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• Software development and rules stability: Prototype racing in 2030

  15-10-2026 01:38 via article.wn.com
  IMSA provided accommodation so Ars could attend the Petit Le Mans. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. The rising tide that has been the Drive to Survive effect has lifted more boats in motorsport than simply Formula 1’s. Sportscar racing is...
  
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• Woman charged after allegedly poisoning colleague’s curry lunch with snail pellets

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  Western Australia police say woman ‘experienced numbness to her tongue’ after tasting the curry at her workplace in Perth...
  
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• Video: iPhones, luxury perfume bottles float in Hormuz after cargo ship hits mine

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  Video: iPhones, luxury perfume bottles float in Hormuz after cargo ship hits mine ......
  
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• US court blocks sanctions on groups assisting ICC Gaza investigation

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  A US federal judge has issued a...
  
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• Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, Moscow and Kyiv officials say, after brief truce ...

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, Moscow and Kyiv officials say, after brief truce spurned by Russia. Source ......
  
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• Trump's new press secretary faces scrutiny over credentials

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  The White House was facing mounting questions over new press secretary Katie Zacharia's legal credentials, after a faltering first day in the job when she gave an inconclusive answer about where she had passed the bar exam. A US watchdog group filed a complaint with the State Bar of California, asking it to investigate whether President Donald Trump's spokeswoman - the public face of the administration - had broken the law by repeatedly presenting herself as a lawyer without a licence. Campaign.
  
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• Trump might opt for an all-out war with Iran: Trita Parsi

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  Trita Parsi, speaking on The Hindu’s The View from India podcast, analyses U.S. President Donald Trump’s possible all-out Iran war, regional power dynamics, and the shifting Gulf security landscape ......
  
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• Trudy strengthens to a hurricane as system nears Mexico’s coast with major storm expected

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  MIAMI (AP) — Trudy intensified into a Category 1 hurricane as it approached the Pacific coast of Mexico, authorities said...
  
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• ‘The world is falling apart’: Dominic Cooke plans boldly political first season at Almeida

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  Exclusive: London theatre’s new artistic director working with David Tennant and Caryl Churchill as he wrestles with Britain’s decline – and with smart glasses...
  
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• Thailand, Switzerland push to fast-track EFTA trade deal

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  BANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Thailand and Switzerland on Thursday pushed to bring a new free trade agreement into force as quickly as possible, as Swiss President Guy Parmelin made the first official visit...
  
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• Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as global investors fret over potential interest rate hikes...
  
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• Takaichi may revise wording on Japan's three non-nuclear principles: media

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  TOKYO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested in parliament on Wednesday that the wording concerning the Three Non-Nuclear Principles could be revised in the country's three key security documents, which the government plans to update by the end of this year, the Nikkei newspaper reported...
  
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• Ship catches fire in Black Sea near Romania, 8 people missing

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  SOFIA, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A vessel sailing under the flag of San Marino caught fire in the Black Sea near Romania on Thursday...
  
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• School roof collapse kills at least 29, injures more than 50 in Pakistan

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The roof of a private school collapsed in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 28 children and a teacher and injuring more than 50 other people, authorities and a hospital official said. All of the children killed or injured at Al-Khair school were age 13 or younger, Lady Reading Hospital spokesman Mohammad Asim said. Some of the injured were in critical condition, he said. The hospital declared an emergency as medical staff tr
  
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• Saudi-led coalition says cruise missile intercepted, destroyed in Medina region

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  RIYADH, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen...
  
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• Russia's top security agency says it arrested a Swedish man on suspicion of sabotage

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top domestic security agency said Thursday it has arrested a Swedish citizen on charges of illegally...
  
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• Russia, India carry out joint military drills

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  VLADIVOSTOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A joint Russian-Indian exercise involving various military branches has kicked off in the...
  
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• Russia detains Swedish national accused of plotting attacks on military facilities

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A Swedish citizen allegedly heading to Russia to commit attacks on military sites was detained for illegally crossing the border in the country's...
  
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• Rubio urges restraint over Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions as rights group reports civilians killed

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for de-escalation in the Horn of Africa amid fighting in northern Ethiopia and heightened tensions with neighboring Eritrea. Rubio spoke by phone with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday, urging dialogue under a peace deal agreed between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 2018. He said the region could not tolerate more conflict, according to a statement from the State Department. Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia&r
  
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• Romanian authorities launch rescue after another Black Sea ship fire leaves 8 missing

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities launched search and rescue operations off the Black Sea coast Thursday after a fire broke out on board a ship, leaving eight people missing. Four were rescued. The cause of the fire aboard the San Marino-flagged Wine Trader, a chemical tanker traveling from Tunisia to Romania, was not immediately clear, but a recent spate of drone...
  
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• Rewilding could help tiny islands withstand rising seas: study

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  WELLINGTON, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Protecting seabirds and restoring native vegetation could help low-lying tropical atoll islands withstand rising sea levels by boosting coral reef growth and reducing erosion, a new study has found. An international team analyzed...
  
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• Peshawar school roof collapse: 18 dead and dozens trapped in Pakistan tragedy

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  At least 17 children and a teacher died after a private school roof collapsed in Peshawar, Pakistan. Emergency rescue operations are currently underway. ......
  
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• Pakistan school roof collapse leaves at least 27 students dead

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  Death toll likely to rise as rescuers in Peshawar work to find dozens of pupils still unaccounted for...
  
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• Nepal explores disaster financing mechanism in wake of devastating floods

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  KATHMANDU, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Nepal and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the lending arm of the World Bank Group, signed a mandate agreement to explore the development of a catastrophe bond to help Nepal access funds quickly in case of a major earthquake,...
  
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• Myanmar marks World Standards Day 2026

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  YANGON, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar marked World Standards Day 2026 at the Ministry of Science and Technology in Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday, the state-owned daily...
  
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• ‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success...
  
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• LGBTQ+ people go into hiding in Senegal as hundreds are arrested

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  At least 320 people detained for ‘acts against nature’ after law criminalising homosexuality toughened, HRW reports...
  
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• Key US voters say economy is getting worse ahead of midterms, exclusive poll finds

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  Nearly 61% believe country is in recession and 65% of independents say economy is worse, according to new Harris poll...
  
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• Japan's Nikkei suffers 3rd largest single-day point loss on AI, chip sell-off

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  TOKYO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks ended sharply lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index suffering its third-largest single-day point drop, shedding over 3,300 points, as selling spread across a broad range of stocks related to...
  
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• Israeli rights groups report a surge of Palestinian inmates being shot with rubber bullets

  15-10-2026 12:38 via article.wn.com
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Two of Israel’s leading human rights groups are sounding the alarm about a surge of mostly Palestinian inmates being shot by guards with rubber bullets at close range and, in some cases, suffering severe injuries. Palestinians have long faced harsh treatment in Israeli prisons, but rights groups say conditions have deteriorated dramatically since the war in Gaza began more than three years ago. Physicians for Human Rights Israel and the Public Committee Agains
  
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