines on Thursday as emergency responders rescued dozens of people. With floodwaters receding by afternoon, residents returned to find stores and other businesses left in disarray by surging waters and piles of debris. The storms dropped heavy rain across a mountainous area that drains into the Toccoa River between McCaysville, Geo
  
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• Harmeet Dhillon exits after radical overhaul of Justice Department's Civil Rights Division

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative attorney who oversaw a radical reshaping of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, celebrated the mass departures of career lawyers and spearheaded sweeping investigations into elite universities, said Thursday that she had resigned from her post. Dhillon has been a powerful and divisive figure inside President Donald Trump’s Justice Department since her confirmation last year as assistant attorney general, where she dramatically c
  
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• Democrats' victory was clear. The party's future is not

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The sweeping victories that led Democrats to their largest congressional majority in decades did little to resolve the party’s long-term debate over its identity and what it should stand for. Tuesday’s winners spanned the ideological spectrum and ranged from establishment veterans to political outsiders. Progressives achieved breakthrough victories in Senate races in Michigan and Maine, along with wins in competitive House races. More moderate Democrats scored stunning up
  
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• Democratic socialist Nithya Raman ousts embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nithya Raman, a little-known Los Angeles City Council member backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, has defeated Mayor Karen Bass, an upset that will alter the trajectory of the nation’s second-largest city. The India-born Raman’s upstart campaign marked a generational shift at City Hall as voters followed the lead of New York, where democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was elected last year. Raman, though, never attracted the same level of national attention and
  
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• Declaration of final vote results in Serbia paves way for student movement to form government

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s election authorities on Thursday declared the final results of the Oct. 25 vote, paving the way for the formation of a new Parliament and government that will be dominated by the student movement that defeated former strongman Aleksandar Vucic ‘s government. The Students’ List group will have 140 lawmakers in the 250-member assembly while Vucic’s Serbian...
  
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• Court weighs Trump's appeal in the Stormy Daniels hush money case

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York appeals judges grilled President Donald Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors Thursday about his bid to erase his historic hush money conviction, but the court didn’t signal how or when it would rule. The judges delved into legal theory, presidential immunity and some evidence in Trump’s 2024 trial. Convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to obscure a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels, Trump denies any wrongdoing. He has turne
  
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• Citibank office shooter targeted company over a $2,500 debt collection, Florida sheriff says

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A gunman who killed a woman before being fatally shot by a security guard at Citibank’s sprawling office complex in Tampa targeted the campus because he was angry over a $2,500 debt collection, a sheriff said Thursday. About three hours before...
  
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• California Gov. Newsom says he will commute all death sentences in state to life without parole

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he’ll change all 548 death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole, though the state Supreme Court will have the final say in hundreds of those cases. Newsom’s decision comes as he prepares to leave office after eight years and considers a run for president. The Democrat, who’s long been opposed to the death penalty, placed a moratorium on executions in California in 2019. His lat
  
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• A man named Chris will be New Zealand's next prime minister, whichever party wins the election

  05-11-2026 22:08 via WN.com - World News
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand is choosing a new government in a national election that concludes Saturday. But one outcome is already known: The next prime minister will be a man named Chris. The leaders of the nation’s two biggest political parties bear that name. Center-right National is helmed by Christopher Luxon, who has been prime minister since the 2023 election, when his party ousted center-left Labour, led by Chris Hipkins. Both leaders in the “battle of the Chrises�
  
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• Senate Democrats will not let Trump put a 'right-winger' on the Supreme Court, Schumer vows

  05-11-2026 22:07 via WN.com - World News
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is vowing that Democrats will not allow President Donald Trump to put “a right-winger” on the Supreme Court once they take power, raising the possibility that his party could block a presidential nominee if there is a vacancy in the next two years. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Schumer would not say if he would hold a Supreme Court vacancy open until after the next presidential election, as former Senate Repu
  
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• Rockefeller Center Christmas tree headed to New York City

  05-11-2026 22:07 via WN.com - World News
  NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was cut down on Thursday and will head to New York City to usher in the holiday season. The 76-foot-tall...
  
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• Meat-packer JBS faces complaints filed in Europe over alleged links to illegal Amazon deforestation

  05-11-2026 22:07 via WN.com - World News
  MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — A coalition of environmental and human rights advocacy groups has filed 14 legal complaints with European financial regulators and prosecutors against JBS, the world’s largest meat company, along with its banks, investment managers and advisers, accusing them of facilitating money laundering linked to alleged illegal Amazon deforestation. In the filings, the group said Wednesday that JBS laundered proceeds connected to allegedly illegal deforestation in its Brazilian be
  
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• North Korea's fake IT worker scheme takes dangerous turn as new threats emerge every day

  05-11-2026 22:03 via WN.com - World News
  What began as a scheme to generate cash for North Korea by deploying fake IT workers in American companies has now...
  
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• Melania Trump: Oleshky ceasefire is a ‘spark’ for 'more enduring' peace between Ukraine, Russia

  05-11-2026 22:03 via WN.com - World News
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• What is ueno bank and how did it trigger Paraguay's political crisis?

  05-11-2026 22:00 via WN.com - World News
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• Trump ally Harmeet Dhillon to quit her DOJ role after Democrats’ midterm wins, reports say

  05-11-2026 22:00 via WN.com - World News
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• Thomas Massie to force vote on new Epstein files bill when the US House returns ...

  05-11-2026 22:00 via WN.com - World News
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