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• Nolo becomes Category 3 Hurricane in remote Pacific Ocean

  04-10-2026 05:18 via article.wn.com
  The storm’s maximum sustained winds rapidly intensified to 115 mph (185 kph), the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported, meaning it was a Category 3 hurricane ......
  
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• Your feed isn't random. The algorithm is built to keep you angry, anxious and scrolling

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  In most Indian homes there used to be one person who read the newspaper properly, front to back, in order, and woe betide anyone who pulled out the sports page before he was done. The front page came first, with its riots and rail accidents and ministers saying things they would deny in the evening.Then came the edit page, where someone calmer explained what all that noise actually meant. Then the letters section, where a retired schoolteacher from Medinipur would disagree, very politely, with a
  
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• World Bank says India should scale small AI applications instead of betting heavily on frontier models

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  India should focus on expanding the use of...
  
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• Why Quebec separatism is back in focus after PQ election win, and what it means ...

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Canada’s Quebec separatism is back in...
  
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• ‘Very deep cuts to his head’: Dentist recalls crucial 45 minutes that helped save flydubai hero Captain Smit Machchhar

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  An Israel-based dentist who was among the passengers on flydubai Flight FZ1073 has recalled the frantic 45-minute effort to save Captain Smit Machchhar after he was attacked in the cockpit during the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight.Dr Shota Musaev to ABC News that he rushed towards the cockpit after hearing screams and found Machchhar seriously injured and bleeding.Musaev said Machchhar had deep cuts to his head and left hand. He used T-shirts to press against the wounds and asked cabin crew for ice.&ldqu
  
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• ‘Using the presidency to line his pockets’: could claims of corruption fuel backlash against Trump?

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Experts say president is vulnerable amid discontent over rising prices – and the US public has ample cause for complaint...
  
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• Trump's Pneumonia Aid Offer to Russia Serves U.S. Pharma Interests

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Politologist Lyudmila Adilova, a professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and a senior analyst at Moscow State University's Information and Analytical Center, suggests that U.S. President Donald Trump's recent...
  
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• Trump says he will stop using taxpayer funds for self-promoting ads after backlash – US ...

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  President claims commercials were ‘positive promotion for our Great USA’ but says he will now cover their cost...
  
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• ‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales ...

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  The country’s far-right president is courting billionaire investors by removing a block on foreign ownership of land and natural resources...
  
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• Supreme Court upholds 'socialist' and 'secular' terms in Indian Preamble

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  The Supreme Court of India has reaffirmed the constitutional validity of the terms 'socialist' and 'secular' within the Preamble, upholding their inclusion via the 42nd Constitutional...
  
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• Smart cities 2.0: Can Vietnam’s new urban model avoid the limits of India’s tech-led approach?

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Vietnam is now testing a model in which data systems, governance standards and climate resilience are incorporated into the planning of a new city before it begins full operations. ......
  
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• Saudi airports hit as Gaza strikes kill two amid wider Middle East violence

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Saudi airports hit as Gaza strikes kill two amid wider Middle East violence ......
  
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• Saudi airports hit as Gaza strike kills one amid widening Middle East tensions

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Saudi airports hit as Gaza strike kills one amid widening Middle East tensions ......
  
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• Russia denies imposing anti-plague measures after death of worker

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Russian authorities denied Tuesday that they were imposing special anti-plague measures after a laboratory technician reportedly died of the disease, as the UN’s health agency said the risk to the country was low. It was reported last week that a worker at an anti-plague institute in Siberia’s Irkutsk region died of pneumonic plague. But the authorities say the cause of death is not confirmed and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has denied claims circulating in a document online that.
  
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• RPM International: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  MEDINA, Ohio (AP) — MEDINA, Ohio (AP) — RPM International Inc. (RPM) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter profit of $256.4 million. ......
  
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• Richard Morecroft, veteran ABC news presenter, dies age 70 after cancer diagnosis

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Michael Rowland and Leigh Sales lead tributes to newsreader who read the ABC’s 7pm bulletin for 20 years...
  
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• OpenAI delivers a mea culpa to the Australian government in person – but answers still elude

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Jason Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner. For a company under intense scrutiny, there were no missteps...
  
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• On the barricades with wheelie bins and shopping trolleys: Paris students rage at politicians and police

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality...
  
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• Nobel physics prize honours work on 'ghost messengers from space'

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Belgian physicist Francis Halzen on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on subatomic particles at the South Pole, the award jury said. “This year’s prize is about ghostly messengers from space,” Ellen Moons, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told a news conference. Halzen was honoured “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”, the jury said
  
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• New Jersey congresswoman LaMonica McIver faces legal deadline after giving birth to second child

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  She must decide by the end of the week whether to seek further review of federal charges over a confrontation with ICE agents at Delaney Hall...
  
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• Lionel Messi has completed football and can bid Argentina farewell with pride

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Messi says goodbye with 208 caps and a World Cup but there were times he thought his glory would never come...
  
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• Jim Bakker, televangelist who built The PLT Club, dead at 86

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86. ......
  
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• Jeffrey Archer: The British author who made Indians fall in love with English writing

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  That Jeffrey Archer had a way with words would be an understatement. In 2019, the only year that he attended the Jaipur Literature Festival, he shared an anecdote that encapsulated the unique position he occupies among Indian readers of English.Archer recalled that a young urchin came up to him with pirated books and asked: “Sir, do you want the latest Jeffrey Archer?” To this, the author replied: “I am the latest Jeffrey Archer.”In that same interaction, he argued that R
  
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• India condemns attack on commercial vessel off Oman coast; 11 Indians injured

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  The MEA said the continuing incidents of attacks on shipping in the region remain a “cause of deep concern for India". ......
  
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• Incumbent upon Russia to share more: US says tracking death of Russian plague lab worker ...

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Incumbent upon Russia to share more: US says tracking death of Russian plague lab worker 'hour by hour' ......
  
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• In 1991, Nintendo used special cartridges for its Campus Challenge and later destroyed all but one; the survivor reached a New York garage sale in 2006 and resold on eBay for $20,100 three years later

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  It looked like an odd old Nintendo cartridge sitting among boxes of gaming memorabilia. But when video-game collector Rob Walters came across it at a New York garage sale in 2006, he had stumbled upon something that Nintendo had never intended to become a collector's treasure.The cartridge was made specifically for Nintendo's 1991 Campus Challenge, a nationwide gaming competition that took place at around 60 US college campuses and other locations. It combined three Nintendo games into a single
  
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• Germany arrests former spy chief over treason and espionage allegations

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of treasonous espionage and passing sensitive information to overseas intelligence services, the federal prosecutor’s office said.Hanning, 80, headed Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, from December 1998 to November 2005. Prosecutors said he is “strongly suspected of treasonous espionage, spying out state secrets, attempted treason, and espionage.”A...
  
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• Former head of German foreign intelligence suspected of 'treasonous espionage'

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  A former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service was arrested Tuesday on suspicion that he passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said. ......
  
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• Former BND chief August Hanning arrested in Germany espionage probe

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Former BND chief August Hanning arrested in Germany espionage probe ......
  
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• Ex-spy chief is arrested in Germany on suspicion of trading state secrets and treason

  06-10-2026 14:44 via article.wn.com
  Germany's federal prosecutor's office...
  
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