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      <title>Thousands march in Albanian capital as anti-government protests spread</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Thousands of young Albanians have marched through Tirana on Friday, breaking some windows and traffic lights on the fourth day of an increasingly violent student-led campaign to force Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign.]]></description>
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      <title>White House press secretary Katie Zacharia says she did not pass bar exam</title>
      <description><![CDATA[New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has said she did not pass the bar exam, after facing scrutiny over her legal career.]]></description>
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      <title>Four killed in shooting at Oregon elementary school</title>
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      <title>Saudi Arabia intercepts 2 Houthi drones</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Yemen's Saudi-led coalition has announced on Thursday the interception and destruction of two Houthi drones targeting Saudi Arabia. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:42:51 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to new province bordering CAR</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to a new province bordering the Central African Republic, two health officials said on Thursday, posing a fresh challenge for authorities struggling to contain it.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the fastest-growing on record, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ukraine accused Elon Musk's SpaceX on Wednesday of limiting Starlink services, crippling its drones, as Russian missiles knocked out power stations in attacks President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called "ostentatious disrespect" to Donald Trump.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Falling debris from two intercepted cruise missiles launched by Houthis has injured four people and damaged 15 homes, Saudi authorities said early on Wednesday. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Energy said an Aramco administrative building in Dhahran was targeted on Tuesday evening, causing a "limited" fire, with no injuries reported.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday six people had been confirmed dead in the state from Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall last week.]]></description>
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      <title>Pope Leo diagnosed with cancer as doctors remove part of lung, Vatican says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay has urged the United States to return to its traditional role as a defender of human rights, amid a US campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC).]]></description>
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      <title>First major Irish public sector strike in almost two decades set to go ahead</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:19:48 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Pope Leo to enter hospital on Tuesday for surgery on lung nodule</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Pope Leo was due to be hospitalised in Rome on Tuesday ahead of surgery to remove a small growth on one of his lungs, in the first major health issue of his 17-month tenure.]]></description>
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      <title>NASA's Perseverance rover breaks record for off-planet driving on Mars</title>
      <description><![CDATA[NASA's robotic Perseverance rover has now driven farther than any other vehicle on the surface of any world other than Earth, racking up 45.2 km since arriving on Mars in 2021, the US space agency said on Tuesday.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:30:15 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Saudi civil aviation extends suspension of operations at Riyadh airport</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Saudi civil aviation has extended the suspension of operations at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh on Monday following attacks on the facility.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:14:04 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>India opposition parties march to Supreme Court against election chief</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:45:04 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Kyiv says Russia hits energy targets despite Trump ceasefire announcement</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Russia hit at least six energy targets during a night and morning of deadly airstrikes across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, adding this showed Moscow had no interest in an energy ceasefire announced by Donald Trump.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:08:48 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Hall, Woodford win Nobel prize for work on how to stabilise economies</title>
      <description><![CDATA[US academics Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize on Monday for decades of work developing ground-up models currently used by central banks and finance ministries across the world to stabilise economies.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:10:08 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Student shoots at teachers with hunting rifle in southern France</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A French middle-school student shot and wounded a headteacher and a female staff member with a hunting rifle at a school near Marseille on Monday, the local mayor said.]]></description>
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      <title>Pakistan detains Khan allies after suspending provincial government</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Politicians from former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party have been detained after the federal government suspended a provincial government and imposed emergency rule.]]></description>
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      <title>1 dead, 11 injured in Sunday's attack on Riyadh airport, says aviation authority</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's Civil Aviation Authority has reported the death of a resident, with 11 others injured following the attack on King Khaled International Airport on Sunday.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Israeli strike has killed at least two Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials said.]]></description>
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      <title>Hurricane Simon weakens to Category 3 as rains flood Mexico's Pacific coast </title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hurricane Simon has weakened to a Category 3 storm on Sunday as it moved parallel to Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing strong winds and heavy rain that flooded homes.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:46:35 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Panama suffers over 200 aftershocks after Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Panama has recorded more than 200 aftershocks following Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake that damaged hundreds of homes and infrastructure across the country's central provinces, prompting the government to declare a national state of emergency over the weekend.]]></description>
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      <title>North Korea launches multiple ballistic missiles, South Korea says</title>
      <description><![CDATA[North Korea has fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, in its latest weapons test amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.]]></description>
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      <title>Russian attacks kill 6 people in 2 Ukrainian cities</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:51:47 +0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:23:31 +0400</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Operations at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh were suspended on Saturday after an attack on the airport caused injuries, the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pope Leo said on Sunday that doctors had detected a small growth on his lung during a recent health check and he would be undergoing surgery this week to remove it, in the first health scare of the 71-year-old pontiff's tenure.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[British police said a man died on Saturday after he entered a tiger enclosure at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and was attacked.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nine people have been confirmed dead in Erie, Pennsylvania, authorities said, after what Governor Josh Shapiro called a "tragic mass shooting".]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck near the southern coast of Panama on Friday at a depth of 10km, according to the US Geological Survey, yet no damage was initially reported, and the Panama Canal Authority said the waterway was operating normally.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said on Friday that three Saudi nationals were killed and several people were injured in two attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Thursday.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge who oversaw a UN report that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for her efforts to promote peace and international law".]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two Renoir paintings worth millions of dollars that were stolen from a museum on the French Riviera a month ago have been recovered, and six suspects have been arrested, the local mayor said on Friday.]]></description>
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      <title>Hurricane Isaias strengthens as it heads for US Gulf Coast</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hurricane Isaias is strengthening as it heads for the US Gulf Coast, prompting evacuations in Florida and shutting in more than half of the coast's oil production.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The leader of India's "Cockroach" youth movement said a major planned protest would go ahead in New Delhi on Saturday, despite the detentions of followers he estimated to run into the thousands, calling for the resignation of the top poll official.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The US government is suspending Microsoft, Adobe and several large IT firms from a programme that allows skilled foreign workers to gain permanent residency, senior US officials announced on Thursday, citing alleged fraud, and as part of an effort to push companies to hire more Americans.]]></description>
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      <title>Intercepted missile debris damages kindergarten, clinic complex in Riyadh</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Debris from a ballistic missile launched by the Houthi militia caused material damage to a kindergarten and a medical clinic complex in Riyadh after the missile was intercepted and destroyed, Saudi authorities said on Thursday.]]></description>
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      <title>Russian bomb kills 33 in street in east Ukraine stronghold</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A Russian bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least 33 people, authorities said on Thursday, describing it as a targeted strike on civilians in the key stronghold sought by Moscow.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:15:57 +0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:28:23 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Israelis mark three years since Hamas attack that set off Gaza assault</title>
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      <title>Houthis launch missiles at Yemen's Aden airport as fighting intensifies</title>
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      <title>Russia says tanker crew rescued in Black Sea after attack set ship ablaze</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:52:50 +0400</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kenya confirmed its first Ebola case on Tuesday after a Kenyan citizen who had travelled from Democratic Republic of Congo died in Nairobi.]]></description>
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      <title>UK police make further arrest over suspected Fairford airbase plot</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Former German spy chief August Hanning was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted treason in a case that ranks among Germany's biggest intelligence scandals since the Cold War.]]></description>
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      <title>Students and teachers march in France on biggest day of high school protests</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Students, teachers and parents marched in cites across France on Tuesday and protesters blockaded hundreds of schools, in the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations demanding the government tackle understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.]]></description>
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      <title>'Ghost particle' hunter Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for ground-breaking work creating an observatory to detect some of the universe's most elusive particles, high-energy neutrinos, and how they are created.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[At least 22 people have died after two boats collided on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo.]]></description>
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      <title>Hundreds of French schools stay closed ahead of nationwide day of student protests</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of French high schools will begin a second week of closures on Monday as protests over dilapidated schools and classrooms, overcrowding and teacher shortages precede a nationwide day of demonstrations on Tuesday.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The US Coast Guard said late on Saturday it found debris from a medical transport aircraft off the shore of Massachusetts' Nantucket island and was searching for six people who were on board.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump shared online the supposed phone number of a Republican US senator in the first of multiple posts on Saturday in a row over making daylight saving time permanent.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Asian expat was injured after shrapnel from an intercepted ballistic missile fell in Ahad Rafidah governorate in the Asir region, Saudi Arabia's state news agency reported.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:22:39 +0400</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced renewed pressure on Friday as the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party and a separate coalition of student and activist groups stage fresh protests, demanding the resignation of the elections commission chief over a controversial voter roll revision.]]></description>
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      <title>Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000, government data shows</title>
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      <title>About 400 French schools closed as some student protests turn violent</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Organisers scrapped a final high-profile debate in Brazil's presidential election on Thursday after both frontrunners, leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, opted to skip the event.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo, his wife and several others were killed on Wednesday in a helicopter crash, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of lethal injection late on Wednesday, prison officials said, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:12 +0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Floods, landslides kill 56 in India and 14 in Nepal</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[India's Supreme Court questioned on Monday why the government wanted to "waste so much time" on fresh public and industry consultations before adopting warning labels on packaged items, in its latest push for swifter action on food labelling.]]></description>
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