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• Starbucks reportedly exploring Chipotle takeover

  08-10-2026 21:26 via article.wn.com
  Move would reunite chief executive Brian Niccol with chain he led before joining coffee company two years ago...
  
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• Young, pregnant and desperate: Aid cuts risk Mozambique’s teen pregnancy fight

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  ‘When girls are not in...
  
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• World can see the truth: Iran accuses US, Israel of fuelling West Asia instability

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  World can see the truth: Iran accuses US, Israel of fuelling West Asia instability ......
  
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• Why India's tens of millions of voter deletions have led to widespread protests

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  India’s verification exercise of its nearly one billion voters has sparked protests across the country, with opposition parties alleging that the removal of 130 million names from electoral rolls has unfairly benefited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party. Opposition parties and the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party are demanding the ouster of Election Commission chief Gyanesh Kumar and have vowed a huge protest ​in the capital, Delhi, on Saturday. Election Commission data cited
  
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• Who is Navi Pillay, Indian-origin Tamil South African jurist who won Nobel Peace

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
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• Who is Anne Carson? The Nobel winner who puts ancient Greek in modern poetry

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, translator and scholar of ancient Greek, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy cited a “bold and inventive” body of work, and said she makes new forms by bringing classical tradition into contemporary writing. Anne Carson, the Canadian...
  
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• Vance says he does not like officials selling access, but will not judge the Guilfoyle texts

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Vice President JD Vance said he does not like anyone selling access to a government official, after a report that Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, texted a Trump donor to ask for money. He would not say the case matched the question he was asked. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that days before her Senate confirmation hearing on 9 July 2025,...
  
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• USS Lincoln returns home after troubled Gulf deployment | Kuwait Times Newspaper

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  SAN DIEGO: Thousands of...
  
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• US public executions were once a community spectacle. The country thought they stopped

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Parents and teachers would often bring children to executions...
  
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• US Ends Special Visa Scrutiny of Greece After a Decade

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  The United States has restored Greece to normal status under its Visa Waiver Program, ending more than a decade of additional scrutiny over the country’s travel document and border security systems. The decision was confirmed on Tuesday when US Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Robert...
  
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• UN warns Gaza faces grim winter without shelter | Kuwait Times Newspaper

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  GENEVA: Nearly all of...
  
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• Trump insists work on Reflecting Pool is complete - despite workers still at the site

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Trump claimed that...
  
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• South Korea test fires its domestically-built hypersonic missile amid border row with North

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Surprise missile test seen as Seoul’s response to North Korea following border mine blast...
  
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• South Africa's Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Navanethem “Navi” Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” the...
  
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• Shark attack survivor says predator 'winked' at him as he fought it off

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Mel Ismail has revealed new details of his near-death encounter...
  
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• Saudia pilot, 2 others killed in Houthi attack on Riyadh Airport

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s national carrier, Saudia, on Friday, October 9, confirmed that one of its employees, a pilot, was killed in the Houthi-claimed attacks on Thursday, October 8. “The incident also caused damage to one of its aircraft while it was on the ground at the airport. No passengers were on board the aircraft at the time of the incident,”...
  
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• Saudia confirms pilot killed, aircraft damaged in Riyadh airport attack

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Riyadh: A Saudia Airlines pilot was killed and an aircraft was damaged in Riyadh airport on Thursday, the company said on Friday, following strikes targeting the facility that were ......
  
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• Saudi authorities say 3 were killed in attacks on Riyadh airport claimed by Houthi rebels

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Saudi aviation authorities say three...
  
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• Saudi Arabia says 3 killed in attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid airport

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Saudi Arabia said on Friday that three citizens were killed in two attacks Thursday targeting King Khalid International Airport...
  
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• Russia’s Yandex says second data centre hit by drone attack

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Russian technology and AI company Yandex said on Friday that several modules at its data centre in Russia’s Kaluga region had been completely disabled by a drone attack, the second in two days. Some of the...
  
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• RSF warns Greek authorities over China-backed influencers and undeclared ties

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  On 27 November 2025 a Facebook video from the page of Chinese influencer Iro Li tore through Greek feeds. In fluent Greek she criticised Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador, and the clip drew more than 610,000 views within days. The politics sat oddly against the rest of the page, which is built from food, travel and everyday life aimed at Greek viewers. That mismatch is what press-freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) treats as the opening of a quieter campaign: lifestyle accounts that
  
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• Pilot among 3 Saudi nationals killed in attacks on Riyadh airport, authorities say

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said on Friday that three Saudi nationals ​were killed and several people were injured in ‌two attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Thursday. In a statement on X, the General Authority of Civil Aviation said the ​first attack targeted airport facilities, while the second ​struck an aircraft belonging to Saudi state carrier Saudia. The ⁠injuries ranged from minor to severe, and the attacks ​cause
  
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• OpenAI says it banned accounts linked to Russian, Iranian influence operations

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  OpenAI said Thursday it banned accounts linked to covert influence operations originating in Russia and Iran that used its artificial intelligence tools in attempts to shape public opinion abroad. The company said in a blog post the operations combined AI with traditional influence techniques, using seemingly legitimate research platforms and fabricated journalist identities to spread geopolitical messages. The Russian-linked campaign used a purported research platform focused on Latin America,
  
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• Noida Jewar airport is now Narendra Modi International Airport: How are airports named, renamed?

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet\u2019s...
  
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• Nobel Peace Prize 2026 Winner: Indian-origin South African jurist Navanethem \u2018Navi\u2019 Pillay gets Nobel Peace Prize 2026

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Nobel Peace Prize in 2026 Winner:...
  
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• Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in international justice

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a former...
  
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• Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize 2026: Bus driver\u2019s daughter who took on apartheid

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Born in Durban on September 23,...
  
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• Mitsotakis says Rubio visit confirmed Greece as a strategic partner

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Marco Rubio’s visit left a positive impression and underlined Greece’s role as an irreplaceable strategic partner in the eastern Mediterranean. In a Friday interview on SKAI radio, he said the trip was held within the Strategic Dialogue and that Rubio rarely makes such visits. He went to India once last year and spent 36 hours in Greece. “The context of Greek-American relations is excellent,” Mitsotakis said. “The deepening of
  
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• Indian origin South African jurist Navanethem Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  Indian origin South African jurist Navanethem Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize ......
  
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• India responds to US decision on green card restrictions

  09-10-2026 12:25 via article.wn.com
  New Delhi: India on Friday, October 9, reacted sharply to the US decision on the permanent labour certification programme for certain leading IT companies, including a number of Indian giants. “We are aware of the US Department of Labour’s decision concerning the Permanent...
  
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