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• Michigan DNR to track fish stocking using 23andMe-style gene testing

  15-10-2026 20:42 via article.wn.com
  The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has begun using genetic testing to track the success of some of its fish-stocking operations. The goal is to find out if fish living in a particular water body descended from the parents of stocked fish. Doing so helps the DNR know if its multimillion-dollar stocking efforts are paying off by telling them if the stocked fish are living on in the waterway. “Think about genetics (testing) like Ancestry.com, 23andMe,” Jen Johnson, senior fish
  
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• Why Republicans’ $1 billion election war chest is failing to translate into votes in the ...

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  Republicans have spent heavily on midterm races, backed by a nearly $1 billion war chest and major donations from Elon Musk, but their financial edge has not shifted polling or delivered proportionate advertising exposure. ......
  
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• US Democrats urge Rubio to press India over protest crackdown

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  Six US Democratic lawmakers have called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss alleged police excesses during student protests in India and investigate claims of surveillance targeting demonstrators by Indian diplomatic missions in the United States.In a letter...
  
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• Trump waives Russian oil and gas sanctions that threatened 100% tariffs on India

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  US President Donald Trump has made another U-turn and decided to waive of sanctions and tariffs imposed on the purchase of Russian oil and gas, offering a relief to India, China and several other countries. ......
  
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• Trump pauses 100% tariff threat against India over Russian oil

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  Washington: US President Donald Trump has temporarily halted the implementation of a law allowing tariffs of up to 100% on India and other countries buying Russian oil and gas, easing an immediate trade threat against New Delhi amid continuing tensions over its energy ties with Moscow,...
  
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• Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: Oct 17, 2026

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  WORLD > NEWS Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand &...
  
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• Katie Zacharia out as White House press secretary after just 5 days, Trump asks her ...

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is transitioning...
  
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• Interview: Cooperation with China advances Uzbekistan's national development, says expert

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  TASHKENT, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- From electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing to green energy and regional railway, Uzbekistan's cooperation with China is increasingly translating high-level political trust into tangible economic gains, an Uzbek expert has said. Eldor Tulyakov, executive director of the Development Strategy Center of Uzbekistan, a think tank, made the remarks in an interview with Xinhua. As bilateral engagement enters a...
  
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• Inside Kyiv: A City That Refuses To Yield

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  WORLD > NEWS Inside Kyiv: A City That Refuses To Yield 17/10/2026 10:53 AM Daily life in Kyiv, Ukraine Daily life in Kyiv, Ukraine Daily life...
  
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• 'Hearsay dressed up as UN report': India rejects claims of youth facing stigma amid CJP protest

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  Rejecting a report by a human rights expert of...
  
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• Global Hunger Index 2026: Pakistan ranks 106th out of 122, reports one of the poorest ...

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  Pakistan ranked 106th of 122 countries in...
  
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• Feature: Family memories bring Vietnamese general's Long March legacy to life

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  This photo taken on Oct. 1, 2026 shows a sculpture and a portrait of Vietnamese general Hong Shui in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Xinhua/Liu Ying) HANOI, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- For the family of Vietnamese general Hong Shui, known in Vietnam as Nguyen Son, the Long March in China is a journey they never witnessed, yet one that has lived on through stories about the man who walked it. Between 1934 and 1936, the Red Army, led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), trekked up to 12,500 km to break through the enc
  
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• China, Russia quietly moving toward a new Arctic axis

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin’s advisor Nikolai Patrushev’s recent visit to China points to something more consequential than another round of Russia-China strategic rhetoric: Moscow is trying to turn maritime cooperation with Beijing into infrastructure, technology and logistics that can survive geopolitical pressure. The proposals discussed during the October 8-13 visit — linking China’s Maritime Silk Road with Russia’s Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor, developi
  
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• China calls for joint efforts to address risks, challenges in nuclear field

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's ambassador for disarmament affairs, Li Chijiang, on Friday called on the international community to work together to address the risks and challenges in the nuclear field. Li made the appeal at the thematic debate on nuclear weapons at the Disarmament and International Security Committee of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. Over the past year, confrontation within multilateral nuclear arms...
  
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• Bangladesh temple row escalates after beef feast as students plan cow slaughter on Durga Puja ...

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  A controversy over a beef khichdi feast near a temple at Jagannath University in Bangladesh's...
  
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• Abraham Accords back on track? Trump indicates Saudi Arabia may accept Israel's help against Houthis

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  While Saudi Arabia continues struggling...
  
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• 8 dead in W. India road mishap

  17-10-2026 10:31 via article.wn.com
  NEW DELHI, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people died and nearly a dozen others were injured when the vehicle they were traveling in fell off the road...
  
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• US pushes World Bank to scrap oil, gas funding curbs in major energy policy overhaul

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has urged the World Bank to end its restrictions on financing upstream oil and gas projects, arguing that developing countries need reliable and affordable energy to drive economic growth, industrialisation and job creation.According to news agency ANI, Bessent made the demand during the October 2026 annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, calling for a technology-neutral approach to energy...
  
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• Two Indonesian women farmers named to FAO 100 Women Heroes list

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  Jakarta (ANTARA) - Two Indonesian women farmers, Istiqamah from Aceh and Rulyantina from Banten, have been named to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) list of 100 Women Heroes in Agrifood Systems and Rural Development. The two were awarded by FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu during the World Food Forum in Rome, Italy, on Thursday (Oct.15) for their contributions to sustainable agriculture and rural economic empowerment, together with 98 other women from various countries. "A commu
  
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• Trump waives key Russia-related sanctions, tariffs before they take effect under new law

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump...
  
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• Trump says he didn’t meddle with Elon Musk’s Starshield in Ukraine as ties with Zelensky fracture

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  The worst crisis in US-Ukraine relations since last year’s Oval Office meltdown is deteriorating further over a dispute about who ordered a disruption to a critical Ukrainian military system running on Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service. President Volodymyr Zelensky is meanwhile warning he will resume attacks on Russian oil refineries that President Donald Trump insists are worsening high diesel and gasoline prices ahead of US midterm elections. The new rupture reflects a stark ne
  
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• Teacher and armed parent teamed up to stop Oregon school shooter, police say

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  A 16-year-old boy who shot and...
  
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• Slick diplomacy: Trump’s crude u-turn on Russia sanctions bails out India

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  TOI correspondent from Washington: For months, MAGA supremo Donald Trump and his minions threatened to “crush” India’s economy for New Delhi’s purchase of Russian oil. The economics has now caught up with the rhetoric. Faced with soaring fuel prices at home and a widely forecast rout in the mid-term elections, the US President has reversed course and put most of the Russia sanctions on ice, effectively leaving India off the hook for now.The presidential U-turn, announced
  
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• Meet Nathan Davies, the UK father who won £98,000 on a quiz show and set a world record by eating 15 fish fingers in 60 seconds

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  Most people who win money on a television quiz show spend the prize on something sensible. Nathan Davies chose a rather different route. After winning £98,000 on The 1% Club, the proud father of two kept a promise he had made on national television, he would break a world record. His chosen challenge was gloriously ordinary, a household staple eaten against the clock. In a single minute, he swallowed fifteen fish fingers and earned an official title. Here is how the attempt came about, why
  
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• Kota JEE aspirant, 16, hit on head with toy gun butt by classmate during coaching institute clash

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  KOTA: A 16-year-old JEE aspirant from Bihar was injured after being struck on the head with the butt of a toy gun by his 16-year-old classmate from Uttar Pradesh during an altercation at a coaching institute in Kota Friday evening,...
  
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• 'Internet access is fundamental right': SC suggests ‘child mode’ for social media accounts

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Saturday declared access to and use of the internet a fundamental right for every individual, including children, under Articles 21 and 19(1)(a) of the Constitution, observing that “The safety of our children and their freedom are not at odds with each other.”The bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice K Vinod Chandran also suggested that children’s online safety should be strengthened through measures such as a ‘child mode’ for soc
  
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• In 1993, a rancher donated 300 American bison that were released on an Oklahoma prairie; today, more than 2,000 roam the preserve, helping restore one of Earth's most threatened ecosystems

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  In 1993, Oklahoma ranchers Kenneth and Dianna Adams donated 300 American bison to The Nature Conservancy, setting in motion a conservation effort to restore one of North America's most threatened ecosystems. More than three decades later, the herd has grown to thousands of animals roaming the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve near Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Spanning 39,650 acres, the preserve protects a rare stretch of native grassland where bison grazing and carefully managed fires help ma
  
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• A Wyoming ranch grew from a 160-acre homestead into a 320-acre dude ranch; its owners sold it to the National Park Service with a lifetime estate agreement

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  Long before Grand Teton National Park became a major destination for visitors, White Grass Ranch in Wyoming’s Jackson Hole valley was part of a growing industry built around the American West’s landscapes and ranching traditions. According to the National Park Service (NPS), Harold Hammond filed a 160-acre homestead claim in 1913. His partner, George Tucker Bispham, later developed an adjoining claim, and the two properties eventually formed a 320-acre ranch. By around 1919, White Gr
  
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• 2 killed, 12 injured as packed private bus overturns in Bhiwani; driver flees

  17-10-2026 10:14 via article.wn.com
  BHIWANI: Two men were killed and 12 passengers injured after a private bus carrying around 60 people overturned near Prem Nagar in Haryana’s Bhiwani district on Friday evening. The bus was travelling from Bhiwani towards Hansi when the accident occurred. The driver allegedly fled the scene after abandoning the vehicle, police said.The deceased have been identified as Mohit (20), a resident of Prem Nagar, and...
  
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• Who is Katie Zacharia, the White House Press Secretary ‘let go’ after five days in office?

  17-10-2026 09:57 via article.wn.com
  Confirming her departure in a post on X, Katie Zacharia said it had been “an honour” to serve as White House Press Secretary ......
  
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