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• Mexican comic Manuel “El Loco” Valdés dies at 89

  28-08-2020 23:33 via article.wn.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican comic actor Manuel Valdés, known by his nickname “El Loco” or “The Crazy One”, has died at the age of 89, the national association of actors announced Friday. He...
  
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• Video shows NYPD officers rescuing man who threatened to jump off bridge

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
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• Venezuela's Maduro to face new US charges over alleged torture of Americans, says official

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Oct 7 - Ousted Venezuelan...
  
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• UK sees Trump’s bomber jets move boosting Iran and Russia

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump’s decision to...
  
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• Trump says he may ask FBI to look into Nolan Wells death

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Oct 7 - US President...
  
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• Trump says he deserves Nobel Peace Prize but has doubts he will get it

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Oct 7 - US...
  
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• Trump claims he deserves Nobel Peace Prize ahead of Friday announcement

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  US President Donald Trump, who waged war with Iran and has yet to broker peace in Ukraine, said that ⁠he should win the Nobel Peace Prize but acknowledged doubt about his chances. "I don't know what their decision is going to be," Mr Trump said of the 2026 award, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee will...
  
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• Trump admin plans to charge international students US$70,000 for work authorisation

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  The move is part of the Trump administration's wider crackdown on foreign visa holders. ......
  
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• Tropical Storm Isaias threatens Gulf Coast, but SW La. not in its path

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  Tropical Storm Isaias is rapidly organizing northwest of the Yucat�n Peninsula and is forecast to become a hurricane by early Thursday. According to Donald Jones, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, the storm is expected to peak as a...
  
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• Spanish leader expresses condolences after reported death of 87-year-old whose eviction sparked nationwide protests

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  MADRID (AP) — Spanish leader expresses condolences after reported death of 87-year-old whose eviction sparked nationwide protests. Source ......
  
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• Shots fired at UNIFIL post on Israel-Lebanon border 'unacceptable'

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said one of its posts was targeted near the border with Israel by small-arms fire, but there were no casualties. "This morning, several rounds of small arms fire impacted a UNIFIL...
  
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• Saudi Arabia says three dead at airports after Houthis claim attacks

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  Houthis claimed to have fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport. ......
  
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• Russia plague-lab worker’s death spurs WHO transparency push

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  The World Health Organization is pressing Russia for more information on the death of a worker in a plague lab, saying that what’s been disclosed so far makes it impossible to determine the risk the case poses. The international agency ......
  
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• Rubio says US ‘unapologetic’ about power in warning to Europe

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio used a dramatic backdrop in Greece to remind the world of the Trump administration’s focus on the “unapologetic” pursuit of power, and issued another warning to Europe about the dangers of Western decline. In a ......
  
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• RASA World Sells Out First Ever Two-Day Pier Play on the Santa Monica Pier, Two ...

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 7, 2026-- ......
  
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• Northumberland driver jailed for killing farmer on quad bike while using phone

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  Ami Dronsfield, 36, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving after she became distracted by her phone and collided with farmer Michael Armstrong, 58, who was riding a quad bike in Northumberland ......
  
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• In 2018 or 2019, a thrift-store shopper paid just $1.50 for a purse because he thought it looked pretty; in a 2026 Antiques Roadshow episode, experts identified it as Cartier Art Deco and valued it at $35,000, with insurance above $100,000

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  A man who spent just $1.50 on a clutch bag at a thrift store discovered years later that his inexpensive find was actually a Cartier Art Deco piece valued at about $35,000.The unnamed buyer brought the bright orange velvet clutch to an episode of PBS's 'Antiques Roadshow', where it was examined by jewellery specialist Katherine Van Dell. He told her that he had bought the bag in either 2018 or 2019 simply because he liked the way it looked.'I thought it was pretty,' he said when asked why he had
  
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• HasanAbi accuses Asmongold of ‘white nationalism’ after streamer’s explosive comments on France protests

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  Hasan “HasanAbi” Piker has accused fellow Twitch streamer Zack “Asmongold” of racism after Asmongold shared a highly controversial view on France’s ongoing student protests. During a livestream on October 6, Asmongold publicly argued that immigrants and their families should be removed from France and said protesters with immigrant parents or grandparents should not be considered native French. Hasan later reacted to the remarks on his own stream. He called Asmongol
  
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• French mayor caught in viral video clash says student protesters 'could be my children'

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  SAINT-DENIS, France, Oct 7 - In a...
  
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• Foreign workers building US consulate in Milan sign compensation deals over alleged abuses

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  MILAN (AP) — Foreign workers building the vast new U.S. consulate compound in Milan signed agreements at a Milan hotel Wednesday securing payouts averaging 45,000 euros ($50,400) each for alleged labor abuses while working for an American construction company. More than 60 laborers, mostly from India, signed the deals Wednesday to receive their share of a 31-million-euro (nearly $35 million) settlement agreed last month with Alabama-based Caddell Construction. The signings began Tuesday. P
  
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• Evicted Spanish octogenarian Maricarmen Abascal, heart of Spain's housing protests, has died

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  MADRID, Oct 7 -...
  
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• Economist: National hurdles won’t stop 6,000-job boom in LC

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  There is good news and not-so-good news about the national economy, and both sides of the coin are currently shaping the financial landscape. “We’ve got some really good things going on that are spurring the national economy already,” said economist Dr. Loren Scott. According to Scott, a primary driver of this economic momentum is the deregulation wave stemming from the Trump administration. He noted these actions were largely necessary to counter the extensive regulatory expan
  
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• DNA decodes: Why Donald Trump linked the French school riots to mass migration

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  In today’s DNA, Zee News Managing Editor Rahul Sinha decodes the global debate surrounding the French school protests, Donald Trump’s controversial remarks linking the unrest to mass migration, and the political clash over public security in France. ......
  
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• Christa Pike's first words after waking in hospital following botched execution

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  Christa Pike was due to become the first woman executed in Tennessee for more than two centuries but the execution was halted after she reportedly survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital and later regained consciousness ......
  
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• Brazil's Bolsonaro pledges broad review of Lula-era taxes

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  BRASILIA, Oct 7 - Brazil presidential candidate...
  
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• Brazilian students in Rio de Janeiro march against the prospect of another Bolsonaro presidency

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of Brazilian students marched in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to protest against the possibility of Flávio Bolsonaro winning the presidency, after the far-right candidate received more votes than incumbent and left-leaning Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. A sea of red-clad demonstrators made their way between two historical squares in Rio’s center, chanting and holding signs ref
  
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• As US midterm elections loom, Trump's campaign tactics are becoming increasingly unusual, and expensive

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  Despite not being on the ballot, Trump is campaigning hard ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. His tactics and promises have mostly been at the expense of US taypayers. Experts say some might violate federal law. ......
  
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• A rocky ‘wonderland’ in Arizona is poised to be the next US national park

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  An area of towering rock spires in southeastern Arizona known among Native Americans as the Land of Standing-Up Rocks is poised to become the nation’s newest national park. ......
  
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• A Florida billionaire bought an 8.4-acre oceanfront estate for $80 million in 2021; five years later, the vacant property is asking $165 million, with 562 feet of Atlantic frontage

  07-10-2026 23:48 via article.wn.com
  Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is putting one of his most spectacular Florida properties back on the market, and this time the asking price is $165 million. The Wall Street Journal first reported the planned relisting, while The Real Deal and Realtor.com provided additional details about the property, its history and the latest listing. Ellison bought the 8.4-acre oceanfront estate in North Palm Beach for $80 million in 2021, meaning the current asking price is more than double what he paid fiv
  
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• WHO says it does not have ‘full picture’ from Russia following suspected plague death

  07-10-2026 23:20 via article.wn.com
  ‘Transparent information sharing’ from Moscow is required to conduct full risk assessment, UN agency says...
  
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