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• U.S. stocks close lower as Treasury yields touch multi-year highs

  08-10-2026 02:59 via article.wn.com
  A trader works on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, the United States, Oct. 7, 2026. U.S. stocks closed lower on Wednesday as benchmark Treasury yields touched multi-year highs. (Xinhua/Liu Yanan) NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks closed lower on Wednesday as benchmark Treasury yields touched multi-year highs. The Dow Jones...
  
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• US hits International Criminal Court with sweeping sanctions

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel. ......
  
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• Trump sows doubt on plan to livestream US military execution

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on whether authorities will livestream the firing squad execution of the perpetrator of a deadly attack on American soldiers, a plan that has drawn broad and bipartisan condemnation, it emerged on Saturday. Nidal Hasan’s execution — scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down 13 people in 2009 — is set to be the first by a US military firing squad since 1945. A Pentagon official told AFP on Thursday that the execut
  
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• Trump signs oil deal with Russia in big U-turn after his tariff tirade; Zelenskyy miffed

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump has announced that Russia has agreed to supply diesel immediately to the United States (US), as his administration aims to lower the increasing oil crisis before the November 3 midterm elections. ......
  
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• Trump fumes over 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, calls it 'disgraceful and embarrassing decision'

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  US President Donald Trump was left...
  
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• The Sabeti Case Is Not Just About Iran’s Past

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Four-minute read On October 6, a U.S. federal judge allowed a civil...
  
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• Taiwan National Day

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Dancers perform during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. ......
  
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• Taiwan cherishes peace but will not give up freedom, president says

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Taiwan cherishes peace but will not give up its freedom, and there must be respect for the right of Taiwan’s people to exist, President Lai Ching-te said on Saturday in a National Day speech, adding that boosting defences is not a provocation. Democratically governed Taiwan has faced increased military and political pressure from China, which views the island as its own territory over the strong objections of the government in Taipei. Facing China’s far larger military, which is addi
  
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• Spain’s slow response to the crisis in Ceuta leaves teen migrants on the streets

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of teenage migrants lined up outside a church in Ceuta in early October, hoping Spain’s visiting minister of youth would bring them some good news: passage to continental Europe or at least a spot in a shelter. For two months, they had slept on cardboard sheets and ripped sofas in squalid tent camps, or on the streets of the Spanish city in North Africa that juts into the Mediterranean like a thumb. On clear days, southern Spain is visible on the horizon.
  
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• South Korea Ceiling Collapse

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  A general view of a scene after parts of a plaster ceiling collapsed at a building in Daegu, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. ......
  
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• Simon strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane as it approaches Mexico

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  The forecast was upgraded as Simon approached Mexico's southwestern and west-central Pacific coast...
  
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• Second U.K. health body drops Israeli drugmaker Teva after pro-Palestinian pressure

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  'Those still taking Teva's money can no longer shelter behind the excuse that nothing can be done,' an NHS doctor told the Guardian, urging other medical bodies to follow suit ......
  
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• Saudi authorities: 3 killed in attacks on Riyadh airport

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — An airline pilot was among...
  
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• Russian strikes across Ukraine kill 3 people

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes killed three people and wounded at least eight across Ukraine, officials said Friday, as Ukraine struggles to counter escalating Russian bombardments that have killed more than 50 people over the past three days. ......
  
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• Russian attacks kill 8 in Ukraine after Trump strikes diesel deal with Putin

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Russian aerial bombs hit residential...
  
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• Russian attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia kills seven, governor says

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Ten others were ⁠wounded in the ‌attack, which the governor Mykhailo Semikin said hit ‌several locations ​at once in ⁠the early hours ⁠of October 10 ......
  
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• Powerful 7.7 quake hits Panama, damages buildings

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  A powerful 7.7-magnitude...
  
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• Pakistan reaffirms commitment to Saudi security at UN Security Council

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has reaffirmed its commitment to Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and security at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), declaring that it would stand “shoulder to shoulder” with the kingdom in the face of continued Houthi attacks. Addressing the UNSC’s monthly briefing on Yemen on Friday evening, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, condemned attacks on Saudi Arabia and called
  
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• Outrage over plan to livestream US military firing squad execution

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  C ondemnation of US plans for a public execution by military firing squad escalated Friday, as Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on whether it would be...
  
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• Meta To Alphabet: Top AI Companies To Drive Most Third-Quarter US Earnings Gains

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Technology stocks helped the S&P 500 reach a record high this week. The earnings season is expected to begin unofficially next week with results from JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. ......
  
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• India's 'cockroach' movement chief detained ahead of major protest

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Indian police detained the head of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) online movement on Saturday ahead of a major protest it called against the Election Commission, the party said. Abhijeet Dipke and two other leaders were detained before disembarking from a flight in the capital New Delhi, where the demonstration was due to take place, the youth-led CJP said in a social media post. India deployed thousands of police in its capital and restricted transportation in and around Delhi ahead
  
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• Indian-origin Navanethem Navi Pillay receives Nobel Peace Prize 2026

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday was conferred to Indian-origin Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay for her efforts to "promote peace and international law". Pillay is a human rights lawyer based in South Africa. ......
  
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• India Cockroach Protest

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  A female journalist is detained and taken away in a police van during a protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. ......
  
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• In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  At Tech Week in San...
  
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• ‘Gaza is a moral tear in the universe’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical ...

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Are we really living through ‘end times fascism’? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think so....
  
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• Gaza ceasefire marks one year with key pledges unmet

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  One year after a U.S.-brokered...
  
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• Founder of India’s Gen-Z ‘Cockroach’ movement detained ahead of planned protest, party says

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  New Delhi — Indian police boarded a plane on Saturday to detain the founder of a surging youth-led political movement as he landed in the capital New Delhi for a planned protest. Abhijeet Dipke was detained along with other leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, according to the group. The CJP started out in May as a Gen-Z internet joke that went viral. In July, it forced the government into its biggest climbdown in years. Now the party is back for what it is billing as Season 2 of its poli
  
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• EU envoy: EU and China strike interim trade deal

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  HONG KONG (AP) — The top trade envoys for China and the European Union agreed Friday on a broad initial deal following two days of talks aimed at calming escalating tensions over trade imbalances, the EU trade commissioner said. ......
  
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• Ethiopia tells UN it is acting in self-defense against Eritrea

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  Ethiopia has told the United Nations...
  
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• China adds 10.52-million urban jobs in January to September to roll out services jobs policy

  10-10-2026 11:10 via article.wn.com
  China added 10.52-million urban jobs in the first nine months of the year, meeting 87.7% of its annual target, the labour ministry said on Saturday. The ministry is also planning new measures...
  
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