Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least 16 people and injured 56, Ukrainian authorities said. A separate six-day ceasefire around Russian-occupied Oleshky entered its third day, with officials saying it was holding and aid deliveries were expected to begin Friday.
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A Russian drone struck two passenger trains at a station in Dnipro, killing at least 14 people and injuring 14.
A Russian cruise missile killed two 15-year-old girls in Chernihiv, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Three civilians died when a Russian drone hit an apartment block in Kremenchuk.
Ukrainian authorities said the strikes injured 56 people in total, including 10 children.
The localized ceasefire around Oleshky began Tuesday and was planned to last six days.
Officials from both sides said the truce was holding as Russian engineers cleared mines from roads for a humanitarian convoy.
Aid deliveries were due to start Friday for about 2,000 people in Oleshky, and officials said residents could evacuate toward either Russia or Ukraine.
Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses downed 1,214 Ukrainian drones overnight; Moscow's mayor said about half were heading toward the capital.
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Health experts want mammogram reports to use a standard method for noting breast arterial calcification. They say this could help improve cardiovascular disease prevention for women.
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Breast arterial calcification can be seen on mammograms.
Health experts are calling for standardized reporting of this finding.
The proposed reporting change aims to support cardiovascular disease prevention.
The prevention effort focuses on women.
The article does not describe a specific reporting standard or study.
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Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan discussed his novel “What We Can Know” with France 24’s Olivia Salazar-Winspear as the book was translated into French. The conversation covered its imagined 22nd-century society, climate change, literature and the possible effects of artificial intelligence on human civilization.
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The novel is set in a 22nd-century society after a major event called the “derangement.”
In the novel, many 21st-century capital cities have been submerged.
The story follows academics pursuing a mythical lost poem.
The interview considered climate change and the future consequences of the climate crisis.
McEwan and Salazar-Winspear discussed celebrity artists and the possible decline of reading.
McEwan shared views on how artificial intelligence could reshape human civilization.
The France 24 interview was published on October 29, 2026, as the novel was translated into French.
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A Federal Reserve-monitored inflation gauge rose faster in September, with prices up 3.6% from a year earlier and 0.5% from August. Higher fuel costs drove much of the increase, while prices for services including shipping, hotel rooms and utilities also climbed.
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The Commerce Department reported that consumer prices rose 3.6% in September compared with a year earlier, up from 3.4% in August.
Prices increased 0.5% from August to September, compared with a 0.3% monthly increase in August.
The monthly increase was the highest since May.
Rising gas prices drove much of the inflation increase.
The article said renewed violence in the Middle East kept oil prices above $100 a barrel, compared with less than $70 before the Iran war.
Costs for shipping, hotel rooms and utilities rose rapidly from August to September.
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Alphabet reported $128 billion in revenue and more than $26 billion in net income for the third quarter of 2026, while its share price fell nearly 12% after the results. Google said AI Mode searches earn less than standard web searches and announced plans to expand advertising in AI Mode as it increases investment in AI infrastructure.
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Alphabet's third-quarter revenue rose 25% from a year earlier to almost $128 billion.
Net income exceeded $26 billion, nearly $9 billion below the same quarter a year earlier.
Alphabet reported earnings per share of $2.12, below analysts' consensus estimate of $3.02.
Google Cloud revenue topped $30 billion, about $1 billion above analyst expectations.
Google search volume grew 12% year over year, compared with 17% in the second quarter and 19% in the first quarter.
Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said an AI Mode query currently earns less than a comparable standard web search because it carries fewer ads that cost less to run.
Google plans to expand AI Mode ads in more countries and introduce ads that change during conversations in the United States.
Alphabet reported $51.4 billion in third-quarter capital spending and forecast total spending of $195 billion to $205 billion in 2026; it is targeting more than $300 billion in AI investment in 2027.
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King Charles III’s Caribbean tour has prompted calls for a formal apology and reparations for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade. In the Bahamas, he acknowledged past suffering and injustice, but campaigners said his remarks did not meet their demands; Buckingham Palace says he will not issue a formal apology.
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Charles began a nine-day Caribbean tour in the Bahamas on Tuesday.
He was scheduled to visit Guyana and then travel to Antigua and Barbuda for a meeting of Commonwealth leaders.
In the Bahamas, Charles said Britain should acknowledge the suffering and injustices of the colonial past.
Protesters in Nassau called for compensation for Britain’s role in the slave trade.
The chair of the Bahamas National Reparations Committee said Charles’s remarks fell short of campaigners’ expectations.
Buckingham Palace says decisions on a formal apology belong to the British government, while Charles is willing to discuss Britain’s involvement.
The article says about 5 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Caribbean between the 15th and 19th centuries, including more than 2 million to British colonies.
When Britain abolished slavery across most of its empire in 1834, the government compensated slave owners, not the enslaved.
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Arizona will distribute restitution from a $1.2 million fund to eligible veterans who paid VetLink Solutions for help with VA disability claims. The fund follows a consent judgment resolving state allegations that the company misled veterans and charged fees for services it was not accredited to provide.
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said restitution checks are expected to go out this week.
Veterans had to pay VetLink Solutions for disability-claim assistance between January 2019 and March 13, 2024.
Eligible veterans also had to submit a restitution claim by September 10, 2026.
VetLink Solutions paid $1.2 million into the restitution fund.
The state alleged the company falsely marketed its services and charged disabled veterans contingency fees.
The state said VetLink Solutions lacked the accreditation required to perform services reserved for VA-accredited representatives.
Some veterans paid fees of up to $12,000, according to the Arizona Attorney General's Office.
The settlement payments are restitution for fees veterans paid, not additional VA disability benefits.
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Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro left for the United States with his family after losing the election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won by more than 4 million votes. Flavio called himself Brazil’s “true president” and alleged an electoral coup; analysts quoted in the article said the family’s flight could damage the Bolsonaro brand and weaken support for “Bolsonarism.”
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Flavio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on October 28, 2026, after traveling through Argentina and Ecuador, according to the article.
Lula won the Brazilian election by more than 4 million votes.
Flavio Bolsonaro said he was Brazil’s “true president” and accused the Supreme Court and Lula of staging an electoral coup.
The article says Flavio faces investigations in Brazil related to suspected money laundering, corruption, and campaign funding.
The article reports that Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest and serving a 27-year sentence.
Flavio’s father, Jair, left Brazil for the United States in 2022, and his brother Eduardo went into voluntary exile there last year, according to the article.
Brazil specialists quoted in the article said Flavio’s departure could hurt the family’s image and disappoint supporters.
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A local ceasefire around Russian-occupied Oleshky in southern Ukraine held for a third day, and officials said a humanitarian mission was expected to deliver food and medical supplies to about 2,000 residents. Ukrainian and Russian officials reported no truce violations as engineers cleared mines from roads; officials also said residents could evacuate, though arrangements were unclear.
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The six-day localized ceasefire around Oleshky began Tuesday and was still holding Thursday.
Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said aid deliveries were due to start Friday.
Russian official Yana Lantratova said engineers were clearing mines to prepare a safe route for the aid convoy.
Officials said residents would be able to evacuate to either Russia or Ukraine, but did not explain how the evacuations would work.
The article said the temporary truce was brokered with help from U.S. first lady Melania Trump.
A Russian drone strike on passenger trains in Dnipro killed at least 14 people and injured 14, officials said.
The article reported other Russian strikes killed two teenagers in Chernihiv and three civilians in Kremenchuk.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its air defenses had downed 1,214 Ukrainian drones overnight.
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A jury at Cambridge Crown Court saw CCTV footage of train staff member Samir Zitouni using a frying pan against Anthony Williams during a stabbing attack on a train near Huntingdon on 1 November 2025. Williams denies 14 counts of attempted murder, including alleged attacks on 10 men aboard the train; the trial heard that Zitouni suffered life-threatening injuries and that the violence lasted about five minutes.
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Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC said Zitouni used the frying pan to try to stop Williams and protect others.
The court heard Zitouni had punctured lungs and received four blood transfusions, chest drains and help from a ventilator.
The prosecution said Williams stabbed 10 men aboard the train during an attack that lasted about five minutes.
Williams denies 14 attempted-murder charges, including alleged attacks in Peterborough and London the day before the train incident.
The court heard passenger Scott Green thought Williams would kill him, and that Green's dog, Poppy, helped drive Williams away.
The jury saw footage of passengers fleeing the train and heard that Zitouni appeared to be among the last to leave.
The trial is taking place at Cambridge Crown Court.
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The article describes what it calls a Russian strategy to influence President Donald Trump through praise and economic or political rewards. It cites Putin’s public compliments toward Trump and Elon Musk, and says Russia gained a diesel deal and limited U.S. sanctions relief in October; the provided text ends before it explains the strategy’s third step.
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Putin praised Trump’s response to the 2024 Pennsylvania rally shooting two days after Trump won the election.
In January 2025, Putin said the Ukraine crisis might not have happened if Trump had remained president after the 2020 election.
Putin criticized the Nobel Peace Prize committee after it awarded the 2025 prize to Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado.
Trump thanked Putin on Truth Social after Putin criticized the Nobel committee.
Putin called Elon Musk a “real genius” and said Russia lagged behind Starlink.
The article says Russia secured a diesel deal with Trump and a limited easing of U.S. sanctions in October.
The article quotes Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying in July that Russia should exploit what he called the U.S. administration’s “dualism” on arming Ukraine and seeking peace.
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Naseem Akhtar and her five siblings, who grew up in Coventry with albinism, say they faced bullying and stigma because of their appearance. Akhtar has spoken publicly about the condition since childhood, while her brother Mohammed Rafi says he experienced greater acceptance as awareness grew.
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Albinism affects melanin production and can cause differences in skin and hair color as well as vision problems.
Both of Akhtar’s parents and all six of their children have albinism; the family has Pakistani heritage.
Akhtar said she was bullied as a child and feared fireworks being thrown through the letterbox on bonfire night.
Akhtar first spoke about albinism on local radio when she was about 11, hoping to challenge mistreatment and misunderstanding.
Rafi, who is 32 and has poor eyesight, said he experienced more acceptance growing up than Akhtar had.
The six siblings received a Guinness World Record in 2022 for the most siblings with albinism.
The siblings’ children do not have albinism but carry the gene.
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High food and energy costs are a major concern for U.S. voters ahead of the November midterm elections. Economist Greg Ip says Congress has limited ability to address some causes, while strong economic growth has not translated into income gains for many households; opposition to AI data centers also reflects broader concerns about artificial intelligence.
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The article says the economy is the top issue for most American voters.
Voters are concerned about high food and energy costs.
Greg Ip says control of Congress would not let lawmakers stop the war in Iran, which he describes as a matter for the president.
Ip says changing control of Congress would not by itself affect tariffs, which he identifies as one source of inflation.
Ip says much of recent GDP growth has benefited companies and wealthier households with stocks tied to the AI boom.
The article says median household incomes have not kept pace with the strong GDP figures.
FRANCE 24 correspondents report backlash against AI data centers in Republican strongholds, including Texas.
Ip says opposition to data centers can serve as a focus for broader anxiety about AI.
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The article describes a UK budget that it says focused on small measures to ease household finances rather than major tax or spending changes. It reports that Chancellor John Healey said the benefits bill would fall, prompting government aides to clarify his remarks to journalists.
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The budget was presented as providing “breathing space” over the coming year.
The article says the budget included small-scale measures aimed at people’s personal finances.
The article says the budget made no major tax or spending commitments.
In a BBC Today interview, Healey said the benefits bill would fall.
Government aides contacted journalists after Healey’s remarks to clarify what he meant.
The article says the government delayed difficult decisions.
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A video of a Red Baron employee, identified as Walt, confronting a prankster drew millions of views and prompted an online fundraiser that surpassed $100,000. The article argues that his help came because his hardship went viral, while many other struggling workers receive no comparable support.
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Walt said he was late getting home, had missed putting his four children to bed, and needed to visit 10 more stores the next day.
In the video, Walt said he could not pay his mortgage and told the prankster that his life was already hard.
The prankster pretended to take Walt’s money using a phone and repeatedly told him the incident was not serious.
The video received millions of views, and the prankster’s Instagram account later went dark.
A stranger in Arizona started a GoFundMe to help Walt.
The fundraiser rose from about $5,500 on Wednesday afternoon to more than $100,000 by early Thursday, after prominent social media accounts shared the story.
The article says social media attention and donations helped Walt but do not address the financial pressures facing other workers.
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Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old American, was released after more than four years in a Russian prison. The article says as many as 10 other Americans, including people with dual Russian nationality, remain in Russian custody and describes several cases; it notes that information from Russia can be difficult to verify.
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Russian authorities convicted Hubbard of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine; he was imprisoned for more than four years before his release.
American musician Travis Michael Leake was arrested in 2023 on drug-sale charges, convicted, and sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2024.
Robert Woodland pleaded partially guilty to Russian drug-trafficking charges and received a 12½-year sentence in 2024; it was reduced to 9½ years in 2025.
David Barnes was sentenced to 21 years in a Russian penal colony in February 2024 after a custody dispute involving his two sons.
Daniel Schneider was sentenced to six years in prison after Russian prosecutors said he tried to take his four-year-old son out of Russia without the mother’s consent.
The article begins a section on U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, who was stationed in South Korea, but the supplied text ends before giving details of his case.
Leake’s family said he was excluded from the August 2024 prisoner exchange that brought home three other U.S. nationals.
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Rebecca Michels and her husband learned during an ultrasound that they were expecting twins. Their daughters, Capri and Kenzie, were born in Sydney on May 28, 2025, and a DNA test later confirmed they are identical twins, despite having separate placentas and amniotic sacs.
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Michels, 37, lives in Sydney, Australia, and has an older son, Braxton.
The twins were born 30 seconds apart on May 28, 2025.
Kenzie needed help breathing and spent five days receiving specialized care, including treatment for low blood sugar.
Nurses suggested a DNA test after noticing how alike the twins looked.
The family took the DNA test in July 2025 and received the results three days later.
The test reported a 99.999999994 percent probability that Capri and Kenzie are identical twins.
Identical twins can have separate placentas and amniotic sacs; this arrangement does not by itself establish that twins are fraternal.
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K Health presents PatientGPT as an AI-powered entry point for health systems. The tool uses patient records and system-defined rules to answer routine questions, route requests and pass cases to clinicians when needed. K Health says its longer-term plan includes proactive care and operation within each health system’s own environment.
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PatientGPT is designed to provide one continuous conversation across health system touchpoints.
The system uses a patient’s medical record to tailor responses and intake questions.
Health systems set the policies that determine where requests go and when clinicians take over.
PatientGPT is intended to route patients to resources such as schedulers, nurses or physicians.
The article says clinicians retain responsibility for clinical judgment.
K Health says a supervising AI layer reviews responses and a security layer protects the process.
K Health’s stated roadmap includes 24/7 care, peer-reviewed clinical AI, platform-based primary care and access to full medical records.
The article describes the current foundation as live, including health system rules, question routing and adaptive intake.
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Sens. Jeff Merkley and Steve Daines proposed a four-part bipartisan agenda to change Senate procedures. In a Washington Post opinion article, they said the changes would address the filibuster and streamline legislative processes.
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Jeff Merkley and Steve Daines proposed the agenda.
The senators described the proposal as bipartisan.
The agenda has four parts.
They presented the proposal in a Washington Post opinion article.
The proposal includes reforming the filibuster.
The proposal aims to streamline legislative processes.
The stated goal is to reduce dysfunction in the Senate.
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