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• Iran says conveyed positions regarding U.S. response to proposed plan through Qatar

  04-10-2026 13:41 via article.wn.com
  TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Sunday the country has conveyed its positions through the Qatari mediator regarding the U.S. response to its proposed plan to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran conveyed a proposed seven-day plan to the United States on Sept. 22 to cease hostilities and reopen the waterway to...
  
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• See where Trump's $90 checks to 20 million seniors are going

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Trump said he plans to send $90 checks to more than 20 million seniors this month — his latest giveaway of government funds before the November midterm election. ......
  
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• Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Almost 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Siberia region after the death of a 28-year-old lab worker who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague, according to local media reports. While Russian authorities have not confirmed her exact cause of death, the country’s consumer welfare service said Sunday that the researcher at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk had died of “pneumonia of unknown etiology,” or origin. It said the “sanitary-epidemiolog
  
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• Russia hosts consultations on Afghanistan, including with a Taliban delegation

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Russia has hosted consultations on...
  
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• Romania reports 2 dead and 11 rescued after fire onboard a vessel in Black Sea

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Romanian authorities report that two people have died and 11 crew members were rescued after a commercial vessel caught fire in the Black Sea. The Coast Guard was alerted Monday morning about the fire on a vessel in Romania’s Exclusive ......
  
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• Police give investigation update after girl, 11, found dead in park

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  The girl was found dead in the park near the cricket ground in Elmley Castle ......
  
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• John Hauer agrees with Trump on this hot-button issue as Kansas Libertarian gears up for ...

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  John Hauer is running...
  
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• Israeli settlers race to reshape West Bank as election nears

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Surging settler violence and government-backed settlement expansion are transforming the territory under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. ......
  
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• Israel orders security review of incoming flights after co-pilot attack

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a review of “all aspects” of security of foreign civil flights to Israel. ......
  
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• GP warns against money-saving heating trick as UK weather turns cooler

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  The money-saving trick could help reduce bills, but may make things more difficult for certain people ......
  
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• German, US scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on optogenetics

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries on light and optogenetics that have helped understand how the brain works. The Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute medical university said Deisseroth, 54, Hegemann, 71, and Nagel, 73, were selected for their "discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics". Optogenetics "makes it possible to switch on, or off, the act
  
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• FBI says California woman spied for China on Taiwanese president’s son

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  The 34-year-old woman was arrested as she sought to board a flight to Shanghai from Los Angeles. ......
  
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• EXPLAINER | Suspected Iranian plot to attack UK’s Fairford airbase, used by US: What do ...

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  The US has removed its fleet of bombers from a British airbase a week after five men were arrested nearby on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts as part of a suspected Iranian plot, the details of which remain largely unexplained. Below is what we know so far:What happened? Police were called to RAF Fairford, 145km west of London, early on Sunday, September 27, and arrested five suspects who were released on bail a day later. A local farmer had called police, saying she saw three large white v
  
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• Dozens quarantined in Siberia after plague institute lab worker dies

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia has fallen ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, prompting authorities to quarantine dozens of people, and the head of Russia's health watchdog to fly to the Irkutsk region. The death has sparked public health fears on social media, but the authorities said on Monday the situation was under control. Plague is endemic to Siberia, location of the first known...
  
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• C.H. Robinson to Acquire RXO, Redefining the Future of Third-Party Logistics While Unlocking Significant Shareholder Value (Form 8-K) (CH Robinson Worldwide Inc)

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  ) C.H. Robinson to Acquire RXO, Redefining the Future of Third-Party Logistics While Unlocking Significant Shareholder Value • Expected to generate $300 million of net run-rate cost synergies within two years post-close by utilizing C.H. Robinson's proven Lean AI operating model to enhance productivity - driving profitability and creating shareholder value • Addition of complementary major North American third-party logistics business will improve network density and enhance penetratio
  
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• Business Combination Prospectus (Form 425) (CH Robinson Worldwide Inc)

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  ) UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 5, 2026 C.H. ROBINSON WORLDWIDE, INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 000-23189 41-1883630 (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) (Commission File Number) (IRS Employer Identification Number) 14701 Charlson Road Eden Prairie MN 55347
  
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• Boat collision on the Congo River killed at least 30 and dozens are missing, Congolese ...

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Two boats collided over the weekend...
  
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• Australia launches probe into FlyDubai co-pilot’s past, and other Mideast news

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Australian authorities launched a probe into an Omani FlyDubai co-pilot’s time in Australia after he was detained over an alleged attempt to seize an Israel-bound aircraft and crash it. Meanwhile, Israel bars the U.K. Green Party’s leader from entering the country, and ministers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey hold a trilateral defense pact meeting in Riyadh. Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Monday. Full coverage is available here. Australia and New Zealand prob
  
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• A Pentagon dispute 18 months ago was prelude to problems in Iran

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  The U.S. began bombing Yemen’s Houthis in 2025 despite concern over weapons stocks and unclear goals. The Iran-backed group is still bedeviling the region. ......
  
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• 40 Years of Bravery: Neerja Bhanot and Captain Smit Machchhar's Heroic Acts in Aviation Emergencies

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Four decades apart, two Indian aviation professionals found themselves at the centre of life-threatening emergencies in the skies. Neerja Bhanot and Captain Smit Machchhar faced very different situations, but both took crucial actions that helped protect passengers when their aircraft were in grave danger.Neerja’s courage saved livesOn September 5, 1986, Neerja Bhanot was the senior flight purser aboard Pan Am Flight 73 when four members of...
  
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• Bolsonaro and Lula head to runoff: 5 takeaways from Brazil’s election

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished first and second in the opening round of Brazil’s presidential election. They'll meet in a runoff on Oct. 25. ......
  
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• Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor takes police to court over search warrants

  05-10-2026 15:09 via article.wn.com
  Britain's former prince lodged a judicial review over the legality of search warrants in his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office in a case related to his Jeffrey Epstein ties. He has denied wrongdoing. ......
  
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• World leader apologizes for Nazi gesture, saying ‘Heil Hitler’ in 2007 video

  05-10-2026 14:48 via article.wn.com
  Samoa’s Prime Minister Laʻauli...
  
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• World Habitat Day: Adequate housing for all – a right we must build

  05-10-2026 14:48 via article.wn.com
  A home is more than four walls and a roof. It is where families are raised, where children grow, and where communities take shape. Yet for millions of people, adequate housing is still out of reach. The World Habitat Day was set aside by the United Nations in 1985 to draw attention to this. This year’s theme -“Adequate Housing for All” -lands on the same day as World Architecture Day, marked by the International Union of Architects under the theme “Housing is a Human Righ
  
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• US pulls bombers from UK—What does it mean for Iran war?

  05-10-2026 14:48 via article.wn.com
  The U.S. has pulled its remaining bomber aircraft from a major U.K. military base roughly a...
  
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• US jobs report cools Fed rate hike bets: Why October CPI and record diesel prices ...

  05-10-2026 14:48 via article.wn.com
  US jobs report cools...
  
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• Türkiye's inflation falls to 29.73 pct in September

  05-10-2026 14:48 via article.wn.com
  ANKARA, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye's annual inflation eased to 29.73 percent in September, marking a fourth straight month of slowing price growth, the...
  
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• Texas Is the Third-Least Safe State, Per New Report

  05-10-2026 14:48 via article.wn.com
  Texas is the third-least safe state,...
  
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• Teenager loses hand picking up grenade in France school protests

  05-10-2026 14:48 via article.wn.com
  A 15-year-old student lost a...
  
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• South Korea blames North Korean mines for border blast injuries and demands apology

  05-10-2026 14:48 via article.wn.com
  South Korea's military said Monday it concluded North Korea planted mines that injured three South Korean soldiers at their heavily fortified border last month, urging the North to apologize and remove other mines. ......
  
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