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• Dubai: Alleged rape was consensual

  22-11-2016 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  A rape investigation involving a British national allegedly assaulted in Dubai has been closed after a prosecutor concluded the sex was consensual.
  
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• Putin reportedly proposes summit with Trump and Xi to discuss Ukraine peace deal

  19-10-2026 04:54 via yahoo.com
  Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping ‌to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine conflict that would ‌favour Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the discussions.The proposed summit ​comes amid warming ties between Trump and Putin especially after the US President announced a deal to buy Russian diesel and signed an order on
  
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• Search for Amelia Earhart's plane hits another dead end after 89 years

  19-10-2026 04:05 via cbsnews.com
  
  A mysterious object discovered near a remote Pacific island is not the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's missing plane, researchers said after an expedition to the site, dealing another setback to efforts to solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries nearly 90 years after the pilot disappeared."Evidence gathered at the Taraia Peninsula on Nikumaroro confirmed that the visual anomaly first seen in satellite imagery in 2020 was likely a collection of large trees deposited along the peninsula's sandspit
  
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• Obama condemns comments by 'border czar' that Ilhan Omar could be denaturalized

  19-10-2026 01:51 via yahoo.com
  Homeland security officers carry boxes from the Washington DC residence of Ilhan Omar, on 12 October.Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP
  Former US president Barack Obama condemned comments by Donald Trump’s “border czar” that the Republican presidential administration could “of course” strip Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her.
  Obama wrote Sunday morning, on X, that “the full weight of the federal government is being brought do
  
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• Trump says Zelensky 'doesn't want to end this war' after Ukraine hits Russian terminal

  19-10-2026 01:42 via cnn.com
  
  Ukraine launched one of its biggest drone attacks this year on Russia overnight on Saturday, hitting a key oil terminal in defiance of US President Donald Trump’s demand it stop hitting Russian energy infrastructure.
  There have been growing tensions between Ukraine and the US in recent days, prompting fears in Kyiv it could lose essential support as it approaches another winter under relentless Russian attack. President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” t
  
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• U.S. resumes intelligence-sharing with Ukraine after pause, Zelensky says

  18-10-2026 23:06 via yahoo.com
  Oct 18 (Reuters) - The United States has resumed providing Ukraine critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes, after a brief pause, Ukrainian President ‌Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in comments published on Sunday.Ukraine has relied on US intelligence ‌to spot the fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia has fired in waves at its cities. US President Donald Trump ​had said earlier this week that Washington was still sharing intelligence, although Ukrain
  
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• Trump endorses Netanyahu just 9 days before Israeli elections

  18-10-2026 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  The relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and US President Donald Trump, shown in April, 2025, has soured ahead of crucial elections. - Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/FILE
  With just over a week to go until Israel’s election day, President Donald Trump finally gave the full-throated endorsement that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had long sought.
  The president called Netanyahu a “Great Warrior Prime Minister” in a post on social media, which he said serves as his &
  
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• Coastal storm threatens East Coast with high winds and flooding

  18-10-2026 21:22 via newsweek.com
  
  A slow-moving coastal storm is expected to bring high winds, flooding and dangerous surf to parts of the East Coast this week, with forecasters also monitoring the system for possible subtropical development.The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Sunday that a storm-force non-tropical low was expected to form off the Southeast coast on Sunday or Sunday night and move “slowly and erratically” through the middle of the week. The agency gave the system a near-zero chance of developmen
  
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• Driver whose truck drove into Kansas soccer game released, pending toxicology tests

  18-10-2026 21:18 via cnn.com
  
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  What began as a soccer game on a sunny Saturday in Wichita, Kansas, for children whose loved ones watched on the sidelines ended in tragedy when a woman drove onto the field, killing a 6-year-old boy and a man and injuring 10 others.
  The driver, a 34-year-old who was parked near the soccer fields, barreled through the Stryker Sports Complex around 3:25 p.m. local time, the Wichita Police Department said. Two of the woman’s children were with her in the truck and another
  
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• Rubio says Trump will take up to 60 days to weigh Russia sanctions

  18-10-2026 21:15 via yahoo.com
  By Nandita Bose and Gram SlatteryOct 17 (Reuters) - The day after waiving sanctions and tariffs related to Russian exports, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he has yet to announce a final decision on ‌the matter, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio said officials want more time to evaluate the situation.Rubio said on ‌Saturday that the president will use up to 60 days to assess the economic impact of Russia-related sanctions and tariffs that he waived a day earlier."A ​
  
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• Vance says 'there's a chance' he won't run for president in 2028

  18-10-2026 21:01 via newsmax.com
  Vice President JD Vance (Daniel Heuer-Pool/Getty Images)Despite leading early polls of potential 2028 Republican presidential candidates, Vice President JD Vance says "there's a chance" he won't enter the race.
  Speaking during a CBS News town hall Saturday in Flat Rock, Michigan, Vance acknowledged that family considerations could influence whether he seeks to succeed President Donald Trump.
  "Of course there's a chance," Vance said when asked whether he might sit out the 2028 presidential e
  
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• Jackson doesn't regret telling Collins to 'shut up' after protester interrupted debate

  18-10-2026 19:24 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Maine Democrat Troy Jackson says he does not regret telling Sen. Susan Collins that she should “shut up” after the Republican suggested a protester who interrupted their recent debate was one of his campaign's backers."She said that it was a Troy supporter. She accused me of setting that up. I had no idea who it was,” said Jackson, a former president of the state Senate who is trying to deny Collins, the longest-serving Republican woman in Senate history
  
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• 'It's like a war zone': Fresh clashes break out in Paris after historic day of unrest

  18-10-2026 19:03 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sybille de La HamaidePARIS, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Fresh clashes broke out in Paris on Sunday a day after France suffered one of its worst days of unrest in years, with protests over high prices leaving one demonstrator dead, thousands arrested and shops across the country looted or damaged.Nationwide demonstrations ‌erupted into riots on Saturday, with a town hall torched, shops ransacked, and buildings covered in graffiti as violent groups clashed with police in cities across the ‌cou
  
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• A timeline of the Cornell rape case, from the alleged 2024 incident to the frat party ban

  18-10-2026 17:31 via yahoo.com
  The investigation into an alleged "gang rape" at Cornell University in October 2024 has drawn nationwide attention after a former student identified as "Jane Doe" filed a civil lawsuit last month, accusing seven fraternity members of drugging and assaulting her for hours.Last week, Cornell announced that it is suspending "all parties and social events" at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year while an independent review is underway."These measures will provide time for a thorough r
  
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• Trump's D.C. golf course overhaul will close popular links for 15 months

  18-10-2026 17:00 via forbes.com
  ToplineEast Potomac Golf Links, a highly popular municipal golf course in Washington, D.C., and the target of one of President Donald Trump’s contentious renovation projects, will close for 15 months starting in November, the president said on Sunday.An aerial view of the East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C. taken in May 2026.Getty ImagesKey FactsIn a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump shared a map of the redesigned course, which he said would be “open to the Public while,
  
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• Trump approval hits record low, handing Democrats a clear midterm edge

  18-10-2026 16:08 via yahoo.com
  Two weeks from Election Day, Republicans face a bleak political landscape. President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to a new low, and support for Democrats in the race for control of Congress is rising as inflationary pressures contribute to an acrid mood among voters, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.Trump's approval among U.S. adults now stands at 33 percent, with 66 percent disapproving; 52 percent said they disapprove strongly. That approval rating is four percen
  
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• What are self-replicating 'AI worms', and why is Anthropic worried about them?

  18-10-2026 15:30 via tech.yahoo.com
  
  ‘Whatever claims the labs are making, they are not warning us enough. We need to understand that nobody can stop the AI storm.’Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
  Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future – together with alarming reports of what it has gotten up to already – are being issued so quickly that even security experts have difficulty triaging what to worry about.
  Yet a report this week from Anthropic’s offensive research team grab
  
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• U.S. taking Putin's side would be a 'historic mistake,' says Zelensky

  18-10-2026 14:21 via nbcnews.com
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the U.S. formally siding with Russia’s Vladimir Putin would be a “historic mistake,” but said he still sees President Donald Trump as an ally despite a series of moves that have unsettled his country and its friends on Capitol Hill.“We want to trust him,” Zelenskyy told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday, referring to Trump. “I hope that he will change his decisions, because I think th
  
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• Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist

  18-10-2026 12:39 via theguardian.com
  Green leader in England and Wales calls ‘debates about words’ unhelpful and denies recent motion was controversialZack Polanski has said Zionism in its current form is racist, that no country has a right to exist and that the controversial Green party motion on the issue was not controversial.The leader of the Green party in England and Wales gave an unapologetic interview to the BBC on Sunday two weeks after his party approved a motion equating Zionism with racism. Continue reading.
  
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• Arrests over France protests rise to 1,800, with whole streets in Paris ‘devastated’ – Europe live

  18-10-2026 12:29 via theguardian.com
  Interior minister says ‘the Republic will not yield’ to France’s worst protests in yearsProtests in France caused damage worth hundreds of millions of euros, according to the head of a trade body representing shop owners.About 1,500 shops and retailers were damaged in the demonstrations according to Alexandre Bompard, president of the Retail and Trade Federation.Protesting is a fundamental right.Causing disorder through violence and in a coordinated manner is not. Continue read
  
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• A dramatic El Niño effect is headed for the West Coast

  18-10-2026 12:03 via usatoday.com
  One of El Niño’s most dramatic effects is waiting in the wings and could soon cause chaos along the West Coast, especially in California, forecasters warned.
  A historic El Niño is expected to up the intensity of atmospheric rivers – long corridors of water vapor in the atmosphere that can transport tremendous amounts of moisture and produce heavy rain or snow when they reach land.
  "A stronger El Niño brings stronger atmospheric rivers," Daniel Swain, a climate sc
  
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• Trump's most controversial moves have something in common: This DOJ office

  18-10-2026 12:00 via washingtonpost.com
  When White House officials wanted to know if President Donald Trump could send the U.S. military to help capture President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, a special unit in the Justice Department assured them it was legal. When the administration was preparing to strike suspected drug traffickers’ boats on the open sea without congressional approval, the same small unit declared the action permissible.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories
  
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• NHS staff who wrongly accessed tiger victim’s records should be sacked, says Yvette Cooper

  18-10-2026 11:38 via theguardian.com
  Health secretary says it is ‘total disgrace’ if staff looked up William Chapman, who died at Yorkshire Wildlife ParkNHS staff who inappropriately accessed the medical records of a man mauled to death by a tiger should be sacked, Yvette Cooper said.The health secretary said the incident – which followed reports earlier this year that staff had unnecessarily viewed details about the Southport attack victims and those murdered by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham in 2023 – was a
  
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• Nottinghamshire police officer in hospital after being shot in the foot

  18-10-2026 11:32 via theguardian.com
  Large cordon in place around Angel Row area of city centre after ‘shocking incident’ in the early hours of SundayA police officer is in hospital after being shot in the foot in Nottingham in the early hours of Sunday.Nottinghamshire police said the officer had approached two suspects in the city centre when he was struck by a bullet. The force said the two suspects, a woman and a man, had fled the scene and were being sought by police. Continue reading...
  
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• Hilarious quips and ‘100,000-volt’ energy: the hypemen (and women) redefining Afrobeats music

  18-10-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Style of emceeing based on high-octane, ad-libbed vocals has flourished thanks to its unique way of captivating crowdsFor the 2015 freshmen cohort of the history degree programme at the University of Lagos, their classmate’s first-semester presentation was so captivating that they began calling him Toby Shang, after the 16th-century Chinese dynasty he had focused on.His crowd engagement that day had been harnessed from his high school days as a ginger-man (energiser) in a three-man band an
  
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• ‘Many family stories’: Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet takes out ABC radio poll of top 100 Australian books

  18-10-2026 09:15 via theguardian.com
  Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief secures second place, while Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe rounds out podium dominated by menCloudstreet, Tim Winton’s sprawling Australian family epic, has been voted Australia’s favourite book in a poll run by ABC Radio National.The broadcaster announced over the weekend the results of a nationwide poll to determine a list of readers’ top 100 Australian books. Continue reading...
  
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• Condé Nast’s UK profits drop by more than a third as sale of Vogue publisher ruled out

  18-10-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Magazine group points to restructuring bill but says it ‘remains profitable in the UK for another year’Profits at Condé Nast’s UK arm slumped by more than a third last year, according to figures published shortly after the billionaire family that owns the luxury magazine group and titles from Vogue to GQ ruled out a sale.The publisher, which enjoyed a bumper 2024 after booking £64m in proceeds from the sale of its UK headquarters Vogue House in London, saw pre-tax
  
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• ‘Austerity is inevitably painful’: How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

  18-10-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  For more than three decades, Michael Gove has been a leading figure in British Conservatism. As a journalist, government minister and now editor of the Tory bible the Spectator, he has helped shape the right even as it has moved further rightwards. In the latest episode of Radical Thinking, Gove joins Aditya Chakrabortty to discuss the future of the right, his record on Brexit and austerity, and the Spectator’s position on IslamWatch the full episode with Michael Gove here.
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• An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria

  18-10-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  A girl called Àìná was captured by an African king and later taken to England to become Sarah Forbes Bonetta, protege of the imperial monarch When she was seven years old, Bayo Randle’s great-great-grandmother Sarah Forbes Bonetta was presented to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle as a “diplomatic gift” from an African king.Victoria would go on to pay for Bonetta’s education, approve her marriage to one of west Africa’s wealthiest men, and become
  
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• A new generation of synthetic drugs is changing America's overdose crisis

  18-10-2026 08:34 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville joins officers at Cook County as they carry out an early morning raid
  Warning: This story contains descriptions of drug-taking from the start and discusses suicideThe few grains of fentanyl sit in the silver foil as a straw, held between Mike's lips, hovers above, with a cigarette lighter below. The 48-year-old army veteran is crouched low in an alleyway in Columbus, Ohio's Linden neighbourhood."This drug will damn near make you do anything, unfortunately," h
  
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