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International News Bulletin — October 10, 2026
Politics Trump says Ukraine needs a new president after diesel row – President Donald Trump said on Saturday that “it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president” and that Volodymyr Zelensky “better damn well stop” striking Russian refineries, the Kyiv Independent and France 24 reported. The remarks followed Zelensky’s description of Friday’s US deal […]
Scientific Breakthroughs of the Week — October 10, 2026
🧬 Life Sciences & Medicine Gut bacteria before vaccination tracked with fever after mRNA shots – People whose gut bacteria made more flagellin, the protein that builds bacterial tails, were more likely to run a fever after a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. The team followed stool samples, oral temperature and blood markers over time, then transferred […]
Weekly Financial News — October 9, 2026
🌍 Dominant theme of the week The week of October 5 to 9, 2026 was dominated by a heavy sell-off in long-dated bonds and oil back above $100. On Wednesday the US 10-year yield touched 5.36% and the 30-year 5.73%, the highest since 2002, according to NBC News. On Thursday Brent jumped 5.48% to $105.69 […]
International News Bulletin — October 9, 2026
Politics US imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court itself – Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions on Friday against the International Criminal Court as an institution, after earlier rounds that targeted individual judges and officials, France 24 and the Kyiv Independent reported. According to the Kyiv Independent, the measures would bar transactions with […]
Weekly AI Review — October 9, 2026
🚀 Model & Product Releases Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5 with tiered pricing – Released on October 7 on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, the small model costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts under 100,000 tokens, rising to $0.50 and $2.50 above that […]
International News Bulletin — October 8, 2026
Politics Trump rules out striking Iran before November midterm elections – US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday that “we will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections to be held in the United States on November 3”, adding that Washington is “having productive discussions with the […]
International News Bulletin — October 7, 2026
Politics Vance says Iran must make meaningful enrichment cuts to end war – US Vice President JD Vance told Reuters in an interview published late on Tuesday that any agreement with Tehran would require a “meaningful” reduction in Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity, asking “if you don’t want a nuclear weapon, then why do you need […]
International News Bulletin — October 6, 2026
Politics Parti Québécois wins Quebec election but falls short of majority – Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s sovereigntist party took 59 of the 127 seats in Monday’s provincial vote with about 28 percent of the ballots, five short of a majority, according to CBC News, while the governing Coalition Avenir Québec, which held 79 seats at dissolution, […]
International News Bulletin — October 5, 2026
Politics Flávio Bolsonaro tops Lula, Brazil heads to October 25 runoff – Senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished first in Sunday’s first round with 47.04 percent of valid votes against 45.15 percent for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with 99.96 percent of polling sections counted, according to electoral court figures reported by the Rio Times and […]
International News Bulletin — October 4, 2026
Politics Brazil votes with Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro in a dead heat – Brazilians voted on Sunday for president, state governors, all 513 federal deputies and two-thirds of the Senate, with 158.7 million registered voters according to electoral court figures cited by the Rio Times and Latin Times. The final Datafolha survey put President Luiz […]