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• India will ask private fuel retailers to end sales rationing

  01-10-2026 16:28 via article.wn.com
  India has not revised retail diesel and gasoline prices since May despite rising oil prices ......
  
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• U.S. military says 4 killed in latest strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  The U.S. military said it attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, killing four people, as the Trump administration continues its yearlong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack brings the number of...
  
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• US importer recalls 37,000 squishy toys due to ‘deadly ingestion hazard’

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  The water beads in the recalled toys expand larger than permitted. ......
  
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• To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species...
  
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• Sonexay Siphandone elected as Lao NA president

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  VIENTIANE, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- The second ordinary session of the 10th Lao National Assembly elected Sonexay Siphandone,...
  
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• Skull fractures suggest servants of Egypt’s ancient kings were sacrificed

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Study of remains taken from royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab appears to confirm early Egyptologist’s theory...
  
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• She bought 3 Abbott shares for $180 in 1935; after her death at 100, her $7 million fortune went to help college students

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Grace Groner lived a modest life in Lake Forest, Illinois, despite eventually accumulating a fortune worth more than $7 million. She never married or had children, worked for more than four decades as a secretary at Abbott Laboratories and remained closely connected to Lake Forest College, where she graduated in 1931. When she died in January 2010 at the age of 100, she left her entire estate to a foundation benefiting students at her alma mater. Her fortune had grown from three Abbott shares sh
  
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• Russian lab worker dies of ‘unknown’ virus as hundreds placed in quarantine

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Emergency quarantine protocols are in place in Irkutsk after a suspected laboratory accident...
  
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• Patriots defeat rival Bills

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Drake Maye hid a smile as he hugged his coach after a surprising victory in Buffalo, where his New England Patriots have dominated for so long. ......
  
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• Nearly 200 isolated after lab worker dies of suspected plague in Siberia

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  A lab worker at an...
  
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• MLB: Brewers walk off Padres

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  MILWAUKEE — Down to their final...
  
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• ‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m ...

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  It is one of the world’s finest collections, full of Monets, Miros and Picassos. But is the great Swiss architect’s extension for the Beyeler Foundation a worthy addition? Or is it a bit luxury boutique?...
  
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• Golf: Smotherman wins by 2

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Hanging in the pro shop of the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex is a recent addition. It is the signed caddie bib from The American Express in Palm Springs, California, of the local boy who made good. That’s where Austin Smotherman ......
  
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• Glance: Valkyries top Aces in Game 1

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  SAN FRANCISCO — Gabby Williams is all too familiar with the Las Vegas Aces in the playoffs. Her last three WNBA postseason appearances ended in defeats to the Aces, and four of her five overall. ......
  
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• Former Prince Andrew takes police to court over Epstein files arrest, Telegraph says

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Oct 4 - King Charles' younger brother, Andrew...
  
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• FBI Director Kash Patel gets engaged to longtime girlfriend Alexis Wilkins

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Photos posted to...
  
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• Exiled separatist leader is likely to return to a very different Catalonia

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Nine years on from a failed independence push, former president Carles Puigdemont will find times have changed...
  
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• Brazil heads to runoff as Bolsonaro leads Lula in first round of presidential election

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Liberal Party makes major gains as the right strengthens grip on Congress...
  
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• Ball in UK’s court: EU ambassador says Brussels will be ‘ready to engage‘ after country ...

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Jukka Salovaara, who served in London during Cool Britannia era, will be ‘very close’ to negotiations as Burnham government resets relations with EU...
  
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• ‘125 million voted in India’s Presidential Election’: Trump’s faux pas ahead of Brazil polls

  05-10-2026 07:10 via article.wn.com
  Trump wrote on Truth...
  
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• Who is Wanying ‘Heather’ Zhang? California realtor arrested at LAX for allegedly spying for China

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  Wanying ‘Heather’...
  
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• Who is Alexis Wilkins, country singer engaged to FBI Director Kash Patel

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  FBI Director Kash Patel...
  
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• What will the next leader of the UN need to get the job done in an increasingly complex world?

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On Jan. 1, the next United Nations secretary-general will take over an aging organization still controlled by World War II powers. What will the world need from that person? Once a major player in solving conflicts and crises around the world, the 81-year-old institution has been sidelined from the top table in trying to end the wars in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza. And its precarious financial situation — caused mainly by the billions of dollars the United States owe
  
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• What will the next leader of the UN need to get the job done in ...

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On Jan. 1, the next United Nations secretary-general will take over an aging organization still controlled by World War II powers. What will the world need from that person? Once a major player in solving conflicts and crises around the world, the 81-year-old institution has been sidelined from the top table in trying to end the wars in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza. And its precarious financial situation — caused mainly by the billions of dollars the United States owe
  
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• US military says latest strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean kills 4

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, killing four people, as the Trump administration continues its yearlong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The...
  
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• US Coast Guard suspends search for people on crashed medical aircraft

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  Officials said four Canadians and two citizens of Bermuda were on the plane. ......
  
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• U.S. accuses California woman of spying for China, surveilling Taiwan leader's son

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  The Justice Department said ‌Zhang travelled to Seattle in 2025 at the ​direction of Chinese officials and subsequently sent them photos, video and license plate information of ⁠the Taiwanese leader's son and his family ......
  
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• Researcher dies of ‘unknown infection’ at Russia's plague lab, at least 200 quarantined: Here's what ...

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  A researcher at Russia’s Anti-Plague...
  
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• On a remote Greek island, empty classrooms signal a crisis across Europe

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  KALAMOS, Greece (AP) — Chryssa Ntalaka’s classroom has become an object lesson in subtraction. The sole teacher in the last school on the idyllic Greek island of Kalamos has a shorter list of students every fall. This year, just two. On Sept. 23, the sixth graders sat at Ntalaka’s table beneath the whiteboard, in front of rows of unused desks and benches. When they head to middle school on Greece’s mainland next year, her school will be mothballed. Toys and picture books
  
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• Merz unveils fresh military aid in Kyiv

  05-10-2026 06:50 via article.wn.com
  Germany will not be intimidated into dropping its...
  
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