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U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office | Photo Credit: AP The BBC has asked a judge to order U.S. President Donald Trump to set a firm date to give sworn testimony in his $10-billion defamation lawsuit against the network, court filings showed. Mr. Trump’s lawyers had previously agreed for the President to sit…
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Author Sally Rooney. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Irish novelist Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be sold in Britain over her plans to use her royalties to support Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group banned as a terrorist organisation, Rooney and her publisher said on Wednesday (October 14, 2026). The bestselling author, known for novels…
Indian-origin U.S. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. File | Photo Credit: AP The Indian-origin U.S. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on Wednesday (October 14, 2026) voiced concern over reports of the removal of 13 crore voter names from the draft electoral rolls in India. “I am deeply concerned about the actions of the Indian government to purge 130 million…
Iran-backed Houthi rebels hit the headquarters of the Saudi state-owned oil company Aramco in an overnight strike, two regional officials said on Wednesday (October 14, 2026), damaging the offices of the firm’s chief executive and other top officials. The strike, in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Dhahran, was the latest demonstration of the Houthis’…
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File picture of a carriage horse is covered with a blanket, waiting for customers on Central Park South in New York | Photo Credit: AP New York City is set to phase out its iconic horse-drawn carriages under proposed legislation named after an 18-year-old Indian tourist who died following a carriage accident in Central Park….
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Professors Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics this year “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation”. In this piece, we take a longue durée view of macroeconomics to situate their work within the context of political economy. In many ways, the field has come full circle from the…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand. Credit: X/@narendramodi India-Canada relations have “enormous potential” amidst an uncertain global scenario, said Canada Foreign Minister Anita Anand in New Delhi on Wednesday (October 14, 2026). Ms. Anand met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar as both countries reviewed a…
Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A cargo ship has sunk after hitting a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps navy said. It was the first time Iran has reported a ship sinking after hitting a mine during the war. There were few details, including…
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United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix speaks during an interview on October 14, 2026 | Photo Credit: Reuters A visiting senior United Nations official on Wednesday (October 14, 2026) reaffirmed the body’s commitment to stability in Lebanon as the mandate of its peacekeeping force in the country is set to expire this year….
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Ukraine on Wednesday (October 14, 2026) accused the United States of helping Russia by failing to warn it of incoming missile strikes and hobbling its military response through changes to the Starlink system it uses on the battlefield. President Volodymyr Zelensky framed the lack of notice about a wave of powerful strikes on Tuesday (October…
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