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• Russia strikes Ukraine data center, seizes 4 more settlements

  11-10-2026 23:08 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russian forces carried out drone strikes overnight on Ukrainian military-related facilities and cargo vessels and captured four more settlements...
  
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• Why Yemen’s Taiz city has become a key battleground in the renewed civil war

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  The battle for the...
  
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• When does the World Series start? Schedule, format, how to watch and more to know

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  The Fall Classic is upon us. The MLB season will come to a close with the 2026 World Series, and one team has already clinched a spot by sweeping its way to the pennant. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are WATCH HERE The Milwaukee Brewers, MLB's top team in the regular season, reached the World Series for the first time in 44 years with an NLCS sweep over the two-time reigning champion Los...
  
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• What we know about the elementary school shooting in Bend, Oregon

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Three young children and a teacher were killed Thursday afternoon in a horrific shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and a teenage suspect was fatally shot by a good Samaritan who pursued him. The shooter forced entry into Silver Rail Elementary School by firing through the locked doors around 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET), Bend police said. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are WATCH HERE Police arrived within three minutes and learned the suspect had been shot and killed. Many que
  
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• WATCH LIVE: New England's having an 'elite' year, but there's fall foliage elsewhere, too

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Kyle Cotner knew nothing about fall foliage when he trolled his White House colleagues in 2007, telling them he was an expert despite having grown up in Florida. When autumn rolled around, he kept up the bit, sending out weekly newsletters with foliage statistics and information to a handful of co-workers. Today, he has mastered complex mapping systems, calls himself “Leaf Daddy” and owns The Foliage Report, a website that tracks fall color from coast to co
  
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• US prioritises trade ties with India despite frictions over Russian oil and tariffs

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  The United States has reaffirmed that strengthening trade and commercial linkages with India remains a strategic priority, according to US Ambassador Sergio Gor. Speaking at the Bloomberg New...
  
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• Trump increased investments in drugmakers benefitting from Medicare exemptions, Democrats say

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Investments in pharmaceutical companies made on behalf of President Donald Trump increased significantly after he returned to the White House last year, with his portfolio adding millions of dollars in stock in firms that benefited from a Republican-backed law that shields certain medications from Medicare price negotiations, according to a report from congressional Democrats. The report, released Friday by the Joint Economic Committee’s minority arm, found that Trump’s pharmaceutica
  
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• Stocks open mostly higher on Wall Street but are still headed for a weekly loss

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Stocks are opening mostly higher on Wall Street, but more declines for big tech stocks are weighing on the market. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% in early trading Friday. The index is still on track for a weekly loss, ......
  
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• Saudi Arabia flights update: Over 15 airlines suspend, cancel services amid Houthi attacks; affected routes

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  The United States, France, UAE and Japan have restricted their operations to Saudi Arabia. | World News ......
  
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• Morocco's Net Foreign Debt Reaches 791.8 Billion Dirhams in 2025

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  According to the Office des Changes, Morocco's net foreign debt position closed 2025 at 791.8 billion dirhams, an increase of 81.1 billion dirhams from the previous year. This expansion in the country's external...
  
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• Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan to open trade houses to reach $200 million turnover target

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan are planning to establish mutual trade hubs in Lahore and Bishkek, aiming to shift from diplomatic agreements to structural trade...
  
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• Kohler Announces Official Partnership with DP World India Championship 2026

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Kohler Announces Official Partnership with DP World India Championship 2026Imageshttps://bwi-api-react.businesswireindia.com/Uploads/news-multimedia/images/20dda03f-e1c3-478e-a52e-9f264020b2e8.jpg ......
  
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• Japan Records Lowest Birth Rate in 126 Years Amid Accelerated Population Decline

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Japan recorded its lowest birth rate in 126 years of official observations, with 705,809 births registered in 2025. During the same period, the number of deaths exceeded 1.6 million, resulting in a natural...
  
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• Italy air traffic capacity fully restored after network disruption caused delays

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Italy's air traffic capacity has been...
  
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• Hot, windy weather stokes brush fires in Southern California; power turned off for many

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Several brush fires were burning in Southern California on Friday, stoked by hot, windy weather that’s led to some evacuations and tens of thousands of people in the state waking up in the dark after their electricity was turned off. A rapidly spreading blaze in Malibu, a coastal town west of Los Angeles, prompted evacuation orders and warnings for a large swathe of the Santa Monica Mountains. A large cloud of black smoke over the hilltops could be seen on nearby
  
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• Hezbollah Tells the Lebanese Government It Wants Its Explosives Back

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  The demand sets up a public contest of wills with a government that has pledged to demilitarize the Iran-backed militant group. ......
  
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• Grand Forks B. C. subsidizes private clinic with $187,000 to recruit three family doctors

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  In Grand Forks, B. C., a municipality of approximately 4,000 residents, local government is directly subsidizing the operating costs of a private medical clinic to address a critical shortage of family physicians. This arrangement, which began earlier this year, involves the town, a local...
  
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• Gen Z Trump Voters Express Regret Amid Economic Strain

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Gen Z voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024 are beginning to express regret over their support as midterm elections approach. In a focus group conducted last week by Navigator Research, a polling group described as left-leaning, eight...
  
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• Fundraising to protect oceans, forests and other key nature sites falling short ahead of UN summit

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Efforts to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve the world’s oceans, forests, rivers, lakes and other parts of the natural world have fallen short ahead of a key U.N. summit on biodiversity. The yawning gap between the stated ambition of nations to protect biodiversity and what money has been raised will be a central topic in Yerevan, Armenia, when the biodiversity conference, known as COP17, gets started on Monday. The nearly two-week event, scheduled to end Oct. 30, is a chan
  
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• From Taiwan to the World: PharmaEssentia Expands Global Reach With New Drug Approvals, Overseas Investments

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 16, 2026-- ......
  
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• From Taiwan to the World: PharmaEssentia Builds a Scientist-Led, Fully Integrated Global Biopharmaceutical Company with ...

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 16, 2026-- ......
  
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• FBI workers fired over Trump classified files probe sue to get their jobs back

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.” The complaint adds to the growing list of legal challenges to the mass terminations by FBI Director Kash Patel of agents who participated in investigations of the Republican president or who were perceived as opposed to Trump administration
  
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• Democrats hope a rematch can dislodge Trump loyalist Perry in Pennsylvania

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Of all the Republican members of Congress who represent swing districts, there may be none as closely linked to President Donald Trump as Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. Perry backed Trump’s signature tax-cutting laws in 2017 and 2025. He’s aggressively defended Trump’s war with Iran. And when Trump tried to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory in 2020, Perry sought to invalidate Pennsylvania’s electoral votes and ele
  
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• Crowds throng New Delhi and wave Indian flags amid escalating protests

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of Indians thronged a bustling thoroughfare in the heart of the capital, waving the national flag and demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief, the latest show of public dissent against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The protesters rallied in Connaught Place, one of New Delhi’s busiest commercial districts, responding to a call by the youth “Cockroach” movement, whose leader Abhijeet Dipke was detained by
  
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• China sentences 6 for lead-tainted kindergarten food that sickened over 200 children

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  BEIJING (AP) — A court in China on Friday sentenced the operator of a kindergarten and other employees to prison terms for serving tainted food, after more than 200 students were found with abnormally...
  
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• Canada's House of Commons passes bill creating independent modern treaty commissioner

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Bill C-10, which would establish an independent federal modern treaty commissioner, passed third reading in the House of Commons on Sept. 21 and received second reading in the...
  
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• Bank of Japan Must Ensure Underlying Inflation Doesn’t Go Above 2%, Ueda Says

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  The central bank’s governor said the Middle East situation, AI demand and foreign-exchange rates would affect the timing of the decision. ......
  
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• Amelia Earhart fans anxiously watch expedition for long-lost plane

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Amelia Earhart expedition team heads to Nikumaroro Island Researchers searching for Amelia Earhart’s plane are heading to Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific island. Around the globe, Amelia Earhart enthusiasts are anxiously awaiting the results of an expedition that could locate the famed aviator's missing plane and help solve one of the 20th century's most enduring mysteries. In early October, a group of researchers set out for a remote Pacific island in hopes of finding the aircraft Earhart us
  
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• Advisory Council and Senate Bill Move to Reduce Section 106 NHPA Obligations

  16-10-2026 16:45 via article.wn.com
  Two separate federal actions are currently moving to reduce the legal obligations associated with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), a provision that requires federal agencies to consult with states, tribes, and stakeholders before approving projects that may...
  
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• What to know about the shooting at an Oregon elementary school

  16-10-2026 16:28 via article.wn.com
  Three children and a teacher were killed Thursday in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. The suspect was killed by a bystander. ......
  
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