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• China's economic tightrope act

  15-04-2016 07:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How will China manage the economic transition it has embarked on, asks Andrew Walker.
  
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• Prince Harry calls reconciliation 'the most important thing' amid royal family rift

  20-10-2026 16:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prince Harry has said he “wants it to work out” with his family – but claimed that others “don’t want to” have the same intention.The Duke of Sussex said in a wide-ranging interview that the “scars stick around forever”, but that building bridges with his relatives was a future ambition.In an interview with GQ magazine recorded in late September and shared on Tuesday, Harry said that his move back to the UK with Meghan Markle and his children was p
  
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• Hegseth discusses Iran with Netanyahu in unannounced visit to Israel, officials say

  20-10-2026 16:31 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM, Oct 20 (Reuters) - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discussed Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel ‌on Monday, three Israeli officials said, as tensions flare between the US ‌and Iran.Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for the prime minister, later confirmed to Reuters that Netanyahu had ​met with Hegseth at the Uvda air force base in Israel's southern Negev desert region.Netanyahu and Hegseth discussed "the threats in
  
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• States are preparing for an unusual election threat from the federal government

  20-10-2026 14:29 via yahoo.com
  A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November's midterm elections, according to people involved in the effort.The group includes about 10 current and former officials with experience in the Defense Department, some of whom have previously focused on countering authoritarianism abroad.Subscribe to The Post Most new
  
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• Trump announces $8 billion for farmers to offset soaring diesel costs

  20-10-2026 13:13 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump announced an $8 billion aid package on Monday to help US farmers pay for diesel this harvest season. The relief program, announced at a campaign rally in Kansas and on social media, aims to bring down fuel costs for Americans ahead of next month's midterm elections."Tonight, I am also pleased to announce that the Department of Agriculture will be launching a new 'Harvest Fuel Relief Program,' providing our Farmers with 8 BILLION DOLLARS in support to offset Diesel costs during th
  
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• Dad who stopped Oregon school shooter is 'riddled with guilt,' brother says

  20-10-2026 12:53 via yahoo.com
  More details have emerged about the 'hero' bystander who intervened within minutes of a gunman opening fire at an elementary school in Oregon. Kaylub Giamanco, 36, fatally shot the 16-year-old gunman who killed four people at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oreg. His actions "undoubtedly saved people," police said.Giamanco, a carpenter and father of two girls who attend Silver Rail Elementary, had gone through "military shooting drills" with veterans who fought in Iraq, The Guardian repor
  
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• Zelensky to meet U.S. envoys as missile dispute sours relations with Trump

  20-10-2026 10:27 via yahoo.com
  Russia's latest strikes on Ukraine on Monday killed six people and knocked out power to more than haf a million (Sergei SUPINSKY)Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will hold talks with top US envoys in Norway on Tuesday, after accusing the United States of deliberately delaying the delivery of interceptor missiles to his war-torn country.Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said Oslo would host talks between Zelensky and US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner -- the latter taking part r
  
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• United Airlines CEO defends its fees in wide-ranging interview: 'It's expensive to fly'

  20-10-2026 10:23 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby gave a wide-ranging, often provocative interview to the New York Times, defending fees for aisle and window seats and countering the rise in airfares by asserting "it's expensive to fly airplanes.""There are customers that pay more that get more," Kirby, 59, said in the interview that ran Oct. 18.But he struck a decidedly more populist note on the topic of wealth inequality — which he brought up when the Times asked him about waning trust in CEOs and his res
  
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• Protests cool after overnight curfews across Paris and major French cities

  20-10-2026 10:17 via abcnews.com
  
  French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu credited localized overnight curfews in Paris and other major cities for providing a measure of calm after intense nationwide protests that have seen thousands arrested and sustained violent clashes between demonstrators and police.Nighttime curfews went into effect on Monday night in cities including Paris, Bordeaux, Nice and Lyon as French police sought to combat rioting and looting associated with the recent protests.The curfews came in response to prot
  
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• Alberta voters reject independence from Canada in decisive vote

  20-10-2026 10:05 via yahoo.com
  Alberta separatists rallied ahead of the vote in the provincial capital of Edmonton (Megan Albu)Canada's province of Alberta rejected a plan to hold a binding independence referendum, results showed Tuesday, a win for unity as the country faces worsening ties with the United States.Public broadcaster CBC and leading private network CTV projected a clear win for the federalist side, with official results showing more than 76 percent support for Alberta remaining in Canada with nearly 45 percent o
  
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• Zelensky accuses U.S. of holding up transfer of Patriot missiles

  20-10-2026 07:49 via yahoo.com
  Russia's latest strikes on Ukraine on Monday killed six people and knocked out power to more than haf a million (Sergei SUPINSKY)Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the United States of deliberately delaying the delivery of interceptor missiles to his war-torn country ahead of reported talks with a top US envoy on Tuesday.Relations between Kyiv and Washington have soured over military aid and intelligence sharing, with Zelensky saying on Monday that Ukraine received no early warning of
  
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• Trump administration sees escalating risk from Houthis, prompting wave of warnings

  20-10-2026 06:08 via abcnews.com
  
  The Trump administration now assesses that Houthi attacks pose a broad, escalating threat to Americans in the Middle East, prompting an unprecedented decision by the State Department to issue urgent warnings about the Iranian-backed rebel group across a dozen countries in the region, U.S. officials told ABC News.While the department has been notifying U.S. nationals in Saudi Arabia about the risk of Houthi attacks for weeks, U.S. embassies in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman,
  
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• Even some Trump supporters don't expect to get $5,000 checks after midterms

  20-10-2026 06:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hoping that $5,000 checks can juice Republican turnout in November’s midterm elections — but even some of his devoted fans are doubting that government payouts would arrive.“I mean, I guess it’s good for some people. I really don’t care," said Jamie Alvarez, who attended Trump's recent Alaska rally in a red, white and blue outfit. "I don’t feel like your vote should be bought. I feel like you should vote for wh
  
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• Nearly $1 million in sports and Pokémon cards stolen from FedEx truck

  20-10-2026 03:36 via nbcnews.com
  Nearly $1 million worth of sports and Pokémon trading cards were stolen from a FedEx truck last week, police in California said Monday. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty)Thieves made off with nearly $1 million in sports, Pokémon and other trading cards swiped from a FedEx truck in Southern California last week, police said Monday.Officers responded to a trading card authentication company Tuesday about the theft of an estimated $963,000 worth of cards from a FedEx truck, San
  
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• California residents accused by feds of voter fraud react with shock, confusion, anger

  20-10-2026 02:52 via yahoo.com
  Homeland Security Investigations officers leave a home after arresting a suspect accused of illegally registering to vote during a federal operation in Commerce on Monday. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)At the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles late Monday, several green card holders arrested in a crackdown on alleged California voter fraud expressed confusion over the charges — with some saying they had no recollection of registering to vote, as Trump administration official
  
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• Vance breaks with Trump on Netanyahu endorsement ahead of Israeli election

  20-10-2026 02:36 via newsmax.com
  Vice President JD Vance and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem last year. (Getty Images)Vice President JD Vance declined Monday to endorse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection, while President Donald Trump gave the embattled Israeli leader his "Complete and Total Endorsement" ahead of Israel's Oct. 27 election.
  "I endorse American candidates ... so I'm not getting involved in Israeli elections," Vance said in an interview with journalist Mark Halperin, acc
  
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• Gun used in Bend school shooting was birthday gift from shooter's mom, sources say

  20-10-2026 01:35 via cbsnews.com
  
  The gun used by a 16-year-old who shot and killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, last week was a birthday gift from the shooter's mom, sources told CBS News.The Maverick 88 pump-action 12-gauge shotgun was purchased legally in August 2026 by Shauntai Nickerson, the mother of Griffin J. John II, and given to him for recreational use, the sources said.In 2020, Nickerson told a local television station that her son, who was 10 years old at t
  
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• Tensions flare at court hearing on Trump's D.C. golf course renovation

  20-10-2026 00:45 via cnn.com
  
  Golfers play past felled trees at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington D.C., US, on Sunday. - Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg/Getty Images
  One of the tensest showdowns between the Trump administration and the federal bench in Washington, DC, came to a head on Monday in a marathon court hearing over the President Donald Trump’s efforts to overhaul a golf course that has been the subject of months of litigation.
  Trump early Monday doubled down on his plan to close and renovate a public Washington,
  
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• Trump says he's open to idea of joint meeting with Xi and Putin next month

  20-10-2026 00:28 via yahoo.com
  By Trevor Hunnicutt and Ryan Patrick JonesWASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Monday he is open to three-way arms-control talks with the leaders of China and Russia as soon as next month, raising the prospect of an unprecedented meeting and a major diplomatic gambit for the US president."We would have it to ‌talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearization," Trump told reporters outside the White House. "If President Xi wants to have it,
  
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• Attorney General says Mississippi police were justified in shooting that killed 1-year-old

  20-10-2026 00:04 via abcnews.com
  
  The Mississippi Attorney General's Office said in a statement on Monday that the Senatobia Police Department was justified in its use of force during a police-involved shooting last June that led to the death of a 1-year-old.Kohen Wiley was shot and killed outside of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, on June 14 after an officer fired into a vehicle when those in the vehicle were allegedly evading police.The attorney general's office said in its statement on Monday, "In this incident, the Atto
  
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• GOP attacks on El-Sayed's Muslim faith come to a head in heated town hall exchange

  20-10-2026 00:00 via cnn.com
  
  Abdul El-Sayed speaks at a campaign rally in Flint, Michigan, on October 18. - Katie McTiernan/Anadolu/Getty Images
  The Muslim Brotherhood has become a flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate race, with Republicans trying to cast Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed as sympathetic to interests connected to Islamic terror and El-Sayed arguing that he is being unfairly accused of the same “dual loyalties” that former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama once were.
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• El-Sayed fires back after voter questions his loyalty to the U.S.

  20-10-2026 00:00 via cnn.com
  
  Abdul El-Sayed speaks at a campaign rally in Flint, Michigan, on October 18. - Katie McTiernan/Anadolu/Getty Images
  The Muslim Brotherhood has become a flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate race, with Republicans trying to cast Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed as sympathetic to interests connected to Islamic terror and El-Sayed arguing that he is being unfairly accused of the same “dual loyalties” that former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama once were.
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• Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon

  19-10-2026 22:28 via bbc.com
  
  The spacecraft will head to Mars's larger moon, Phobos [JAXA]
  A spacecraft has launched from Japan headed for Mars' moon Phobos, where it will attempt to grab some moondust and bring it back to Earth.If it is successful, this will become the first time a sample has been returned from Mars or its moons to be analysed in laboratories here on Earth. The spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at Phobos in August 2027.It is hoped that the Mars Moons Exploration (MMX) mission, which is led by the Japanese
  
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• Women favor Democrats by 18 points as Trump's approval falls to a new low

  19-10-2026 22:22 via yahoo.com
  By Jason LangeWASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish ‌his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that ‌closed on Monday.Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump's performance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier ​and the lowest level in either of his presidential terms, the four
  
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• Zelensky briefs U.S. lawmakers and raises concerns about delay in air-defense interceptors

  19-10-2026 21:47 via politico.com
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday and raised concerns about President Donald Trump’s decision to waive key sanctions on Russia, as members of Congress push back against the president’s moves to ease economic pressure on Moscow.During the video call, Zelenskyy reported concerns over disruptions to U.S. intelligence sharing and the administration’s decision to waive Russia sanctions. He also told lawmakers that critical Sta
  
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• The AI doom scenario you may never have heard of may be hardest to stop

  19-10-2026 21:44 via cbsnews.com
  
  It seems that almost daily, a big tech company releases a new AI-driven digital assistant. Muse by Meta, Gemini by Google, dots by OpenAI. By the time this article is published, a new one from [insert tech company here] will probably have a press release touting its ability to manage your work and life — to take things off your plate, automate your processes, speed up your tedious tasks. It sounds helpful and, to lower the bar, harmless. But some researchers say this is the beginning
  
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• Man who snatched Peachy the flamingo from Las Vegas hotel found guilty of animal cruelty

  19-10-2026 21:40 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Canadian man was convicted of animal cruelty charges Monday for snatching a flamingo named Peachy from its enclosure at an iconic Las Vegas hotel. Prosecutors said it was a malicious prank while a lawyer for the tourist insisted it was drunken foolishness not meant to harm the bird.Prosecutors said tourist Mitchell Fairbarn hurt and frightened the 27-year-old Chilean flamingo when he took it from its habitat at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino and carried the squa
  
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• Hungary and Poland defend tough migration policies as France reels from violent unrest

  19-10-2026 21:21 via foxnews.com
  
  As images of burning cars and historic buildings in France and Italy ricochet across Europe, leaders in Hungary and Poland are seizing the moment, not to address the unrest, but to redefine the migration debate.Both Hungary and Poland have laid down markers on allowing migrants into their nations. Even to the point of being fined and sanctioned by the European Union courts for refusing to open their gates to unchecked immigration, in Hungary’s case under former Prime Minister Viktor Orb&aa
  
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• Russian satellite comes within 100 feet of U.S.-owned spacecraft

  19-10-2026 20:30 via yahoo.com
  A Russian satellite came dangerously close to a Finnish-American satellite this weekend in a provocative maneuver that could foreshadow the new norm for space warfare.
  According to public orbital tracking data, KOSMOS-2612, a Russian satellite launched in April with very few details disclosed, approached too close for comfort to ICEYE-X36, an imaging satellite from the Finnish company ICEYE that is owned by its U.S. subsidiary and has been used by the Ukrainian military. Nobody knows quite what
  
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• France imposes curfews after violent protests lead to thousands of arrests

  19-10-2026 20:08 via yahoo.com
  By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Elizabeth PineauPARIS, Oct 19 (Reuters) - French authorities set curfews in parts of several cities on Monday, including Paris, Lille and Nice, as they faced pressure over security failings after a weekend of riots and looting stemming from nationwide anti-government protests.Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu had ruled out a blanket curfew in Paris but not a state of emergency, and had said ‌it was more appropriate for now to apply partial and localised curfews."M
  
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