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خلال جلسة في الأمم المتحدة، عرض السفير الإسرائيلي داني دانون فيلمًا استقصائيًا قال إنه يكشف اختراق حماس للأونروا وتورط موظفين فيها بهجوم 7 أكتوبر، مطالبًا الدول بتحويل أموالها إلى منظمات بديلة. ووصف الوكالة بأنها تحولت إلى «ذراع فعلية لحماس»، في خطاب يستهدف شرعية دورها الإغاثي والإنساني
أقرّ وزير الأمن القومي الإسرائيلي إيتمار بن غفير بأنه شعر بالسعادة وقت مجزرة الحرم الإبراهيمي عام 1994، التي ارتكبها المستوطن باروخ غولدشتاين وقتل فيها 29 مصلّيًا فلسطينيًا. وقال إنه كان في الرابعة عشرة من عمره آنذاك، مضيفًا: «كنت سعيدًا حينها، لكنني تغيّرت منذ ذلك الحين».
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Fabrizio Melodia sees the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, scheduled for November 3–8, 2026, as a space to question the present by imagining the future and to consider the power of those who shape it. Marking the centenary of Amazing Stories magazine, the programme combines classic films with discussions of artificial intelligence, transcending human limits and decolonising visions of the future. Melodia links group games to shared thought experiments, invoking Star Trek’s political and ethical dimensions.
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In his final speech before the midterms, Donald Trump focused on repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and crime in Washington, claiming it had fallen by about 90%. Public data instead show violent crime up 12% and property crime down 14% this year; a federal prosecutor also attributed damage to the pool’s lining to rushed, faulty installation, contrary to Trump’s claim that vandalism was responsible.
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Pauline Love earned her first win as Alabama women’s basketball head coach with a 92-56 victory over Queens, but sparse attendance overshadowed the start of the new era. The announced crowd of 2,376 was far above what the writer observed, while a representative of the student supporters’ group criticized the lack of student attendance compared with sellouts at men’s games, despite the women’s team’s continued success.
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Rapid demographic growth and weak party loyalty give Asian American and Hispanic voters electoral influence beyond their numerical share. According to a Harvard election study, they made up 14% of voters in 2024 but 24% of those who switched parties compared with 2020, while accounts from Loudoun County suggest some former Trump supporters are turning away over living costs, government cuts and the war in Iran.
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Supporters of Italy’s school voucher welcome its continuation in the 2027 budget text, viewing it as support for educational choice while arguing that funding remains insufficient to achieve equality. After applications absorbed the €20 million allocated for 2026, they call for wider eligibility and greater support for recognised non-state schools, particularly services for students with disabilities, while raising the household economic-status threshold remains under consideration.
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Turkey is discussing technical and economic terms for a Black Sea nuclear plant with South Korea’s KEPCO, without a final decision on its partner. Analysts say competition could improve Ankara’s financing and pricing terms and does not mean abandoning Rosatom, which is building Akkuyu; Turkey plans two additional plants in Sinop and Thrace, while Akkuyu’s first unit is expected to start operating before the end of 2026.
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Matilde Giglio, co-founder of Even Healthcare, explains a model combining insurance, prevention and treatment through an annual subscription, with doctors’ incentives tied to health outcomes rather than service volumes. The company raised $50 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures to fund five new hospitals in Bangalore within six months, adding to two profitable operating hospitals, while membership has reached 250,000.
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In her debut novel Sky, Francesca D’Angelo imagines a world where death has been abolished, turning enforced immortality into perpetual old age and suffering under the Guard of Balance. Skarlett, a girl with the forbidden power to kill, becomes a hope for restoring death and the natural order, a paradox that confronts the desire for eternal life with questions about freedom and the meaning of a finite existence.
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Istat data show life expectancy in northern Italy reached 84.2 years in 2025, compared with 82.8 years in the south, a gap roughly twice that recorded in 2004. Disparities are wider for years lived in good health, while more than 5.6 million Italians reported forgoing a needed healthcare service because of waiting lists, cost or access difficulties.
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Fırat Aydınus argues that Fenerbahçe’s structural problems will not be solved by changing the coach alone, after Dirk Kuyt failed to prevent defeat by Göztepe following İsmail Kartal. Uğur Meleke criticised Kuyt’s lack of effective interventions, while Mehmet Arslan identified squad quality as the underlying problem and called Galatasaray the clear title favourite, amid warnings about their defensive gaps before facing Stuttgart.
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Right-wing governments in Latin America congratulated Lula da Silva on his re-election despite joining Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” initiative, doing so before his administration’s first official response. This recognition, including from Paraguay, Chile and Colombia, suggests limits to US influence and indicates that any attempt to undermine Lula’s government through Flavio Bolsonaro might lack broad regional support.
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Donald Trump declined to endorse Flávio Bolsonaro’s declaration that he was Brazil’s president-elect after losing to Lula da Silva and moving to the United States, saying he would not get involved. Washington’s interest in Brazilian rare earths may help explain its rapprochement with Lula, whose fourth term will face strong parliamentary opposition and the possibility of centrist parties turning against him in a crisis.
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Radiocarbon analyses of vegetation around Canada's Barnes Ice Cap indicate that ice began expanding again about 2,000 years ago, before the trend reversed with warming from the 1960s. Nicolás Young's team interprets that expansion as the possible beginning of a glacial period halted by human-caused warming, challenging earlier models that placed the next glaciation thousands or tens of thousands of years in the future.
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A personal account recounts a return to drinking after more than a decade of sobriety and how seemingly passing fantasies became plans whose danger initially went unrecognized. It connects the rationalization of relapse to a misreading of ideas about consciousness and the illusion of self, which made sobriety seem like a changeable narrative, before recognizing that this interpretation reversed those ideas' intended meaning.
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Taiwan’s AI stock boom is drawing investors toward listed companies, while founders and investors say it is making fundraising harder for early-stage startups. Seed and angel rounds fell from 38.4% of Taiwanese venture capital firms’ deals in 2021 to 17.1% in 2024, while Operon Solutions raised $700,000 primarily from Silicon Valley investors.
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Europe's support for the International Criminal Court faces a practical test after Washington extended sanctions to the institution on October 9, despite its subsequent Sakharov Prize award. Some services depend on temporary US licenses, one of which expires on April 7, 2027, while Brussels favors negotiations and considers extending its Blocking Statute; the Court's registrar says the number of banks willing to handle its business has fallen sharply.
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Bernie Taupin, Elton John's songwriting partner, discusses how much he values life away from the spotlight as he releases his solo album The Sea Has No Mercy. At 76, he wrote both the lyrics and music for the first time and recorded the album in Nashville; he also revisits earlier projects when he had little enthusiasm for becoming a public-facing star.
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Francesco Maria Ceravolo calls for a review of Italy's security agencies, arguing that overlapping responsibilities and separate command structures could create vulnerabilities to hybrid threats. Drawing on staffing, crime and spending data while acknowledging limits to comparisons, he urges an independent assessment of duplication and clearer responsibilities before additional recruitment, potentially freeing resources for operational work.
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Reassuring phrases that avoid discussing death may deny teenagers the space they need to ask questions, according to a writer's experience in death education. She describes questions about losing parents, supporting a grieving friend and smiling again, urging adults to listen, allow time and consider whether their silence protects young people or spares them from confronting their own fears.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Yonhap in an interview that his country aims to raise trade with South Korea to $15 billion and expand investment in defence, nuclear energy and technology. He said assessment of the Sinop nuclear plant project with KEPCO is continuing and that electricity costs, financing and economic benefits will determine the final decision, alongside efforts to reduce the bilateral trade imbalance.
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Russia’s Transport Ministry has completed draft traffic amendments that would ban delivery workers from riding on pavements, prohibit two people riding one electric scooter and allow paid parking for personal mobility vehicles. The draft would require an M-category licence for scooters and electric bicycles with motors rated from 250 watts to 4 kilowatts; it is due for public consultation shortly and could change before adoption.
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Researchers fitted nearly 1,750 monarch butterflies this year with solar-powered radio trackers to identify migration routes and stopovers across Canada, the United States and Mexico. Tracking documented a butterfly from Utah joining eastern populations in central Mexico, as well as journeys across the Gulf of Mexico, potentially helping protect their habitats, although the technology does not pinpoint a butterfly’s exact location.
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Serdar Tuncer argues that Turks’ aversion to politicians now encompasses both government and opposition, and that integrity and not deceiving voters could become the decisive criteria in the next elections. He calls for radical changes to personnel, organizations, political practices and the legal framework, arguing that restoring trust requires new faces and sincere reforms, rather than cosmetic changes limited to replacing names or calming public anger.
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The author calls on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to form a joint nuclear shield, warning of possible US-Israeli nuclear escalation against Iran whose dangers could extend across the region. He argues that Iranian resistance has disrupted Washington’s and Israel’s calculations and urges urgent extraordinary measures and an end to sectarian and ethnic divisions to confront what he considers a shared threat to the region’s countries.
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Sergey Karaganov, honorary chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, calls for Russia to shift its economic and political attention toward Siberia, arguing that it should become the development hub within 10 to 20 years. In an interview, he proposes creating a third capital or transferring some central government functions to Siberian cities while Moscow remains the political capital, citing the region’s natural resources and Asian demand for them.
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An international team led by Nathan Roth found that the ratio of deuterium to ordinary hydrogen in the methane of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reaches 3.18%, based on James Webb telescope observations from December 2025. That ratio is about 14 times the level in comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The findings, published in Nature Astronomy, point to an extremely cold formation environment and the possibility that water and methane formed at different times.
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A succession of killings of women in Israel has raised concerns about similar patterns involving children who lost their mothers, some of whom had to summon help. Lili Ben Ami, founder of the Michal Sela Forum, calls for examining possible copycat behavior and preserving children's family ties. Social welfare official Hava Levy explains how care and stability are provided while cautioning against concluding that a copycat phenomenon exists.
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The argument holds that advancing knowledge requires social respect for curiosity and institutions that fund research, and that prioritising expediency and distrusting inquiry in Turkey and the Islamic world impede intellectual development. Drawing on the European Renaissance and Darwin’s experience, it highlights financial and institutional support and calls for intellectual maturity to be measured by willingness to change one’s mind rather than winning arguments.
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Michaël, 42, recounts how his relationship with Laurent began with a chance encounter, followed by tensions in their shared life and their separation. He says he waited until 35 to tell his mother he was gay, then experienced a marriage proposal just weeks into this later relationship, disputes over housing and trust, and an outburst in which Laurent threw objects including his computer.
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Russia’s wholesale broiler price reached 250 rubles per kilogram in the week ending November 1, 2026, up 37% year on year, according to market participants. Specialists link the increase to production costs and reduced supply despite a 26.4% rise in imports during January–September; the Agriculture Ministry says domestic needs are being met, while AD Libitum expects no production recovery before the first quarter of 2027.
Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said Iran had submitted its plan to mediators and that the United States now faced a choice between diplomacy and war, according to Press TV.
Press TV reported that the IRGC captured two American MQM-170 drones over Qeshm Island. It also said the force destroyed a US MQ-9 drone east of the Strait of Hormuz, describing it as the 55th drone of that type destroyed.
PressTV Extra accused Israeli forces of burning homes belonging to displaced Lebanese residents in the area between Kfar Tibnit and Arnoun in southern Lebanon.
Press TV shared a video it said captured the moment the IRGC Aerospace Force shot down a US MQ-9 drone east of the Strait of Hormuz.
PressTV Extra shared footage it said captured the initial moments of an attack by Saudi fighter jets on a factory in Yemen’s Taiz province.
Press TV reported that Yemeni armed forces targeted Dammam airport and a radar site in Jizan, Saudi Arabia. The outlet described the attacks as fresh reprisals.
John Kiriakou claimed he had heard from his contacts at the White House that the president was considering a tactical nuclear weapon, according to a quotation shared by Ounka. The account also quoted him saying, “We’ve already lost the war,” as his assessment of its course.
The Ministry of Social Affairs carried out a campaign against begging in Damascus and moved homeless children and families into care centers, according to a post by the Ward account. The post said the campaign aims to provide education and comprehensive support to those transferred to the centers.
Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen called for coordination between the Joint List and the United Arab List to bring down Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, stressing the need for such cooperation in remarks to Arab48.
Bakr Awawdeh, who holds the fourth seat on the Joint List, told Arab48 that the meeting with the United Arab List reflected the political responsibility arising from public trust in both lists. He said it sought their shared political goals, foremost bringing down Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
TRHaber reported the theft of a Palestinian shepherd’s flock in the West Bank, attributing it to people the outlet described as occupiers. It based its account on footage it said documented the sheep being taken from the area.
Kan cited law enforcement sources as assessing the evidence of Qatari interference in Israeli elections as extremely weak, contrary to statements in political circles. The report added that the origin of the funds whose transfer is under investigation had not yet been established.
Participants carrying Palestinian flags chased a person wearing a Netanyahu mask on Galata Bridge during a protest at the Istanbul Marathon, according to TRHaber. The protest carried the slogan “You cannot escape justice” and took place on the bridge along the marathon route.
A Saudi source told Kan that Riyadh wants no involvement in a war with Iran and expects Saudi territory to be spared Iranian attacks in return. The statement came in the channel’s report on preparations for another confrontation with Iran.
Kan reported that Israel approached the Lebanese government and demanded action against Hezbollah to prevent it from intervening in a possible confrontation with Iran.
Kan cited Israeli sources assessing that the next two months offer a window for a strike on Iran. It also reported that the Americans continue to strengthen their presence in the Gulf and prepare for another confrontation, while Putin spoke with a senior Iranian official in efforts to prevent war.
US Vice President Vance said talks with Iran had been good and had made progress, but described the Iranian side as unpredictable, according to Kan.
Kan reported that coalition representatives on Israel's election committee plan to oppose publication of the results, describing the move as unprecedented and lacking a clear legal basis. The committee chair is nevertheless expected to submit the results to the president two days after the report.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said the West continued to accuse Russia of waging a hybrid war against it. In remarks carried by TRHaber, he responded that Russia had no time to deal with the West, adding: “Do not attack us, and we will attack no one.”
TRHaber reported that Israeli guards targeted Palestinian prisoner Hassan Salameh with nine rounds, weeks after Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir raided his cell. The outlet quoted Ben-Gvir as telling Salameh during the raid: “I want to kill you.”
Turkish intelligence chief İbrahim Kalın said cooperation among intelligence agencies of the Turkic world had reached a very advanced level. In remarks carried by TRHaber, he said an alert system had been established to identify and track emerging threats simultaneously with all partners.
Lebanese journalist Kim Ghattas described Lebanon as “a boxing ring for regional rivalries,” saying that what happens in Beirut does not stay there. In a clip shared by Yalda Hakim, she discussed parallels between events in the Middle East in the 1980s and today, documented in her new book, “The Best Kind of American.”
Ali Bagheri, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran and Beijing hold the United States and Israel responsible for starting the war on Iran. He made the statement during high-level talks in China, according to Press TV.
Yemeni forces released new footage that PressTV Extra described as drone attacks on Saudi-backed forces.
Esmaeil Baghaei said meeting Iran's demands could make it possible to restore the previous situation in the Strait of Hormuz and begin negotiations. In remarks shared by PamphletsY, he made both possibilities conditional on those demands being met.
Francesca Albanese, identified by PamphletsY as being with the UN, said businesses were profiting from what she described as genocide. She said her accusation extended beyond Israeli businesses to Western companies and companies from the Global South.
Odak TV reported that Israel destroyed residents' homes by blowing them up in the village of Ayta Jabal in southern Lebanon.
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