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• U.S. forces disable cargo vessel in Gulf of Oman

  11-10-2026 04:48 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. forces struck and disabled a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman on...
  
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• Zelenskyy hits back after Trump's remark, says ready to hold Ukraine elections if Russia offers 60-day ceasefire

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that he would organise elections in Ukraine if Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a 60-day ceasefire, responding to criticism from US President Donald Trump over his leadership.'Please tell Putin, give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire, 60 days,...
  
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• Ukraine steps up attacks on Russian tech infrastructure, damages third data center

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  A Ukrainian drone strike damaged a data center operated by Russian technology major Yandex, forcing it to suspend operations, the company said on Sunday. The incident marked the third attack on the company's facilities in four days as Kyiv expands its strikes on infrastructure located deep inside Russian territory.The strike on the facility in Vladimir, east of Moscow, disrupted several Yandex services. Russian independent news outlet Astra reported that users across dozens of Russian cities, as
  
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• Trump, Rubio weigh removing ambassador to Greece amid alleged misconduct

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are reportedly considering removing the US ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, following several reports of alleged misconduct before and during her tenure in Athens.Guilfoyle is a former Fox News Channel host and California prosecutor who was once engaged to Trump’s son Donald Jr.On Sunday, a senior US official said Trump and Rubio were...
  
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• Syria Saudi Arabia Airport Attack

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  A portrait of Buthaina Ahmad Oweida, the Syrian woman who died in yesterday's attack on the Riyadh airport, is displayed on the mobile phone of her nephew at her family house, in her hometown of Hafasraja, Idlib province, Syria, Oct. ......
  
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• Stabbed engg student goes home from hosp

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Kolkata: The 20-year-old engineering student who sustained life-threatening stab injuries during an alleged altercation with a friend was discharged from hospital on Tuesday. The youth was stabbed on Sept 23 in front of a mall in New Town. Initially rushed to a nearby private hospital in a critical condition, he was later shifted to Manipal Hospital Broadway.Doctors said he had lost a lot of blood, was gasping and...
  
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• Snowfall strands tourists, bikers near Shinkula Top; mercury drops across state

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Shimla: Snowfall at high-altitude passes in Himachal Pradesh stranded six to seven tourists and bikers near Shinkula Top on Sunday, prompting police to launch a rescue operation.Police safely rescued the stranded bikers and sent around 15 to 20 vehicles back...
  
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• Senior citizen murdered at home in Palghar

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Palghar: A 61-year-old woman living alone in Palghar city was brutally murdered at her residence, with police suspecting robbery as the...
  
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• Punjab ASI shot dead by bike-borne assailants while returning home; police suspect link to nephew’s murder

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  TARN TARAN: An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) posted with the Counter Intelligence wing in Makhu was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants while returning home after duty late on Sunday evening. Police are probing a possible link to the murder of his nephew last month.The deceased, Iqbal Singh (55), a resident of Naushera Pannuan in Tarn Taran district, sustained two bullet injuries in the attack...
  
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• Police intensify checks in Kochi under Operation Toofan

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Kochi: City police intensified inspections as part of Operation Toofan, conducting raids at 153 locations during a special combing operation on Sunday night. Police registered 34 cases and arrested...
  
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• ‘Our seas, our land’: Sri Lanka assures India against hostile acts from its territory

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has assured that his country will not allow its territory or airspace to be used for activities that threaten India's security, reiterating Colombo's commitment to a strict non-aligned foreign policy amid the ongoing US-Iran conflict.Addressing a public gathering at Nikaweratiya in Sri Lanka's Northwestern Province on Sunday,...
  
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• 'Next PM Vijay 2029’: Placards trigger brief stir at PM Modi event in Chennai

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  NEW DELHI: A brief stir broke out at an official government function attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Chennai on Sunday after some people displayed placards projecting Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay as the “next PM”.The incident took place at the IIT Madras campus, where PM Modi was addressing a gathering after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone for projects worth around Rs 13,000 crore across Tamil Nadu.CM Vijay was also present at the event.During his
  
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• Mexico Extreme Weather Simon

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Tourists walk along the coast as Hurricane Simon approaches Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. ......
  
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• Max Verstappen wins first Singapore GP as Kimi Antonelli moves closer to F1 title

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Max Verstappen completed a perfect weekend in Singapore by winning his first-ever Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. The Red Bull driver led from pole position to take victory in the 62-lap race, while Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli finished third to strengthen his position in the Formula One title race. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc finished second, while Antonelli's closest title rival and teammate George Russell could manage only...
  
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• Man kills 70-year-old father over suspicion of wife’s affair in Dombivli

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Kalyan: A 70-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by his 32-year-old son at their residence in the Pisavli area of Dombivli on Friday morning, reportedly after the man developed suspicions about his wife’s alleged extramarital...
  
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• Iranian protester hanged hours after marrying jailed fiancee over phone in prison ceremony

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  An Iranian anti-regime protester was hanged just hours after marrying his imprisoned fiancee over a prison phone line, in a heartbreaking ceremony arranged as the couple feared they might never get another chance to be together, according to a report by the New York Post.Alireza Sepahi, 25, and Mahshad Keshani, 22, were arrested during anti-government protests earlier this year. Sepahi was sentenced to death,...
  
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• Iran calls US response to seven-day Hormuz proposal ‘insufficient’

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei said on Sunday that Washington’s response to Tehran’s seven conditions for reopening the strategic Strait of Hormuz was “insufficient”, Iranian state media reported.Rezaei said the...
  
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• Iran-backed Houthis claim Saudi airport attack that killed 12 as Middle East tensions rise

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for Saturday's deadly attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, which killed 12 people and injured more than 300, as a fresh projectile struck the airport complex on Sunday, raising fears of a wider escalation in the Middle East conflict.The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said Sunday's projectile hit Terminal 4 of the airport, causing a fire. Saudi air defences also intercepted a cruise missile near the
  
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• Inaccessible banking, insurance leave disabled people struggling for financial cover

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Mumbai: Arman Ali could not access his matured fixed deposit for years because his bank branch lacked a lift. The executive director of National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), who has cerebral palsy and an 80% locomotor disability, also spent seven years securing health insurance after being rejected by four providers.“Who will pay me the cost of exclusion?” he asked at a stakeholder consultation on financial inclusion, underscoring the structural an
  
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• In 2025, UK researchers developed self-healing bitumen with oil-filled plant spores, building on earlier lab tests where aged bitumen cracks healed in about 50 minutes

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Researchers have developed a self-healing road material that repairs small cracks before they develop into potholes. The material is made of porous plant spores filled with recycled oils, which are released under pressure from passing traffic. It works by softening the bitumen, letting it flow into cracks and sealing them without the need for any human intervention.According to the Guardian, the research involved a collaboration of scientists with Swansea University and King's College London, al
  
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• In 2025, California began filling a 750-acre expansion of the Salton Sea wetlands; the project aims to create wildlife habitat while reducing dust from the drying shoreline

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  As the Salton Sea recedes, the exposed lakebed creates two major environmental concerns: habitat loss and dust that wind can carry into nearby communities. California reached a restoration milestone in 2025 when water began filling the East Pond Expansion, part of the state's Species Conservation Habitat (SCH) Project. The East Pond Expansion covers approximately 750 acres. Together with the existing East Pond, the two ponds account for a combined area of approximately 2,000 acres.The East Pond
  
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• In 2019, former WWE champion Chris Jericho bought a $3.255 million, 6.5-acre Florida lake estate, then listed his older lakefront home with 175 feet of shoreline for $1.149 million

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  The Tampa Bay Times reported that Chris Jericho purchased a gated lakefront estate on Lake Keystone in Odessa, Florida, for $3.255 million in February 2019. The property covers 6.5 acres, although some reports round the figure to six acres. In May 2019, the Los Angeles Times reported that Jericho had listed his previous Lake Breckenridge home for $1.149 million. The...
  
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• In 2009, Indiana mixed old roofing shingles into a US Route 6 warm-asphalt trial; the road became a real-world durability test, not just a lab experiment

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  When a roof is redone, the old shingles are often taken to a landfill and dumped. US highway agencies have investigated recycling asphalt shingles in pavement for about 25 years, initially using manufacturing waste and later examining shingles removed from existing roofs. These tear-off shingles are harder to reuse because they come from different rooftops and have weathered for years in sun and rain. Engineers therefore needed field evidence to assess how they would perform in real traffic cond
  
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• In 1993, Bill Clinton proposed a Pacific Northwest forest plan after a bitter logging fight; the final 1994 framework covered about 24.5 million federal acres

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  In 1993, US President Bill Clinton encountered a bitter conflict in the Pacific Northwest, where timber workers and logging companies clashed with environmentalists over the future of the region’s old-growth forests. Timber sales were disrupted because of the dispute. Additionally, it affected forest-dependent communities and eventually triggered legal battles over the protection of threatened wildlife.On July 1, 1993, Clinton announced a proposed forest-management strategy which intended
  
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• In 1982, Ronald Reagan addressed federal spending on risky coastal construction; he restricted subsidies; a 3.8-million-acre coastal system emerged

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Some of America’s most vulnerable terrain consists of barrier islands, sand spits, and the marshes behind them. Every time a hurricane passes, seawater finds its way over them, storms toss them about, and waves strip them. However, for much of the 20th century, federal policies quietly reduced the cost of building there. The same stretches of shoreline were often repaired at public expense after each storm, and flood insurance, road funds, and disaster assistance reinforced the pattern.Tha
  
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• Green cards not key to workforce strategy: TCS CEO

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Bengaluru: TCS CEO K Krithivasan said green cards have never been a key part of the company’s workforce strategy, as it has significantly reduced permanent residency applications for H-1B employees and stepped up local hiring in the US. The company said the US suspension of green card processing would not fundamentally alter its talent management approach.“In the last few years, what Sudeep (CHRO) and his team have been applying for is a single-digit kind of green card permanent resi
  
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• Florida approved permanent protection for 1,034 acres of Limestone Creek Ranch, a 70-year cattle operation once owned by a governor; the $6.52 million easement keeps the land working inside the Wildlife Corridor

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Florida approved a $6.52 million conservation easement last month to protect Limestone Creek Ranch in Hardee County from future development.The 1,034-acre property, which was formerly owned by Governor Doyle E. Carlton, has supported cattle ranching for more than 70 years. The agreement was approved by Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on September 29, 2026, as part of a wider round of conservation...
  
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• Egypt’s ancient Fayoum portraits to be exhibited abroad for first time

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Egypt on Sunday presented a restored version of the “Tondo of the Two Brothers”, a celebrated painting dating to the second century and part of the renowned Fayoum portrait collection.The restoration took three weeks, with experts from Rome working alongside conservators at the Egyptian museum in Tahrir, where the collection is normally housed, officials said at a press...
  
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• EDITORIAL: The world watches

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
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• D’QUEEN eyes international breakthrough following UK tour

  11-10-2026 20:40 via article.wn.com
  Emerging dancehall artiste D’QUEEN is looking to build on the momentum gained from a month-long tour of the United Kingdom in September, an experience she believes has opened new doors for her career and strengthened her determination to make her mark on the international music scene. The St Catherine-born entertainer, who has been steadily working to establish herself in the competitive dancehall industry, performed at several events alongside reggae artiste Teflon and experienced the pop
  
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