Filed from the World desk — including multi-city pieces that also ran elsewhere.
Business · 1 October 2026
After months of wobbling, Middle East oil exports inch toward the high‑water mark of the 1970s, leaving analysts to wonder whether the only thing that’s truly recovered is the region’s appetite for spreadsheets.
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World · 1 October 2026
Swiss glaciers have lost more than 5% of their ice this year, threatening water supplies and ecosystems across Europe, while the country’s residents consider whether they should start selling water like a luxury commod…
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AI Wire · 1 October 2026
After a dinner with Silicon Valley leaders, Trump announced a new AI safety framework, renamed AI as "Super Intelligence" and dismissed Democratic concerns as a hoax. The details remain vague.
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Business · 1 October 2026
The President’s directive to rename artificial intelligence as ‘Super Intelligence’ has sent tech firms scrambling to adjust marketing decks, while researchers mutter that ‘super’ may be a euphemism for a new b…
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World · 1 October 2026
A Tennessee death row inmate survived a second dose of pentobarbital, forcing officials to rethink lethal injection protocols while the inmate enjoys an unintended inpatient stay.
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World · 1 October 2026
An Israeli plumber aboard flight FZ1073 to Tel Aviv stepped in after a pilot was stabbed, using his trade‑tools to keep the aircraft from nosediving and shepherding passengers to safety.
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Environment · 1 October 2026
A two‑dose lethal injection intended to end the life of long‑time death‑row inmate Christa Pike fizzled, leaving her alive and breathing, prompting officials to rethink the execution timeline.
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World · 1 October 2026
The Brooks River’s annual Fat Bear Week has become a global livestream spectacle, with viewers rating brown bears as they inhale sockeye salmon and bulk up for winter. The competition is less about sport and more about…
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Finance · 1 October 2026
A federal panel, identical to the one that found Trump’s earlier tariff proposals unlawful, has again struck down the former president’s latest attempt to impose a worldwide tariff regime, leaving his trade war ambit…
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