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• Shooting in Germany's Bavaria kills 2

  09-10-2026 02:01 via article.wn.com
  BERLIN, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed in a shooting in Berngau, in the German state of Bavaria, German newspaper Bild reported on Thursday. Citing police, local media reported that the shooting took place while two...
  
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• World war nobody is fighting directly

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
  Much has been written in recent years about proxy wars. At its core, a proxy war is when one state – or a group of states – goes after its rival indirectly. Instead of fighting its ......
  
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• Two powerful earthquakes and multiple aftershocks rock Panama, prompting evacuations

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
  PANAMA CITY (AP) — Two powerful 7.7 and 6.6 magnitude earthquakes and a series of aftershocks roiled southern Panama Friday afternoon, collapsing buildings near the epicenter and prompting evacuations across the country. The earlier quake, felt as far away as neighboring Colombia, was centered about 10 kilometers (6 miles) southwest of the remote community of Pitaloza Arriba, in the central province of Herrera, the USGS said. It struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). The USGS initia
  
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• Lula's government in Brazil lowers fuel prices ahead of runoff vote against Flávio Bolsonaro

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
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• Kai Cenat faces fresh allegations from Reggie as ‘Lil Rodney Son’ claims Twitch power imbalance

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
  Reginald “Reggie,” also known as “Lil Rodney Son,” has responded to Kai Cenat’s threat to sue him over allegations involving streamer RaKai. In a YouTube video posted on October 8, 2026, Reggie repeated his claims against Cenat and said he was saving his evidence for court. He also accused Cenat of having too much influence over Twitch and claimed that he could no longer stream on the platform. Cenat had threatened legal action after Reggie made the allegations on S
  
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• In 2003, two brothers bought a Queens home for $850,000; after racketeering convictions and years of forfeiture litigation, the property is heading to a federal auction with bidding starting at $900,000

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
  A Forest Hills home in Queens that was once owned by two brothers convicted in a major counterfeiting case is now headed for a federal auction, more than two decades after they bought it for $850,000. According to the US Treasury Department's auction listing, the five-bedroom property at 110-37 69th Ave. is scheduled to be sold online on October 23, with bidding starting at $900,000. The 3,572-square-foot house became entangled in federal forfeiture proceedings as authorities pursued the brother
  
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• In 1967, Georgia man Donnie Peek bought 150 acres and grew his property to 1,600 acres; decades later, a $3.2 billion pipeline route shifted to run 2.5 miles only through his land alone

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
  A 79-year-old landowner in western Georgia is challenging a major energy company after learning that a $3.5 billion natural gas pipeline project was moved away from a utility executive's home and routed across 2.5 miles of his private land. Donnie Peek bought his first 150-acre property in Muscogee County in 1967. Over the following decades, he expanded it into a 1,600-acre estate along the Chattahoochee River. After discovering the sudden route change, he filed a formal challenge with federal e
  
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• Hurricane Isaias lashes the US Gulf Coast with wind and rain as it nears the Florida Panhandle

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
  GULF BREEZE, Fla. (AP) — Intensifying winds whipped palm trees along the beaches of the Florida Panhandle and Alabama on Friday as Hurricane Isaias swirled just offshore, charging toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Category 3 storm weakened only slightly in the afternoon and was on course to arrive in the evening as a major hurricane — and the first hurricane of an unusually quiet Atlantic season. Tracking late Friday afternoon showed landfall would likely take place over the western pa
  
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• Florida ransomware expert said his company could decrypt attacks without paying hackers; prosecutors allege he charged victims more than $19 million while secretly sending over $8 million in ransom payments

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
  A Florida cybersecurity expert who claimed his company could recover data locked by ransomware without paying hackers has been charged with fraud in the United States. Federal prosecutors allege that Zohar Pinhasi, 50, secretly paid cybercriminals to obtain decryption keys while charging his clients much higher fees. According to the US Department of Justice, his company collected more than $19 million from clients and paid over $8 million in ransom payments.Pinhasi, who also used the names &ldq
  
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• A New York house built in 1728 was hidden inside later storefronts and saved from demolition in 2013; after a 13-year, $3 million restoration, Albany's oldest building has reopened to the public

  10-10-2026 01:25 via article.wn.com
  For decades, one of Albany’s oldest homes was hiding in plain sight. The Van Ostrande-Radliff House, built in 1728, had been absorbed into later commercial buildings and concealed behind storefronts as the neighbourhood changed around it. Its historic importance became clearer only after neighbouring structures were demolished and the house’s distinctive Dutch architecture was revealed. Now, after more than 13 years of planning, fundraising and construction, the building has reopened
  
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• U.S. stocks close higher as techs rebound

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday, capping a volatile week marked by elevated bond yields and elevated energy prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.83 percent to 51,654.95. The benchmark S&P 500 added 0.59 percent to 7,811.54, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.64 percent, finishing at 27,366.17. Nine of the 11 primary S&P 500 sectors closed in positive territory, with real estate and consumer discretionary pacing the...
  
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• US announces sanctions on ICC

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  The US yesterday announced sanctions on the International Criminal Court, vowing to cripple the tribunal’s operations just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize went to a former ICC judge who warned of mounting political attacks on the court. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington would ban transactions with what he called a “rogue court,” escalating a long-running campaign by President Donald Trump’s administration against the Hague-based tribunal. “Either the
  
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• UN chief condemns U.S. sanctions on ICC as a whole

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the U.S. sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution, his spokesman said Friday. "The secretary-general is...
  
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• Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ illegally stranded asylum seekers, judge says

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
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• ‘This is treason’: Trump outrages critics over plan to buy fuel from this country

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump was widely condemned Friday shortly after announcing he struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to lower diesel prices in America. ......
  
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• Teen mom at center of incest case may have fatally run over her newborn, cops say

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  Investigators say the...
  
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• South Sudan reports about 71 dead in Rumbek intercommunal fighting

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  JUBA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The South Sudanese government said on Friday that about 71 people, including soldiers, had been killed in communal clashes in Lakes State. The death toll from Friday's clashes that erupted in Rumbek town between rival communities is expected...
  
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• Soldier dies, 11 injured in southern Philippines ambush

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  MANILA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- A soldier injured in Thursday night's ambush in southern Philippines' Basilan province was declared dead on Friday, according to local...
  
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• Sexual assault survivor Nancy Mace appears to blast victim in ‘Cornell 7’ case

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  Nancy Mace suggested the Cornell University Jane Doe participated in a ‘consensual gangbang’...
  
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• See construction progress of Jacksonville airport's new Concourse B

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
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• Roundup: Yemen conflict escalates across multiple fronts as UN envoy warns of "full-scale" war

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  SANAA/RIYADH, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- More deaths and casualties were reported in Yemen and Saudi Arabia on Friday as the UN envoy for Yemen warned that the country had returned to "full-scale war," with hostilities spreading across multiple front lines. THREE KILLED IN RIYADH AIRPORT Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said on Friday that three Saudi citizens, including an airline pilot, were killed and a number of others of various nationalities were injured in two attacks tar
  
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• Putin, Trump hold phone talks on Ukraine crisis, energy supply

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, during which considerable attention was paid to prospects for resolving the Ukraine crisis, the Kremlin said....
  
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• Police official killed in roadside bombing in SE Iran -- media

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  TEHRAN, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The explosion of a roadside bomb in Iran's southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province on Friday killed a senior police official, the semi-official Tasnim...
  
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• Panama struck by powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake as nine countries issued tsunami warnings

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  The quake was...
  
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• Major earthquake strikes Panama, tsunami alerts issued

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  PANAMA CITY, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Panama on Friday, with its epicenter 39 kilometers northwest of Tonosi, a town in Los Santos province, according to a revised report from the...
  
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• Judge convicts 3 Mexicans in the killings of 2 Australian brothers and American friend on surf trip

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  The defendants were also found guilty of armed robbery and armed carjacking....
  
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• Hurricane Isaias heads towards Gulf Coast as houses evacuated amid flood and power outage warnings

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  The Category 3...
  
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• Ghana declares yellow fever outbreak as 3 die from infections

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  ACCRA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Ghanaian health authorities declared the outbreak of yellow fever in the country's Upper West Region in a release late Thursday. The release by the Ministry of Health said samples collected in the Wa West and Sissala West districts of the...
  
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• First aid convoy, relief workers reach Ethiopia's Tigray since renewed fighting: UN

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The first convoy of aid trucks and humanitarian personnel have reached Ethiopia's Tigray region since the latest outbreak of hostilities, UN humanitarians said Friday. The...
  
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• Feature: Young Zimbabweans explore employment opportunities with Chinese firms at job fair

  10-10-2026 01:08 via article.wn.com
  HARARE, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Job seekers on Friday attended the China-Zimbabwe Commodity Expo and Job Fair in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, hoping to connect with Chinese employers and explore career opportunities amid growing Chinese investment in the country. Organized by the China Zimbabwe Exchange Centre (CZEC), an organization dedicated to strengthening China-Zimbabwe ties, the three-day event running through Sunday brings together job seekers eager to launch their careers and employers looking
  
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