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• Major FlyDubai flight update after horror cockpit ‘hijack’ incident

  02-10-2026 21:38 via express.co.uk
  The airline's CEO has spoken out after the terrifying incident on September 30.
  
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• Zambia says it will sign $3.6 billion US health deal after stripping patient data clauses

  06-10-2026 13:48 via article.wn.com
  Zambia plans to sign a revised health...
  
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• Nigerian Air Force says plane carrying 25 crashed with no survivors in southern Ondo state

  06-10-2026 13:48 via article.wn.com
  Officials say there were no survivors among 25 people on board a Nigerian Air Force plane that crashed in southern Nigeria’s Ondo state. The Nigerian Air Force said Tuesday that the ATR-42 aircraft crashed Monday. The aircraft was carrying 20 ......
  
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• Much of the world sees tragedy in Gaza. Many Israelis, scarred by Oct. 7, see ...

  06-10-2026 13:48 via article.wn.com
  Many Israelis struggle to see Palestinians as anything other than a threat, three years after the war in Gaza began. Israel’s wartime conduct continues to spark outrage internationally, but in Israel the focus is still on Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, ......
  
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• Lionel Messi prepares for his final match for Argentina

  06-10-2026 13:48 via article.wn.com
  Expect lots of tears when Lionel Messi plays his last game for Argentina. The friendly against Benin in Buenos Aires on Tuesday has been dubbed “The Night That No One Wants to End.” The 39-year-old soccer icon announced his international ......
  
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• Global shares mostly advance after Wall Street gains and oil prices fall

  06-10-2026 13:48 via article.wn.com
  World shares have mostly advanced and U.S. futures have edged higher after a rally on Wall Street. Markets in mainland China were closed Tuesday for a holiday. Oil prices fell more than 1% as the situation in the Middle East ......
  
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• Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin

  06-10-2026 13:48 via article.wn.com
  Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in...
  
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• Bulgarian prime minister says 2 commercial vessels hit by drones in economic zone

  06-10-2026 13:48 via article.wn.com
  Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev...
  
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• UN Secretary-General Guterres arrives in Pakistan for official visit

  06-10-2026 13:29 via article.wn.com
  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in...
  
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• IATA World Safety and Operations Conference opens in Istanbul

  06-10-2026 13:29 via article.wn.com
  The International Air Transport Association World...
  
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• Trump says US moved bombers from UK base after 'threats'

  06-10-2026 13:11 via article.wn.com
  Email: Washington DC: President Donald Trump confirmed the United States relocated its bombers from RAF Fairford back to American stations following intelligence...
  
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• Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing to Visit Malaysia After Migrant Returns Begin

  06-10-2026 13:11 via article.wn.com
  Email: [email protected] Kuala Lumpur: Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing is scheduled to visit Malaysia on Wednesday and Thursday, officials...
  
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• Harmanpreet Kaur steps down as India women’s captain

  06-10-2026 13:11 via article.wn.com
  Email: [email protected] New Delhi: Harmanpreet Kaur, India's women's cricket skipper, has stepped down as captain in all three forms, bringing an end to her long tenure with the national...
  
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• 12 Crew Injured After Tanker Is Hit In Strait Of Hormuz

  06-10-2026 13:11 via article.wn.com
  Twelve crew members were injured after the Panama-flagged commercial tanker MT On...
  
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• Zara Pulls Child's Halloween Costume Likened to Concentration Camp Uniform

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  Zara Home confirmed the striped costume's removal after online criticism, reviving scrutiny of the chain's recurring Holocaust-imagery lapses. ......
  
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• WHO says 'low' risk in Russia following plague reports

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
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• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Arrives in Athens Today

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in Athens today, as Greece and the United States prepare to hold the sixth round of their Strategic Dialogue amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine. The visit comes as Athens and Washington continue to deepen their bilateral relationship, while the current regional environment highlights Greece’s role as a partner on security and stability in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Rubio’s visit to Greece
  
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• US, German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine yesterday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain. The Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said Deisseroth, 54, Hegemann, 71, and Nagel, 73, had been selected for their “discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” “This method (optogenetics) makes it possibl
  
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• Tuvalu urges world leaders to seek Pacific climate solutions ahead of COP31 in Türkiye

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  Tuvalu has urged world leaders to look beyond the impacts of climate change and recognize the solutions Pacific communities are already implementing as officials gather for preparatory talks ahead of next month’s COP31 climate summit. Tuvalu’s Climate Change and Environment Minister Maina...
  
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• Trump says US bombers moved out of UK airbase due to Iran threat

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said on Monday that American B-1 bombers were moved out of a British airbase due to threats linked to Iran.The planes had been stationed at RAF Fairford, the preferred European ​base for US bombers, and had recently been used in US strikes on Iran. Last week, five British men were arrested near the base on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers —thought to be about a dozen B-1s &md
  
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• Trump orders firing squad for Hasan, 2009 Fort Hood attacker

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump has ordered the use of a firing squad to execute the former US Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree the gunman later described as retaliation for US wars in the Muslim world, the Pentagon said on Monday. Putting former US Army Major Nidal Hasan to death by Army firing squad was approved by Trump at the recommendation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said on X. Parnell noted that Hasan shou
  
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• Trump blames Iran for flydubai attack; Vance says no proof yet

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  Washington: US President Donald Trump blamed Iran for the attempted takeover of a flydubai passenger aircraft, even as Vice President JD Vance said US intelligence had not yet found conclusive evidence connecting Tehran to the incident, Times of India reported.Trump expressed his belief...
  
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• Transport Ship Neptune Runs Aground off Salamina

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  The Neptune Ethos, a Greek-flagged vehicle carrier, ran aground on a sandy seabed off Kamatereos in Salamina on Monday night, 5 October, under circumstances that remain unclear. The vessel, which was sailing without...
  
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• “They want to stop our F-35s”: How Turkish media read Rubio’s Athens trip

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  Turkish media are watching US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens closely, and reading it almost entirely through the lens of Greek–Turkish rivalry. The focus is the F-35, Greece’s arms programs, and the planned electricity link between Cyprus and Crete. Turkish media expect the Greek side to...
  
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• Teens vs cop: France braces for school blockades, protests

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  France braced on Tuesday for a day of nationwide high-school blockades and trade union-led street protests in support of students demanding that President Emmanuel Macron's cash-strapped government tackle understaffed and dilapidated schools. Teenage students stood on barricades made of trash cans in front of schools from Lille in the north to Marseille in the south, and from Strasbourg in the east to Nantes in the west. In Paris they held up banners reading "We want to be heard, not teargassed"
  
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• Teenager loses hand picking up grenade amid French school protests

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  PARIS — A teenager has lost a hand in a grenade explosion as the return of school protests in France sparked clashes with police.The 15-year-old was seriously injured in the northern city of Lens on Monday. Unverified police reports said that he had picked up a stun grenade.The youth, injured near the Auguste-Behal vocational high school, was taken to hospital in Lille. His life is not in danger, according to Pas-de-Calais prefect Francois-Xavier Lauch.A police union source reported...
  
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• Stelios Hadjiioannou Marries Orla Murphy in Monaco in Intimate Ceremony

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  British-Cypriot businessman Sir Stelios Hadjiioannou has married his longtime partner Orla Murphy in an intimate civil ceremony in Monaco, surrounded by family and around 50 close guests. The couple exchanged vows at Monaco City Hall on Saturday, marking the beginning of their marriage with a deliberately private celebration. Hadjiioannou, best...
  
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• Spain's Official Gazette publishes decree calling for early general election on Nov. 29

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  Spain's Official Gazette on Tuesday published a royal decree dissolving parliament and formally calling for an early general election to be held on Nov. 29. The decree, issued by King Felipe VI at the proposal of Prime...
  
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• Rubio heads to Athens, not Ankara, as Greece pushes for F-35s, new weapons and energy backing

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will arrive in Athens on Tuesday for a two-day visit that will put defence, energy security and rising tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean at the centre of talks with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Rubio’s visit for the sixth Greece-US Strategic Dialogue is being closely watched in Athens, particularly because the US Secretary of State is travelling to Greece without a corresponding visit to Ankara. For decades, Washington has generally sought to ba
  
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• Right-wing wave in Brazil’s Congress boosts Bolsonaro camp ahead of presidential runoff

  06-10-2026 12:52 via article.wn.com
  Brazil’s right-wing Liberal Party, home to Senator Flavio Bolsonaro’s presidential bid, emerged as the biggest winner in congressional elections on Sunday, securing the largest single-party representation in both the Senate and the lower house. Senator Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, on Sunday won the most votes in the first round of the presidential race, advancing to a runoff against leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on October 25. During the
  
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