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• US sanctions target Iran

  02-10-2026 06:47 via article.wn.com
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• World shares mixed after global bond sell-off deepens and ahead of US jobs data

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Global shares are mixed after a global bond sell-off deepened. Oil prices have declined even as the U.S. sends another aircraft carrier and more troops to the Middle East. U.S. futures have edged up ahead of a monthly jobs report ......
  
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• The nickel still costs more to make than its face value; the U.S. Mint shipped ...

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  For the past twenty years, the production of nickels has been...
  
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• ‘The Last First: Winter K2’: Review

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, the film forgoes the optimistic gloss typical of the genre and gets at the complex reasons that people scale peaks. ......
  
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• Tamil Nadu CM Vijay Turns Bus Conductor, Launches Expanded Free Travel Scheme for Women

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay briefly turned bus conductor on Friday, handing out free tickets to women passengers as he launched a major expansion of the state’s free bus travel scheme.Vijay was seen aboard a government bus in Chennai interacting with passengers and distributing tickets after launching the expanded Vetri Payanam scheme on Gandhi Jayanti, according to the Times of India.. The chief minister’s turn as a conductor quickly became the visual highlight of the
  
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• Syria Film Festival

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  An audience member records a screening on a mobile phone during the opening of the first Homs Short Film Festival inside the Homs cinema, which was destroyed during the war, in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. ......
  
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• South Korea issues stern warning to Ukraine: ‘Apologise or face further action’

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  South Korea issues stern warning to Ukraine: ‘Apologise or face further action’ South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung has issued a stern warning to Ukraine over the North Korean POW transfer row. In a recent warning, Lee threatened to take unspecific actions against Kyiv if the country fails to issue a public apology over violating the...
  
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• Smit Machchhar’s journey: From ‘why become a pilot?’ to ‘Captain, you are a hero’

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot praised for helping...
  
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• Pakistan’s Imran Khan protests choke cargo routes as truckers refuse to move north

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Pakistan's government has implemented measures to hinder supporters...
  
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• New book by vet attraction creator a ‘masterclass in experiential story making’

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  A new book by a veteran attraction creator...
  
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• Mideast Emergency Landing Indian Pilot

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  This screengrab from Narendra Modi YouTube Channel shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking with FlyDubai pilot Capt. Smit Machchhar on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. ......
  
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• Mahershala Ali and Bassam Tariq on Faith and Love in ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” was conceived well before the star and the director met for “Blade.” But it was fatherhood that informed the new movie. ......
  
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• Is the World Getting Uglier?

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  The modern right has a theory of beauty. Does the left? ......
  
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• Is a Trump Account the Best Way to Invest for Your Child? Try Our Calculator.

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Families also have options like 529 college plans and custodial brokerage accounts. Find out which one works best for you. ......
  
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• Indian pilot tells PM Modi he opened flydubai cockpit door during attack

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  The Indian pilot stabbed by his...
  
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• India Cockroach Protests

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Socialist, left-wing parties and student...
  
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• In This Utopian Video Game, It’s Always Sunny in Pittsburgh

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  An academic’s miniature Grand Theft Auto goes beyond critiquing capitalism to show what might come after. ......
  
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• In 2021, a former RAF site in Oxfordshire became 187 homes, with 160 made from old barracks, mess halls and stores once built for military life

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  A former Royal Air Force site in Caversfield, Oxfordshire, now contains 187 homes, with 160 of them sitting inside buildings that were originally designed for military life. Barracks and mess buildings at the former RAF Bicester domestic site were converted into homes, while 27 new houses were added around them.The residential development was known as the Garden Quarter, and occupies what was once the domestic side of RAF Bicester. It was separate from the technical site and airfield across the
  
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• In 2014, a Phoenix architect turned a discarded 1955 grain silo into a 340-square-foot home, using its curved shell and a skylight to add a second floor

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Phoenix architect Christoph Kaiser came across and bought a dismantled 1955 grain silo that was being sold online, and turned it into a 340-square-foot home in the Garfield Historic District of downtown Phoenix. The completed Silo House was designed as a two-story residence built within the silo’s existing steel shell.The silo had originally been built for agricultural use and was far from its eventual home in downtown Phoenix. Kaiser found the dismantled structure online and arranged to b
  
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• In 1991, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore paid $6 million for 24 Woodside acres; 30 years ...

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  In 1991, Gordon and Betty Moore acquired Mountain Meadow, a historic...
  
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• In 1977, Rich Man, Poor Man star Peter Strauss paid about $225,000 for a run-down ...

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Peter Strauss purchased a ranch in the Santa Monica...
  
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• In 1969, Frank Van Zant began building beside a Nevada highway; 20 years later, his ...

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  In the late 1960s, World War II veteran Frank Van Zant began...
  
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• In 1956, Houston postman Jeff McKissack began building with things he found on roadsides; 23 ...

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Jeff McKissack, a retired mail carrier, built the Orange...
  
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• ‘I was fighting for my life’: Pilot hailed as hero recalls FlyDubai cockpit attack

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  The pilot said he fought for his life after his co-pilot stabbed him. ......
  
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• I Was Biden’s Press Secretary. Trump Is Making the Same Mistake We Did.

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  When leaders ignore people’s lived experience, their political messaging collapses. ......
  
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• Hungary welcomes Ukraine’s bill boosting Hungarian minority rights

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Hungary has welcomed...
  
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• Here’s why there’s great Indian food at truck stops across California

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  This story really begins with butter chicken at a truck stop. Because my husband’s family lives in Northern California, for the past 20 years, to make it to family gatherings, we have regularly traveled up and down the 5, the ......
  
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• ‘Friday Night Lights’ at 20: Can We Ever Get Back to Dillon?

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  The football drama’s themes of community and hope are just as moving today, but ever more distant. ......
  
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• Forget Quiet Luxury. In Ancient Rome, the Fashion Was Loud.

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  An exhibition in Copenhagen reveals how imperial expansion delivered the vivid dyes, exotic fabrics and real-hair wigs that Romans used to broadcast their status. ......
  
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• Explained: Why didn't Christa Pike die despite two lethal injections? The first such case in ...

  02-10-2026 11:29 via article.wn.com
  Christa Pike's execution in Tennessee was unsuccessful after she received two doses of pentobarbital. Despite being strapped to a gurney, she remained alive, eventually being hospitalised. ......
  
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