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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has named former international judge Navi Pillay as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The award recognizes her decades of work to strengthen international law and ensure that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.
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A powerful earthquake struck off southern Panama on Friday, damaging homes and infrastructure across the country’s central provinces. Authorities recorded more than 300 aftershocks, while tsunami warnings were briefly issued for several countries in the region.
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King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh will remain closed until October 17 following deadly attacks blamed on Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Airlines have extended cancellations, and aviation experts warn the disruption could ripple across Europe–Asia routes.
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Heavy investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure is keeping global growth at around 3 percent, with the biggest benefits flowing to Asia, according to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. She cautioned that AI also brings a slow-moving disruption to labor markets, taxation and education that policymakers must prepare for.
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Worldwide smartphone shipments fell 20 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2026, the market’s worst slump in more than a decade. Analysts blame a severe memory chip shortage, even as Samsung holds the lead and Apple pushes past 20 percent market share.
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India’s Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 10,000 crore fund to provide equity support to small and medium enterprises. The fund will concentrate on manufacturing firms, including those in industrial clusters across Tier-II and Tier-III cities.
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Meta has introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, the most capable models the company has released to date, built for agentic personal and professional tasks. Wonder is available now through the Meta Model API and Muse Code, with a consumer rollout planned first for subscribers.
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Drone attacks forced the shutdown of a Yandex data center in Russia’s Ryazan region that housed supercomputers used to train the company’s AI models. The incident highlights how data centers have become strategic targets in the ongoing conflict.
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The United States has blocked Microsoft, Adobe and several other large technology employers from a visa program for skilled foreign workers. The move marks a significant tightening of rules around how major tech firms recruit international talent.
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Portugal’s football association has suspended Cristiano Ronaldo after he left the national team camp and publicly criticized the coach during Nations League fixtures. The punishment brings new uncertainty to the veteran striker’s international future.
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LeBron James played his first game for the Philadelphia 76ers, scoring 10 points in a 114–108 preseason defeat to the Brooklyn Nets. The veteran forward acknowledged it will take time for the new-look squad to build chemistry.
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The Turkish Football Federation has parted ways with national team coach Vincenzo Montella following a group-stage exit at the World Cup. Four straight Nations League defeats marked the country’s worst competitive losing run in 38 years.
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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about light-gated ion channels. Their work gave rise to optogenetics, a technique that lets scientists control individual neurons with light to study how the brain works.
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Physicist Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics. His work spotting ghostly high-energy neutrinos with a South Pole detector opened a new window on the universe.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence that the rocky exoplanet HD 3167 b holds an atmosphere despite orbiting its star every 24 hours. The finding challenges assumptions about whether such scorching worlds can retain gas.
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