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Three students were killed in a school shooting in the southern Philippines on Friday, including a 16-year-old suspected gunman who turned the gun on himself, provincial officials said. Eight others were injured, with four in critical condition, and all the victims were students aged 14 to 17, said Albert Palencia, mayor of Banga town in South Cotabato, where the shooting took place. The incident follows two fatal gun incidents since June at schools in the Philippines, where school shootings were previously rare."The suspect supposedly sat beside his friends and told them to go home 'be

China Rare Earth Group in talks to buy MP Materials shareholder Shenghe Resources, sources say

Iranians rally by the hundreds of thousands in biggest show of defiance since war began

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Berlin's acute housing shortage and soaring rents dominate city election

Berliners cycle, picnic and fly kites on the city's vast former Tempelhof airfield that opened as a park in 2010, yet developers are circling and whether to build homes on the historic site has dominated debate ahead of an election on Sunday. While immigration has featured prominently in other German state elections and driven a surge in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, in Berlin, where 85% of households rent their homes, housing and rents are voters' top concerns.The city will need 211,000 more homes by 2040 and advertised rents have nearly doubled since 2014, s

Voting begins in Russian parliamentary election which Putin has cast as barometer of support for war

Nestle weighing all options after Kremlin moves to seize Russia business

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SK Hynix's Solidigm unit is weighing NAND memory chip factory in US, sources say

Chipmaker SK Hynix's subsidiary Solidigm is considering building a NAND flash memory chip factory in the US, with upstate New York emerging as a leading candidate, three people familiar with the matter said.The South Korean chipmaker faces growing pressure from the Trump administration to expand US manufacturing, with Washington pushing to reshore semiconductor production as huge investments in AI data centres dry up global supplies of memory chips.The proposed project would be separate from SK Hynix's discussions with Intel to make memory chips at the US chipmaker's Ohio facility, the source

China set to keep loan rates steady for 16th consecutive month in September

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White House pulls ICE director nominee

The White House is pulling former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer’s stalled nomination to serve as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.In June, President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he would nominate Schroyer, putting a little-known candidate in line to lead an agency critical to the administration’s immigration crackdown.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had chosen Schroyer after his first proposed pick for the role caused friction with some White House officials. Mullin called Schroyer, who was part of his security detail in the Senate, a “good fri

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Man who sprayed Minnesota Rep. Omar with vinegar sentenced to 14 months in prison

The man who sprayed vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Minneapolis town hall was sentenced Thursday to 14 months in prison after reaching a deal with prosecutors. The sentencing of 56-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak came nearly eight months after the Jan. 27 assault. At the time, Minneapolis-St. Paul was facing an immigration crackdown that led to angry protests, arrests and the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal officers. Kazmierczak was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, which includes no contact with Omar. U.S. marshals escor

Trump says 'hopefully we are towards end' of Iran war

GOP congresswoman breaks with Trump in new ad ahead of midterms: ‘Feel betrayed’

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UN mission finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran, and Tehran crimes against humanity

(Adds U.S. reaction in paragraphs 4 and 5)By Olivia Le PoidevinGENEVA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.It also found that Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their deadly crackdown on anti-government protests.The findings in a new report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

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Nebraska Senate candidate responds to leaked audio criticizing Trump voters: ‘We’re all angry right now’

Nebraska independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn on Wednesday appeared to confirm the authenticity of a leaked recording in which he is purported to criticize voters who support President Donald Trump.“Billy Bob in f**king Red Cloud, Nebraska, who lives next door to the f**king Trump store as you pull into town and is waving the Trump flag … all he knows is he’s like on the winning team,” a speaker said in audio obtained by the Omaha World-Herald. “He’s been so effective at taking Billy Bob and his wife Mary Jane or Mary Jo and telling them, look we’re winning. You’re on the wi

House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote

Wall St ends lower after Fed hikes interest rates, sees more tightening ahead

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Mbappé and Vinícius caught in Spain's great migration debate after obscuring message on Ceuta shirts

Real Madrid stars Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior have found themselves in the middle of a supercharged political and social debate in Spain about migration and the country’s relations with Morocco. The reason is their decision to cover up part of the message on a T-shirt in support for Ceuta — a small Spanish city located on the north African coast — that players for both Madrid and Elche were supposed to wear before their league game on Tuesday. Ceuta was overwhelmed by a mass crossing of some 80,000 people, mostly from neighboring Morocco, in late Jul

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Man who sprayed Minnesota Rep. Omar with vinegar sentenced to 14 months in prison

British university reinstates Egyptian student who was suspended after pro-Palestinian protests

The water cycle you learned about in school is off balance. The consequences affect everyone on Earth

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Narges Mohammadi speaks to CNN from Tehran after temporary prison release: “This is my duty”

During her incarceration at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi would smuggle out fragments of writing with the help of her friends and fellow inmates.The risks were enormous; Mohammadi, 54, has suffered violent beatings, fallen gravely ill and spent much of the last two decades in prison, away from her children, for her activism against the Iranian regime.“One of my friends was trying to take out just three sheets of paper on a visiting day, but the prison security forces confiscated them from her,” Mohammadi told CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh Wednesday in o

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi’s memoir details abuse in Iranian prison. She’s prepared for the consequences

Trump sees three new GOP defections in House vote to end Iran war

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Trump’s golf course renovation could cost up to $49 million, documents show

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One place you won’t find President Trump? Starring in Republican ads

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Trump withdraws Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, as his nominee to lead ICE

The White House says it is withdrawing its nomination of Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ensuring that an agency at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda will remain without a Senate-confirmed leader for at least a while longer

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Airlines are cutting cheaper flights amid latest jet fuel spike

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Mortgage rates climb for fourth-straight week to hit highest level since Trump took office

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Todd Boehly and Mark Walter sell Chelsea shares, Clearlake now has full control

Chelsea says Todd Boehly and fellow co-owner Mark Walter have sold their stakes in the English Premier League club

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Former US Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, a 'workhorse' who shaped water policy, dies at 84

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AI rivalry hangs over Trump-Xi talks

The race for AI supremacy is set to hang over next week's meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington.

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Why is China less worried about an AI dystopia than the US?

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The Fed just raised rates. Here’s what it means for borrowers and savers

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls