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• World's first nuclear clock is ready: What is it, and why does it matter?

  08-10-2026 12:03 via article.wn.com
  Worlds first nuclear clock is ready What is it and why does it matter ......
  
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• Ukraine steps up strikes on Russia’s tech infrastructure, damaging third data center in 4 days

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  A Ukrainian drone attack shut down a data center run by Russian technology giant Yandex, the company said Sunday, the third strike on its facilities in four days as Kyiv widens its campaign against infrastructure deep inside Russia. The attack on the data center in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow, caused outages across Yandex’s services, leaving users in dozens of Russian cities and in Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia unable to order taxis or access banking services, according to Russi
  
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• Tesla CEO Musk Backs Trump's Call for Ukraine's New Leader

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that 'Ukraine needs a new president.' Recently, U.S. President Donald Trump has made similar remarks. CEO Musk commented on a post by an X (formerly Twitter)...
  
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• Republican lawmakers oppose Trump's Russian diesel deal

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily ease sanctions against Russia and import Russian oil has drawn opposition from within the Republican Party. According to the New York Times (NYT) on October 10 (local time), former Representative Mike Rogers, a candidate in Michigan’s federal Senate...
  
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• Pope Leo XIV says he will undergo surgery to remove a nodule on his lung

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV says he will undergo surgery to remove a nodule on his lung. Source ......
  
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• Pakistan’s president suspends provincial government led by Khan’s party ahead of march

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday declared a state of emergency in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan and suspended its government, which is led by imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party,...
  
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• Man accused of child rape set to become police chief in small Louisiana town

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  Republican Christopher Paul is running unopposed for seat despite allegations he raped two girls 20 years ago...
  
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• Labour has got the message – developing nations suffer most from bond market turmoil | ...

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  Just as Brown and Blair did in 2005, Andy Burnham aims to champion debt relief to help developing countries...
  
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• India’s ‘Cockroach’ protest movement leaders freed from detention

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Leaders of the Cockroach Janata Party, an Indian youth movement, were released Sunday, a day after they were detained ahead of protests against a contentious revision of voter lists. The movement is demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief. The three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and...
  
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• Former Irish Olympic swimming coach and child abuser George Gibney to be sentenced

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  Gibney, 77, will face justice for abusing athletes in the 1970s and 80s after decades of effort to track and extradite him...
  
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• Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear ...

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  This is no scoffing matter. The accelerating proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons is bringing ‘end times’ closer by the day...
  
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• Czech opposition outpaced the ruling party in first round of Senate election

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  PRAGUE (AP) — A political group led by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš faced a strong challenge from the opposition in the Czech Republic’s first round of voting to fill one-third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house, the Senate, according to the final results released on Sunday. With all...
  
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• Cubans turn to free community pharmacies as medicines grow scarce

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  HAVANA (AP) — Every Thursday and Sunday at noon, dozens of people gather outside an apartment building in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood. Laura Mendoza comes downstairs, checks their names against a list and hands out medicine they requested through WhatsApp. Antihistamines, diuretics, eye drops and antibiotics are among the drugs she distributes. She charges nothing. Projects like Mendoza’s, called “Medicine Is Not for Sale,” have become a lifeline for Cubans struggl
  
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• Britain stands behind Zelenskyy, says Streeting after Trump’s call for new leader in Ukraine

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  Defence secretary backs Ukrainian president and says priority is to maintain western unity over Russia conflict...
  
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• After RAF Fairford incident, how big a threat to the UK is Iran?

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  Although there is scepticism about Tehran’s capabilities, it has become clear it wants Britain to feel it poses a risk...
  
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• A dozen killed in Saudi Arabian airport attack

  11-10-2026 13:44 via article.wn.com
  An attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital has left at least 12 people dead and more than 300 people injured. ......
  
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• Yemen’s Houthis renew warning to airlines, travellers against using Saudi airports (updated)

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  Yemen’s Houthis warned airlines, travellers and airport workers on Sunday to stay away from Saudi airports, a day after an attack on Riyadh’s international airport killed 12 people and wounded more than 300 others. It was the deadliest such attack in the kingdom in more than a decade and comes amid an escalation of fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces. “We renew our warning to all airlines, experts, employees, workers and travellers
  
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• World Health Summit 2026: Berlin Becomes Global Meeting Point for the Future of Health

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  The World Health Summit (WHS) 2026, the leading platform for global health, brings together more than 4,000 participants from 130 countries in Berlin and tens of thousands more online from October 11 to 13. Under the theme "From Crisis to ......
  
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• Trump says Zelenskiy ‘better damn well stop’ hitting Russian refineries, urges new leader

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  US President Donald Trump on Saturday called for new leadership in Ukraine, slamming...
  
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• Multiple people wounded in blast at Riyadh airport, say eyewitnesses

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  Many people were wounded in a blast at Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two people briefed on the matter, and travellers were evacuated from parts of the facility. One of the eyewitnesses reported seeing an explosion and then seeing multiple people lying injured on the ground inside the airport....
  
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• Isaias brings flood, tornado threats across US Southeast after Florida landfall

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  Isaias is expected to bring storm surges, flash flooding, damaging winds and a risk of tornadoes across parts of the US Southeast on Saturday, even as the storm weakens after making landfall in Florida, the National Hurricane Center said. The center warned of considerable impacts across much of southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle...
  
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• India's 'Cockroach' protest movement leaders freed from detention, vow to continue demonstrations

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Leaders of a popular Indian youth movement vowed to continue protests Sunday after being released from detention, a day after police cracked down on demonstrations against a controversial revision of voter lists. The movement is demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief. The protests were triggered after authorities removed more than 130 million...
  
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• Houthi strike on Saudi airport kills 12, worst attack on kingdom in a decade

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  At least 12 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in an attack on Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday, the deadliest in the kingdom in more than a decade, as the Iran-backed Houthis escalate a campaign they launched this summer. The dead from the third attack this week on the airport included four Saudis, two people from Bangladesh and one person each from the US, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, the Saudi civil aviation authority said. At the latest count, 309 were
  
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• Flight safety under scrutiny after Flydubai incident raises questions over airline security

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  The attempted hijacking of a Flydubai aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has reignited debate over aviation security at a time when air travel is undergoing unprecedented changes, both in the number of flights and airlines operating them and in how the industry itself is structured. In the 1960s, airlines operated approximately six million flights annually. That figure rose to 9.7 million in the 1970s and stands at 38.9 million today. Passenger numbers have increased even more dramatica
  
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• A ferocious Hurricane Simon nears Mexico with 155 mph winds and flooding fears

  11-10-2026 13:25 via article.wn.com
  PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — The eye of Hurricane Simon was just off the Pacific coast of Mexico early Sunday and was expected to move inland later in the day as an extremely powerful storm. Simon has strengthened to 155 mph (250 kph), only just below the threshold for becoming a Category 5 storm, the highest on the...
  
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• Why this election could be more complicated for Democrats than polls suggest

  11-10-2026 12:53 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — The party...
  
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• Trump says he should have won 8 Nobels after being snubbed for the prize

  11-10-2026 12:53 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump returned to a...
  
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• Top GOP candidate explains why he largely scrubbed Trump from his campaign website

  11-10-2026 12:53 via article.wn.com
  Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) defended his relationship with President Donald Trump, despite reports that the Florida gubernatorial candidate is distancing himself from him in a race that may turn out to be competitive in November. ......
  
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• Saudi coalition fumes after Houthi strike kills 12 at Riyadh airport

  11-10-2026 12:53 via article.wn.com
  The Saudi-led coalition vowed a decisive response Sunday after a strike at Riyadh's international airport killed 12 people, wounded hundreds, marking the deadliest attack on Saudi ......
  
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• Pentagon again increases number of US casualties in Iran war

  11-10-2026 12:53 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has again quietly raised the number of U.S. service...
  
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