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• Voting closes for Fat Bear Week Tuesday evening

  29-09-2026 18:55 via article.wn.com
  Fat Bear Week's bracket leaves two final competitors: bear 910, a ten-year-old mama bear, and bear 89, or "Backpack," nicknamed for riding on his mother's back in the 2006 Fat Bear Week competition. Voting closes at 7 p.m. Mountain time on Tuesday. ......
  
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• Ukraine rolls out kamikaze ‘zombie cars’ to blow up Russian defenses and capture 250 soldiers

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  Ukraine transformed Soviet-era armored vehicles into unmanned “zombie cars” that blew away Russian defenses and allowed Kyiv to capture 250 Moscow soldiers, officials said. As part of Operation Vivaldi, which saw the liberation of three Ukrainian villages on Monday, Kyiv’s troops unleashed a squad of self-driving BTR-60 armored vehicles that slammed into Russia’s most heavily fortified positions in the city of Nove. Footage from the frontline battle showed how the armored
  
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• Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster. ......
  
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• Top tech firms have signed accord to ‘self-police’ AI development, Trump says

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  The president repeatedly praised the business executives for developing a technology that he said would produce “unbelievable growth.” ......
  
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• The Latin American Right’s Big Bet

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  The Trump administration is exerting new levels of control over the region. What’s the next move? ......
  
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• Sudan’s cholera crisis: How war turned a preventable disease deadly

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  Cholera is an ancient disease, but it is also one of the most preventable and treatable infectious diseases known to medicine. With safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, timely surveillance, vaccination and rapid access to treatment, countless infections and deaths can be avoided. Yet Sudan’s devastating cholera outbreak of 2024 and 2025 demonstrated how quickly those protections can collapse when war destroys the systems that keep communities safe. According to the World Health Organi
  
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• Shocking moment staffers kick terrified woman’s legs away to make her take 260-foot thrill jump

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  A petrified tourist was forced to take a 260-foot canyon plunge against her wishes – with shocking video showing instructors kicking her legs away as she begged not to jump. The crying woman desperately tried to fight her way back from the ledge as laughing instructors tried to force her to jump off with a harness — with her husband seemingly the one filming her ordeal. “Please...
  
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• ‘Scum of the earth’ tourists ignite international backlash after filming themselves riding egg-laying sea turtle

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  Oh, shell no! A Ukrainian couple is being raked over the coals online after they filmed themselves riding a nesting sea turtle down a beach. Vadym Oleynik, 32, a fitness influencer and self-proclaimed calisthenics champion, and his partner Olena Kravchenko, a cosmetic doctor, had been sightseeing in Ras al Hadd, a coastal paradise off Oman where several species of sea turtles come ashore to nest. Despite being accompanied by environmental volunteers monitoring the site, the bozos decided it was
  
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• Rubio: New US site lets Americans apply online for passport

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  President Trump’s new artificial intelligence website allows for Americans to apply for passports online, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday. ......
  
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• Persian Gulf oil exports hit 72% of prewar levels — as US says Iran is ...

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  The oil is flowing again in the Persian Gulf — even as Iran is choking on fumes. Oil exports from the region have rebounded to 72% of pre-war levels and crude flow through the Strait of Hormuz is now a little under half what it was before the war, according to analysts. Meanwhile, Iran appears to be running on fumes, according to US officials — who say the country is being “strangled” by the US Navy blockade that has locked out Iran’s ports and caused its trade to f
  
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• Passengers allegedly forced to sit in ‘wet seats’ on Emirates plane after water leaked from ...

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  Originally Published by: This is the shocking moment water appears to leak from the roof of a luxurious Emirates plane onto passengers below. Footage appears to show water dripping from the ceiling inside the Airbus A380 as distressed travellers were left with no choice but to remain in their seats. Flight EK123 was travelling for almost five hours from Dubai to Istanbul on September 17, when the incident...
  
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• Man City guilty of almost all the 115 financial breaches, Premier League says in explosive verdict

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  The Premier League says Manchester City has been found guilty of almost all of the 115 charges of financial wrongdoing in one of the biggest scandals in English soccer history. City now faces severe sanctions that could include a huge ......
  
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• Jurassic World’s New Monster Comes From a Part of Dinosaur History the Franchise Rarely Touches

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  Credits: Universal Pictures Jurassic World has added a new monster to one spin-off of the franchise. The new dinosaur, along with four others, comes from a part of dinosaur history that the franchise seldom explores. The latest expansion of Jurassic World Evolution 3 is titled Prehistoric East. It introduces the latest theropod addition to the game’s already bloodthirsty roster, Tarbosaurus. While a free base-game...
  
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• Inside Putin’s ultra-secret doomsday bunker that guarantees ‘mutual destruction’ if West attacks

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has been quietly upgrading a secret, Cold War-era command center deep inside a mountain that can withstand American bunker-buster bombs and guarantee mutually assured destruction in the event of nuclear war. A recent investigation into the Kremlin bunker at Kosvinsky Kamen mountain, in the Urals 800 miles east of Moscow, revealed that the Russian Ministry of Defense has been working on a major modernization project at the site since 2018, according to The Sunday
  
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• In 2009, two former Royal Marines rowed from Japan to San Francisco; 189 days and almost 7,000 miles later they set a Pacific record

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  For months, the Pacific offered Mick Dawson and Chris Martin little indication that their destination was getting any closer. They left Choshi (Japan), in a small rowing boat in 2009, expecting a long passage across one of the world's largest stretches of open water. Instead, wind and currents repeatedly pushed them away from their intended line. By the time they finally reached San Francisco, their route had stretched to almost 7,000 miles. They had spent 189 days at sea, rowing in shifts, slee
  
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• Hampden bow ruined as Sebastien Pocognoli left to address an unwanted 55-year Scotland first

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  Early red card for Jack Hendry renders Switzerland match a useless exercise ......
  
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• Andre Drummond takes his place with the Knicks as the NBA champions' lone newcomer of note

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Andre Drummond was a Knicks fan growing up just outside New York City and recognized right away when they had finally put together a team that could win a title. ......
  
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• 6 Takeaways From Ezra Klein’s Interview With Bill Gates

  30-09-2026 00:26 via article.wn.com
  The technologist and philanthropist offers a blunt warning on A.I. risks. ......
  
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• World News in Brief: Deadly Myanmar strikes as Malaysia begins deportations, new emergency funding released, ...

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  The UN chief on Tuesday...
  
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• US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  The Trump administration has withdrawn the...
  
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• UN chief calls for nuclear disarmament efforts

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for efforts to forge a new path toward a world free of nuclear weapons. Nuclear disarmament is not a favor, it is a binding legal obligation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, he said at a...
  
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• Trump's border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  An ancient ground carving that was severely damaged by the administration’s border wall construction was created before Stonehenge and Egypt’s oldest pyramid, according to recently publicized research. The Las Playas Intaglio, a giant fish carved into the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, is now considered the oldest example in the Americas of a geoglyphic, the ancient art form that is carved into or drawn on the ground. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are WATCH HERE In April, con
  
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• Trump says top tech firms have signed accord to ‘self-police’ AI development

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews of the technology during a meeting at the White House. “I think I’m seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police,” Trump told reporters outside the West Wing. The announcement followed an extensive meeting between Trump and numerous l
  
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• South Africa welcomes market access for cherry exports to China

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's Cabinet on Tuesday welcomed a major milestone for the country's agricultural sector following the official grant of entry for South African cherries into the lucrative Chinese market. The market-access protocol was signed between South African Minister of Agriculture Willie Aucamp and a representative...
  
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• Russian president Putin’s secret nuclear command bunker amid tensions with West: Report

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  The site is associated with Russia’s Perimeter nuclear command system, known in the West as “Dead Hand”. ......
  
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• Qatar says contacts ongoing to bridge differences between U.S., Iran

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  DOHA, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Qatar said Tuesday that meetings and contacts aimed at bridging differences between the United States and Iran are continuing, with Doha exchanging messages between the two sides and seeking to build common ground toward...
  
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• Pakistan vows to defend Saudi Arabia against Iran-backed Houthis by ‘whatever means’

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  Pakistan's defense minister says his...
  
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• News Analysis: What does Netanyahu's surprise UAE visit signal?

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  JERUSALEM, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a surprise, low-profile visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday and met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The trip was not initially made public by either side and was first disclosed by Israel's Channel 12 on Sunday evening. Both sides subsequently confirmed the visit on Monday. WHAT WAS DISCUSSED? Netanyahu traveled by private plane to Abu Dhabi, with senior officials, including the he
  
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• News Analysis: Jobs, housing shape when young Europeans leave home

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  WARSAW, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Job prospects, housing affordability and family traditions help explain why young Europeans leave the parental home at widely varying ages, according to the latest Eurostat data. In Finland, young people left home at an average age of 21.4 in 2025, compared with 31.5 in Croatia -- a gap of about a decade within the European Union (EU). Employment data reveal a clear divide across the bloc. In 2025, 65.5 percent of people aged 20 to 29 in the EU were employed. Eurosta
  
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• Italy-China ties positive, AI cooperation important, says Italian deputy PM

  30-09-2026 00:03 via article.wn.com
  ROME, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Relations between Italy and China are "very positive," and the bilateral relationship is "excellent, constructive and dynamic," Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini has said. Salvini...
  
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