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• Judge grants restraining order against Dolly Parton's nephew

  24-09-2026 02:28 via article.wn.com
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• War has returned to Ethiopia’s Tigray — and former enemies are now fighting together. What changed?

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Nearly four years ago, a peace deal ended the brutal war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. Now, the violence has returned — but the battle lines have changed. Tigrayan rebels are again fighting the federal government, while forces that were once enemies are now fighting side by side. On Wednesday, Tigrayan forces seized three airports controlled by the federal government, while fighting also broke out in the neighboring regions
  
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• Vatican estimates 700,000 people have turned out for Pope Leo's Mass at Place de la ...

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Vatican estimates 700,000 people have turned out for Pope Leo's Mass at Place de la Concorde and surroundings. ......
  
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• Urgent: Iran denies plans for military retaliation over recent air restrictions -- media

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  TEHRAN, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Secretariat of Iran's Supreme...
  
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• The world according to me: hair'apist

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  I need an appointment to have my hair cut and colored. Right now, it looks like it did during the pandemic. It’s been months since I’ve had a reason to style my hair for an event and that reality is ......
  
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• South Korea's gender pay gap grows as women get older

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  A new report shows how in South Korea, women on average earn less and have fewer employment opportunities throughout their lives. ......
  
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• Seminar in Kenya highlights China-proposed global initiatives for shared future

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  NAIROBI, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The China-proposed Global Development Initiative (GDI) and Global Governance Initiative (GGI) have the potential to reshape multilateralism and foster people-centered growth, equality, peace and stability, a seminar held in Kenya's resort town of Naivasha heard on Thursday. The seminar, co-organized by Kenya's Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in Kenya, with the Africa Policy Institute (API), a pan-African think tank, as implementing p
  
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• Pope Leo starts open-air mass before hundreds of thousands in Paris

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Pope Leo on Saturday began a giant open-air mass in Paris,...
  
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• Pope encourages French youth to seek holiness during visually rich stadium vigil

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Pope Leo XIV urged 80,000 young people gathered at the Stade de France Sept. 25 to pursue holiness, peace and a “living relationship with Jesus” during an evening prayer vigil that showcased the diversity of France’s Catholic youth. “The first thing I want to tell you is: Thank You!” the pope said, speaking off-the-cuff. “Thank you for your courage, thank you for your presence, thank you for your faith!” “Young people of France, you carry in your h
  
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• Peoria bishop offers thanksgiving Mass for Sheen beatification

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  The morning after Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was beatified in front of over 50,000 people in St. Louis, the bishop, clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Peoria returned home to celebrate a series of Masses of thanksgiving for this historic moment in the U.S. Church. Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria celebrated Mass in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria Sept. 25, where Blessed Fulton J. Sheen was ordained a priest and where his remains are entombed. While a quiet line of
  
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• ‘Immense opportunity and honor,’ say new Catholics meeting Pope Leo in Paris

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  In a country witnessing record surge of adult baptisms, Pope Leo XIV met with protagonists of the trend Sept. 26, at the grounds of the Catholic Institute of Paris. Among those meeting the pope were catechumens, recent converts and participants in the Archdiocese of Paris’ Synodal Assembly. Father Maximilien de la Martinière, secretary general of the assembly – a major initiative of the Archdiocese of Paris organized in response to a surge in adult and youth conversions across
  
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• Hundreds of thousands turn out for Pope Leo's popemobile parade along Champs-Élysées ahead of Mass

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Paris for an outdoor Mass at Place de la Concorde, marking the first official papal state visit to France in 18 years. The American pope greeted hundreds of thousands from his popemobile during a ......
  
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• Hundreds of thousands turn out for Pope Leo's Mass in Paris

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  The Vatican estimates 700,000 people...
  
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• Huge crowds gather in Paris for Pope Leo XIV ahead of outdoor mass

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Huge crowds of people have gathered on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris as Pope Leo XIV was due to arrive for an outdoor mass expected to be the biggest event of his weekend visit to France. More than 600,000 registered to attend the mid-afternoon mass, and crowds descended before sunrise against barriers down the tree-lined boulevard, waving white and yellow Vatican flags. Nearby, police closed streets...
  
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• Doctors Without Borders case opened over alleged Hamas links

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
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• Daniel McDonnell: Conflicted Ireland players arrive in Hungary deeply uneasy about going ahead with Israel fixture

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Heimir Hallgrimsson and Co find themselves on a hiding to nothing in Debrecen ......
  
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• China would face a ‘hellscape’ in a war over Taiwan

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Drones and artificial intelligence may give America an edge ......
  
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• Archie and Lilibet Thriving at New UK School as Prince Harry Opens Up on Security Concerns and Return to Britain

  26-09-2026 15:50 via article.wn.com
  Montreal: Prince Harry has said in a new interview that his children Archie and Lilibet are...
  
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• What drives ShinyHunters, the group that claimed responsibility for hacking the FBI?

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  The hacking group that claimed responsibility for...
  
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• U.S. News & World Report: Carson-Newman University one of South’s “Best Values”

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  JEFFERSON CITY — Carson-Newman...
  
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• US, Europe worry Russia is testing NATO with hybrid attacks and sabotage

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  Rubio warns of risk of Russia's war in Ukraine spreading While answering questions at the United Nations, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that Russia's war in Ukraine could potentially spread. NEW YORK – After an explosives-laden drone was discovered near a Ukrainian cargo plane at a German airport, European leaders did something they’d stopped short of doing before: publicly blame Russia. For years they’d suspected that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind acts of
  
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• UN only as strong as its members want it to be: UN spokesperson Dujarric hits ...

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  Recent discussions at the United Nations General Assembly focused on...
  
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• UK Labour members push to cancel Palantir health data contract

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  Delegates at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool are seeking to pressure the UK government to cancel a £330 million (nearly $438 million) NHS contract with US technology company Palantir. An emergency motion submitted to the conference calls on the Department of Health and Social Care to exercise a break clause in its contract with Palantir over the company's operation of the...
  
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• UAE says countries cannot 'fight serious crime alone', urges international cooperation

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  Criminals should not be able to use borders to escape justice, UAE Minister of Justice Abdullah Sultan bin Awad Al Nuaimi said on Saturday, outlining the UAE’s approach to international judicial cooperation at the 15th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Abu Dhabi. Speaking at a session titled 'Strengthening international judicial cooperation: The UAE experience and global partnerships', Al Nuaimi said organised crime, cybercrime, trafficking and illicit financial flows
  
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• Trump rejects Iran’s ceasefire offer and warns of renewed bombing

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
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• The humbling of Ed Sheeran is a disaster for the music industry

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
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• Thai capital Bangkok declared disaster zone amid widespread flooding

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  Bangkok Reuters — Bangkok’s governor on Saturday declared Thailand’s capital city a disaster-affected zone after torrential rain led to widespread flooding, while the weather agency forecast thunderstorms ​over the weekend. Major roads were flooded with cars partly submerged...
  
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• Russia, Ukraine trade deadly strikes as 7 people are killed

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  Seven people were killed in Russian and Ukrainian strikes Saturday, including four in Ukraine and three in Russia's southern Krasnodar region, local officials said, as Moscow and K ......
  
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• Prince Harry says kids are ‘happy’ in new school in Britain

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  He said it was “great to be back on British soil.” ......
  
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• Over half of Filipinos feel helpless over corruption: survey

  26-09-2026 15:29 via article.wn.com
  MANILA, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Over half of Filipinos feel helpless in the face of official corruption, according to a...
  
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