EuropeYara J tanker drone attack off Romanian coast The Yara J tanker drone attack became the latest flashpoint in a widening campaign against commercial shipping in the Black Sea on Wednesday evening, October 14, 2026, when the Comoros-flagged chemical and oil tanker Yara J reported a fire on board while anchored inside Romanian territorial waters.
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SecurityEuropeYara J tanker drone attack off Romanian coast The Yara J tanker drone attack became the latest flashpoint in a widening campaign against commercial shipping in the Black Sea on Wednesday evening, October 14, 2026, when the Comoros-flagged chemical and oil tanker Yara J reported a fire on board while anchored inside Romanian territorial waters.
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WorldUS Central Command says American forces destroyed an Iranian-affiliated dhow in the Gulf of Oman on October 6 after removing its crew, accusing it of surveilling and targeting US Navy ships.
Read full storyEuropeUkraine said on Wednesday that new speed limits imposed on SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service had disrupted its military drone operations, and SpaceX chief Elon Musk responded that the military-grade Starshield system is "owned and controlled by the US government" — with any restrictions decided by the US military and ultimately President Donald Trump. FAKTA
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WorldEthiopian government forces have advanced to the town of Zalambessa on the country's northern border with Eritrea, a development that has deepened fears of a new war between the two Horn of Africa neighbours. The advance was reported on October 13, as diplomats worked to keep the two countries from sliding back into open conflict.
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Middle EastThe Singapore-flagged GFS Pride sank after striking a naval mine near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Revolutionary Guard navy said, the second vessel lost since the US-Iran war began.
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EuropeTIRANA: Student protests in Albania turned violent on Tuesday as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police outside the Ministry of Education in the capital, Tirana, in the most serious escalation of months of youth-led unrest in the country. What began as a nationwide rally over university conditions, education costs and graduate job prospects spiralled into
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EuropeRussian President Vladimir Putin brought together top government ministers, senior security officials and leading banking executives on Wednesday for a high-level meeting on cybersecurity, which the Kremlin described as an increasingly urgent challenge for the country. The session, announced by the Kremlin on 14 October, was set to examine the resilience of Russia's digital infrastructure
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WorldScientists in Canada have identified a previously unknown eye lymphatic drainage route at the back of the human eye, a finding that overturns more than a century of scientific thinking about how the eye clears waste. The newly described pathway, named the posterior ocular lymphatic outflow — or POLO pathway — lets fluid and metabolic
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BusinessBeijing/Brussels — The European Union and China have reached a landmark trade understanding that could cut Chinese exports of hybrid cars to Europe by more than half over the next four years. EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič announced the EU-China trade deal on October 9 after two days of negotiations in Beijing with Chinese Commerce
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BusinessSpaceX has agreed to acquire a nationwide portfolio of low-band wireless spectrum in the 800 MHz band from Grain Management, a SpaceX spectrum deal reported to be worth about $8 billion, in what Elon Musk called "the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle" for bringing direct-to-phone Starlink service to American mobiles — and US telecom shares tumbled.
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BusinessThe Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has sharply downgraded its outlook for global oil demand growth in 2026, cutting its forecast to 400,000 barrels per day — about 71 percent below the 1.4 million bpd it projected at the start of the year. OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais announced the revision on Monday at
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BusinessThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation,” the Academy announced in Stockholm on 12 October 2026. Who are the laureates? Robert E. Hall, born in 1943
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TechnologyApple has unveiled the HomePod Mini 2, the first major refresh of its compact smart speaker in six years. Announced at the company's "Welcome Home" event in New York on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, the new HomePod Mini 2 brings a more intelligent Siri, a glowing light display and the option of four-speaker surround sound.
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AIGoogle released its new flagship artificial intelligence model, Gemini 4 Argon, to developers and businesses worldwide on October 13, seeking to regain momentum against rivals OpenAI and Anthropic after months of delays and a leadership shakeup at its DeepMind lab.
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TechnologyHundreds of supermarkets across France have been hit by a coordinated cyberattack that hijacked the software controlling their refrigerators and freezers, forcing some units to heat up to 50°C (120°F) overnight and spoiling fresh and frozen food worth millions of euros. The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched a criminal investigation into the attack, which retailers
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TechnologyMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella has called on the tech industry to treat artificial intelligence models as compromised by default and build 'emergency brake' kill-switches into AI systems, following a scandal in which an Anthropic model fabricated a police tip.
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TechnologyAn artificial intelligence model built by Anthropic submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department — and the company did not detect what its own model had done for more than two months, police and the company have said. It is the first publicly confirmed case of an AI model
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AIWashington: Eleven technology companies have committed a combined $2.4 billion in AI tools and computing credits to the United States' Genesis Mission AI programme, the federal government's flagship initiative for putting artificial intelligence to work on scientific research.
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More than 280 young students from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the EU have turned the pressure of looming climate negotiations into working solutions, building 47 prototypes in 60 hours in the European Union's first regional youth climate hackathon — timed to feed fresh youth-led ideas into COP31. Called Climate Hack-tion, the fully online
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Green JournalismEJN will send ten journalists to New York to cover the first BBNJ High Seas Treaty COP in January 2027. Applications close 27 October 2026.
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Green JournalismClimate journalism matters more than ever: 1,200+ entries competed in the 2026 Covering Climate Now awards. An explainer on the craft's vital role.
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Green JournalismCANADA. The Equality Fund has opened applications for its inaugural Journalism Fellowship, a new opportunity designed to support working journalists in Global South countries who report on local solutions to global crises — including the climate crisis — through a gender lens. The fellowship, launched in partnership with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and
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Green JournalismThe Solutions Journalism Network and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have opened applications for the SJN/MIT Climate Journalism Fellowship 2027, an eight-month programme that will give ten local and regional U.S. journalists a $7,500 stipend each to report on climate solutions in their own communities. Applications close at midnight on 26 October 2026. What the
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Green JournalismAwareness article: Climate reporting is one of the most dangerous beats in modern journalism. UNESCO data shows that environmental journalists are attacked, threatened and in some cases killed for their work — and that protecting the press is a prerequisite for protecting the planet. Journalists who investigate illegal logging, poaching, pollution and the climate crisis
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Green JournalismWASHINGTON – The Washington Post’s sweeping investigation into the world’s rising flood danger, Floods Above, has won the inaugural Poynter Journalism Prize for Excellence in Climate Change Reporting, a new award for scientifically grounded climate journalism announced by the Poynter Institute. The prize, sponsored by the Hennecke Family Foundation, recognizes rigorous reporting that enlightens and
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Green JournalismLECCE: Italy's Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) has named Agence France-Presse's "Future of the Planet" desk and Sky TG24 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Daniele Moretti as the winners of the 2026 Romeo Bassoli Award for scientific journalism on climate and sustainability. The prize will be presented on Thursday, 15 October, in Lecce during the Conversazioni sul
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Green JournalismThe European Parliament has shortlisted ten investigations — including probes into data centres' environmental toll and green investment funds — for the 2026 Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize. The winner is announced on 21 October in Strasbourg.
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