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• Flávio Bolsonaro Leads First Round, Faces Lula in Runoff

  05-10-2026 17:25 via article.wn.com
  Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL) is leading in the first round of Brazil's presidential election held on October 4 (local time). According to...
  
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• Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack Aden airport

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  ADEN — Yemen’s internationally recognised government has accused the Houthis of firing ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones at Aden's international airport.In a statement on Wednesday, the Ministry of Transport said the Houthis targeted the runway and passenger terminal at the airport with at least two ballistic missiles and several...
  
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• Valkyrae was honoured by a Los Angeles health clinic in 2025 as more than 200 creator-industry leaders helped raise $137,000 for medical care for people in need

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Valkyrae was honored by Saban Community Clinic in Los Angeles on Sept. 8, 2025, at its third annual Creators in Action fundraiser. The streamer, whose real name is Rachell Hofstetter, shared the recognition with pocket.watch founder and CEO, Chris M. Williams. More than 200 leaders from the digital and creator community attended, and the night raised over $137,000 for the clinic, the largest provider of free and reduced-cost healthcare in Los Angeles.Saban picks creators and executives to honor
  
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• U of T's October 7 Vigil Decision Left the Moral Question Unanswered

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  A university cited safety risks, not ethics, to stop an October 7 anniversary 'martyrs' event, and organizers' own explanation didn't resolve the dispute. ......
  
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• Turkish opposition stronghold falls in Erdogan's hands as Izmir mayor defects

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  The mayor of Izmir, a major Turkish city and the secular opposition's stronghold, joined President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party on Wednesday.In 2024, Cemil Tugay was elected as the mayor from the Republican People's Party (CHP) before...
  
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• The backstory: From the 'Promised Land' to October 7 - the origin story of Israel-Palestine conflict

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Three years ago, Israel experienced one of the deadliest days in its modern history. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched a large-scale attack from Gaza, crossing the border and attacking Israel during a music festival.More than 1,200 people were killed and 251 people were taken hostage on October 7, 2023, according to the United Nations.The attack led Israel to launch a massive attack in Gaza that has since reshaped the region but remains unresolved.So, the question is why conflict
  
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• The astonishing fall of a German spymaster

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Not even John le Carré could have dreamt up a story like the one swirling around his former friend August Hanning. The spy novelist met Hanning regularly during his tenure, from 1998-2005, as head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). In his memoir, Le Carré described the gaunt BND head as “courtesy itself”, yet their friendship fell apart after modern Germany’s greatest-ever intelligence failure: the 9/11 plot hatched
  
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• Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities kill at least 21

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv and a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 21 civilians, including four children, and wounding around 60 in Moscow's latest devastating barrage, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine had anticipated the attack, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warning the previous day that intelligence services had concluded that Russia was building up for a "massive" strike. Although Ukraine knew about the looming attack, which coincided
  
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• ‘Russia pursuing deliberate strategy of terror’: EU chief sends €1.24 billion to Ukraine

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  EU president Ursula von der Leyen said Russia was pursuing a “deliberate strategy of terror” as the European Commission announced it had disbursed €1.24 billion ($1.4 billion) to Ukraine for drones, drone interceptors, drone ammunition and missiles.“Russia is pursuing a deliberate strategy of terror. To protect people and infrastructure, Europe is stepping up. Others must step up their support too,” von der Leyen said in a statement.The funding is part of the €9
  
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• Nobel chemistry duo solve molecule single handedness

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai have won the Nobel chemistry prize for solving the mystery of why only one version of some molecules' mirror-image forms appears in nature. The discovery is decisive for the development of pharmaceuticals. Like hands, where humans have both a left hand and a right hand, all amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the proteins in the body's cells. The other is rarely found...
  
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• New Research Details ‘Traumatic Invalidation’ in Post-October 7 Jewish Life

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  A peer-reviewed study of 733 U.S. Jewish adults examines how dismissal of Jewish grief and fear after October 7 was associated with psychological distress. ......
  
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• Nepal ends search for thousands of flood victims. leaving some angry and others relieved

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  The families of thousands missing after...
  
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• NASA says Russia, China could join Artemis Accords if they align with principles

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Russia and China could one day join the US-led Artemis Accords on space exploration if they come to share its principles, but they do not today, NASA's deputy administrator said Wednesday. "If one day, Russia and China were like-minded in those principles, which we don't see them as that right now, then there would be a possibility to join the Artemis Accords," Matt Anderson told reporters at the International Astronautical Congress in Antalya. Anderson said the 76 countries that have signed the
  
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• Michael Aronovici: Why More Locations Is Not the Win Franchising Thinks It Is

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Michael Aronovici, President of Interaction Restaurants Group, says the industry's habit of counting locations misses what actually makes a brand worth owning. Montreal, Quebec, Canada - October 7, 2026 - Open the standard franchise playbook and the goal is almost always the same: add units, add them fast, and let scale do the rest. Growth gets measured in store counts and new territories signed. Few people stop to ask whether every one of those locations is actually making money for the person
  
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• Man charged in killing of British ex-politician tried to break into Farage's home

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  A prosecutor says a man accused of killing former British politician Ann Widdecombe allegedly tried to break into Nigel Farage's home about a year earlier ......
  
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• Knife attack at Polish school leaves 7 injured; 19-year-old student arrested

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Polish police have arrested a 19-year-old man after a knife attack at a vocational school in Ostrołęka, north of Warsaw, left at least seven people injured on Wednesday, according to police and local authorities.The provincial police headquarters said the man was detained after...
  
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• INTERVIEW – Three years into Gaza war, ‘genocide is not over,’ UN rapporteur Albanese says

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Francesca Albanese says destruction continues despite ceasefire, describing situation in Gaza as ‘beyond what words can say’UN expert welcomes...
  
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• Hardline Iranian MPs move to impeach foreign minister over UN talks

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  TEHRAN — A group of hardline Iranian MPs has filed an impeachment motion against Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi over his talks with US officials on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last month.The MPs behind the motion, led by Amirhossein Sabeti of the hardline Paydari Front, argue that Araghchi's meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff on 22 September was conducted without authorisation from Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei or coordination with the Supreme National Security Coun
  
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• France suspends stun grenades after teen loses hand during student protest in Lille

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  France has suspended the use of stun grenades during student protests after a 15-year-old boy lost his hand in an incident involving the device earlier this week.Interior minister Laurent Nuñez said he had ordered the suspension until the circumstances surrounding Monday's incident in Lens had been “clarified”. Protesters and officials have given different accounts of what happened.The decision comes as criticism grows over police tactics during demonstrations that have spread
  
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• France bans police from using stun grenades at student protests

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  PARIS — France on Wednesday suspended the use of stun grenades for policing student-led protests that have swept the country, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said, amid growing accusations of police brutality following several days of demonstrations nationwide.Nuñez said he had requested the pause until the facts of Monday's incident in which a student's hand was blown off had been "clarified", with conflicting accounts offered by protesters and officials.The announcement cam
  
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• Erdogan, Putin discuss Türkiye-Russia ties, Black Sea security

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed bilateral...
  
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• Beloved Arizona band inspired this new library card. How to get one

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  Jimmy Eat World praises Phoenix fans at Chase Field concert Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World was feeling the love at Chase Field when they shared a stage with My Chemical Romance in a huge Phoenix concert. Mesa Public Library has partnered with Jimmy Eat World on a limited-edition commemorative ticket-stub library card. The card was designed to recognize two milestones —...
  
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• Antonio Guterres sidesteps Kashmir question, flags UN Security Council’s ‘crisis of legitimacy’

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday avoided directly responding to a Pakistani journalist’s question on UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, instead highlighting what he described as a crisis of legitimacy and effectiveness within the council.Guterres was speaking at a joint press conference in Pakistan with deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar during his three-day official visit to the country.When asked about the Security Council’s reso
  
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• An Ohio neighbour removed a 15-foot white spruce while installing a new boundary fence; four years later, an appeals court upheld the finding that the cutting was reckless and fixed the damages at $11,523.87

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  A neighbour dispute in Whitehouse, Ohio, over a boundary fence and a 15-foot white spruce tree has ended with a clear message about the cost of cutting down someone else’s tree without permission. The Lucas County Court of Common Pleas found that Michael Meier acted recklessly when he removed the spruce in 2022 while installing a new fence, and ordered treble damages under Ohio’s tree-injury statute. On September 18, 2026, the Sixth District Court of Appeals upheld that finding and f
  
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• America already barred birth tourism. So what is US trying to stop now?

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  America is more than just a vacation destination for many expectant parents. Some travel to the country with the sole purpose of giving birth on American soil so their child can acquire US citizenship. But this practice has come under scrutiny in the United States, with the Trump administration taking steps to restrict birthright citizenship and curb birth tourism.In a video posted on Truth Social in May 2023, Trump said that if re-elected as president in the 2024 elections, he would sign an exe
  
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• A couple rescued two discarded cat paintings from a skip while walking their dog and hung them at home for years; after discovering they were original Louis Wain works, the pair sold at auction for £16,000

  07-10-2026 15:49 via article.wn.com
  What looked like two unwanted paintings in a skip turned out to be worth thousands of pounds. A couple came across the two cat paintings while walking their dog and decided to rescue them rather than leave them behind. They took the works home, eventually gave them to their daughter-in-law and later hung them on their own walls, unaware of who had painted them. Years later, curiosity led them to investigate the pictures, and they discovered a connection to Louis Wain, the British artist renowned
  
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• Whistleblower says Trump demanded FBI probe into protesters over a TikTok he saw

  07-10-2026 15:18 via article.wn.com
  The FBI opened preliminary investigations targeting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in Southern California, a former FBI intelligence official alleged in a whistleblower complaint, adding that she believed the move violated the law and agency policy. The investigations were opened in early 2025 in the early weeks of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown following demands from President Donald Trump and other administration officials, according to the disclosu
  
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• 'We will never forget them': European leaders commemorate victims of October 7 attack

  07-10-2026 15:18 via article.wn.com
  Politicians from across the political spectrum, from the far right to the pro-Palestinian left, joined together to mark the third anniversary of the massacre and pay tribute to nearly 1,200 Israelis who lost their lives ......
  
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• US strikes damaged 111 Iranian petrochemical, medical sites

  07-10-2026 15:18 via article.wn.com
  Tehran: Attacks by the United States military on Iran’s chemical industries destroyed 111 petrochemical and pharmaceutical facilities, Iran’s representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said. According to Iran’s Mehr News Agency, the representative, Hadi Farajvand, said US attacks damaged 60 petrochemical complexes, 44 pharmaceutical factories and seven pharmaceutical facilities in Iran. Farajvand said the damage was detrimental, disrupting supply
  
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• US loses 81 aircraft, drones worth $3.3 billion in Iran war, says report

  07-10-2026 15:18 via article.wn.com
  US loses 81 aircraft, drones worth $3.3 billion in Iran war, says report ......
  
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