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• China proposes export controls on solar-manufacturing technologies

  18-10-2026 10:14 via WN.com - World News
  Analysts say China is seeking to preserve its dominance as India tries to build up domestic manufacturing ‌and shake off reliance on China ......
  
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• World-renowned seabird scientist Bill Montevecchi remembered in Newfoundland

  03-11-2026 11:22 via WN.com - World News
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• Progress on trade talks is ‘encouraging,’ says Canadian industry group

  03-11-2026 11:22 via WN.com - World News
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• Zelenskyy to make unexpected visit to Berlin for talks with Merz – Europe live

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  Merz said the German push to increase defence spending was triggered by Zelenskyy and Trump’s meeting last year...
  
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• US midterm elections 2026 live: Americans go to the polls in referendum on Trump’s agenda

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  Polls open across the US where key Senate and House races will decide which party controls Congress for remainder of Donald Trump’s second term...
  
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• New Group review – schoolkids build human pyramids in bizarre Japanese horror-satire on conformity

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  Two outsider students at a super-strict high school find they are definitely not with the programme in Yûta Shimotsu’s body-bending sci-fi scarer...
  
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• Manipulation review – preposterous Da Vinci Code-esque thriller like being trapped in a Ferrero Rocher ad

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  Conspiracies and espionage abound as a secret society’s young initiate is sent to infiltrate the Catholic church for inexplicable reasons. Who knows what’s going on?...
  
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• Major Queensland hospital to close pathology labs amid potential formaldehyde exposure investigation

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  About 400 staff affected by closure at both Mater’s Brisbane and Springfield hospitals, with financial sustainability of pathology business a factor...
  
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• Honouring the departed: All Souls’ Day observed in India and Bangladesh – in pictures

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  Devotees gather in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and across India to observe All Souls’ Day, dedicated to remembering and honouring the dead. The occasion brings together members of the Christian community to offer prayers for departed loved ones and reflect on life, death and remembrance through faith and...
  
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• From the US midterms to the hard right in Britain, empathy has become a dirty ...

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  Around the world, virtues such as compassion and kindness are gathering dust, like old hymn books in a long-deserted church...
  
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• Deal finalised to remove Brexit checks on food and animal products

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  Agreement to ease rules on food imports and exports is now expected to come into force in first quarter of 2028...
  
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• Americans head to polls in midterm elections seen as referendum on Trump

  03-11-2026 11:18 via WN.com - World News
  Control of the Senate and House of Representatives, both currently held by the Republicans, is at stake...
  
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• Fridges pack up in Cyber incident

  03-11-2026 11:13 via WN.com - World News
  A cyber incident affected refrigeration systems at 13 stores operated by Irish supermarket chain SuperValu on Monday, as similar disruptions were reported across several European countries, raising concerns over the cybersecurity of food retail infrastructure. Musgrave Group, which owns SuperValu, said the incident was...
  
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• US midterm elections: What to watch as midterms become a referendum on Trump

  03-11-2026 11:11 via WN.com - World News
  On Tuesday, millions of Americans will vote in crucial midterm...
  
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• In Washington, scientists excluded elk from rainforest plots for 36 years; shrubs became 5 to ...

  03-11-2026 11:11 via WN.com - World News
  A comprehensive study conducted over 36 years in Washington's Olympic Peninsula...
  
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• Hackers are targeting something the world cannot do without: Food

  03-11-2026 11:11 via WN.com - World News
  A series of cyberattacks have affected supermarket refrigeration systems in...
  
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• Czech TV, radio workers strike against funding overhaul, warn of threat to independence

  03-11-2026 11:11 via WN.com - World News
  Czech public television and radio employees initiated a one-day...
  
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• World Bank Group Supports Marshall Islands To Respond To El Niño And Dengue Outbreak

  03-11-2026 11:10 via WN.com - World News
  Rapid financing will help protect communities and maintain critical services as the country responds to concurrent crises ......
  
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• Auckland International Buskers Festival 2027: Astounding Feats On City Streets

  03-11-2026 11:10 via WN.com - World News
  Taking place across four days during Auckland Anniversary Weekend from 12PM daily, the city will be transformed into a stage with lively performances which will wow audiences of all ages. ......
  
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• Will we miss Trump when he’s gone?

  03-11-2026 11:09 via WN.com - World News
  Whatever happens in the American mid-terms today, there are only two-and a-bit years remaining of Donald Trump as a politician. Will we miss him when he’s gone? Millions of words have been written about Trump, but for all that verbiage, are we any closer to getting a grip on him? Whatever your personal feelings, you must in honesty agree that he is an exceptional person, in the sense of being exceptionally peculiar. While we are all individual like snowflakes, Trump is surely the oddest of all
  
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• The French economy is in a terrible state

  03-11-2026 11:09 via WN.com - World News
  Some readers may not be familiar with French tycoon Patrick Drahi, save when a few years ago he briefly took a 24.5 per cent stake in BT Group via his international holding company Altice (he still owns Sotheby’s). His telecoms corporate empire is built on private commercial and leveraged debt to the tune of some $60 billion. It survives through aggressive financial engineering, loose loan covenants, transferring subsidiaries out of creditors’ reach and bellicose bondholder restructurings. I
  
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• US, Iran have made progress toward negotiated settlement, says Vance

  03-11-2026 11:08 via WN.com - World News
  WASHINGTON — US Vice President JD Vance said Monday that Washington has made “progress” in talks with Iran, saying he and President Donald Trump feel “pretty good” about reaching a negotiated settlement.“I actually just spoke with the president of the United States about an hour ago about this,” Vance told reporters. “Look, the president and I both feel pretty good about the prospects for potentially coming to a negotiated settlement. We’re going...
  
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• Tech losses weigh on global markets ahead of US midterm elections, while oil prices rise

  03-11-2026 11:08 via WN.com - World News
  HONG KONG (AP) — World shares fell and U.S. futures also declined Tuesday as investors awaited the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections. Oil prices climbed after the United States conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz. The outcome of Tuesday's vote could fundamentally reshape U.S. President Donald Trump's final two years in the White House. Republicans and Democrats are battling for control of Congress and key governors' offices at a time of widespread di
  
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• Russian bombing kills 26 people at aid center in southern Ukraine

  03-11-2026 11:08 via WN.com - World News
  KYIV — At least 26 people were killed after Russian bombs hit an aid distribution center and a neighboring shelter in southern Ukraine on Monday.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on X that strikes first targeted a school building used to distribute humanitarian aid and then took aim at a nearby shelter.“This is further proof that Russia wants no de-escalation,” Zelensky said.He posted a video showing a huge crater left after Monday's...
  
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• Myanmar drops extradition case against AmCham ex-board member, cancels Interpol red notice

  03-11-2026 11:08 via WN.com - World News
  BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar has dropped its case against a former American Chamber of Commerce board member and canceled an Interpol “red notice” for his arrest, saying that its investigation concluded that there wasn't enough evidence to support his extradition. Misfit Technologies CEO Munimul Islam was detained upon his arrival at the international airport in Barcelona, Spain, in late September at the request of Myanmar officials investigating a complaint by the AmCham Myanmar. Islam was begi
  
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• Hundreds of Bangladesh garment factories forced to close as wage protests turn violent

  03-11-2026 11:08 via WN.com - World News
  DHAKA — Garment workers in Bangladesh continued their violent protests on Monday for the second day in a row over their demand for higher pay, prompting authorities to deploy additional paramilitary forces after reports surfaced of vandalism and major roads being blocked.Hundreds of factories have been forced to close after days-long protests by workers demanding higher wages.Demonstrators clashed with law enforcement personnel in the capital’s Mirpur area, Ashulia, Gazipur and Narayanganj,
  
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• War widens in the Black Sea in a test of NATO red lines

  03-11-2026 11:06 via WN.com - World News
  LONDON/BUCHAREST, Nov 3 - After seven...
  
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• US strikes key Iranian island as Trump talks up prospects of peace deal

  03-11-2026 11:06 via WN.com - World News
  Both sides appear keen to move peace talks forward in hopes of bringing the war to an end. ......
  
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• Ukraine's Zelenskiy to visit Berlin on Tuesday, Germany's Merz says

  03-11-2026 11:06 via WN.com - World News
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• Spain readies aid for rail crash victims, transport minister to face lawmakers

  03-11-2026 11:06 via WN.com - World News
  MADRID, Nov 3 - Spanish Transport...
  
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