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The Swedish Academy honoured the 76-year-old on 8 October for work that turns Sappho, Greek tragedy and private grief into new literary forms.
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President Romuald Wadagni raised the claim with Emmanuel Macron in Paris on 5 October 2026. It includes the statue of the god Gou in the Louvre and the throne of King Toffa.
Surveys of Zavodovski Island in the South Atlantic found about 402,000 breeding chinstraps in 2025, down from 1.09 million in 2011. The researchers think warming seas have moved the birds' food.
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Six researchers in the United States, Germany, France and Japan were honoured between 5 and 7 October. What each prize recognised, and why the committees thought it mattered.
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A non-binding resolution adopted on 4 September 2026 by 164 votes to one asks governments, schools and technology companies to stop relying on maps that shrink the continent.
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A five-member Court of Arbitration found unanimously on 31 August 2026 that the 1960 river-sharing treaty with Pakistan is still fully in force. India says the court has no authority.
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Europe's oldest monarch died in an Oslo hospital on 28 August 2026. His son succeeded him at once as King Haakon VIII, and the country entered a period of national mourning.
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The electoral commission gave the president 61.4% of the vote on 18 August 2026. Observers called polling day largely peaceful but criticised the conditions around it.
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On 30 July 2026 more than 50,000 people entered the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco. Dozens died, most went back within two days, and Italy and Spain ended up checking each other's travellers.
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A Belgrade digital rights group counted at least 14 targets in 2026. Citizen Lab confirmed one Pegasus infection and Amnesty a new version of a tool tied to Serbian intelligence.
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Prosecutors say 74 restricted servers reached Chinese buyers through forged paperwork and 56 more were seized. Staff of Nvidia and Supermicro are among the accused.
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The Constitutional Council ruled on 14 August 2026 that a blanket ban went too far and left age checks for all users without legal safeguards. It was due to start on 1 September.
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Intruders locked operators out of control equipment at small utilities in late July 2026. Drinking water stayed safe, officials said, and no attacker was formally named.
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A unanimous vote on 16 September 2026 lifted the benchmark rate to 3.75%-4.00%. It was the first policy change under chair Kevin Warsh, whom President Trump chose expecting cuts.
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Nigeria's giant oil refinery opened a 2.15 trillion naira public offering in Lagos on 14 September 2026, described by Reuters as set to be Africa's biggest ever.
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The second quarter-point increase of 2026, announced on 10 September, came with forecasts showing euro area inflation above the 2% target until late 2027.
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The supervisory board unanimously approved the carmaker's Future Plan 2030 on 3 September 2026, leaving the fate of four German plants to be settled by mid-2027.
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Duties on about US$20 billion of Canadian exports took effect on 22 August 2026 after last-minute talks collapsed. It was the first time Section 338 had been used to impose tariffs.
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The airline's board backed a cash offer of £7.15 a share on 6 August 2026. Founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou's family will keep its stake in the privately held company.
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A case report in The Lancet describes the first person to move from a gene-edited pig kidney to a human donor organ. The pig kidney eventually failed, which matters for future trials.
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Two mammoth-ivory carvings from Hohle Fels, weighing 1.3 and 0.7 grams, are the smallest figurines yet found in the Swabian Jura caves, the University of Tübingen said.
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a 300,000-square-foot building designed by the architect Ma Yansong, admitted its first public visitors on 22 September 2026.
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Meeting in Busan in July 2026, the World Heritage Committee listed sites from Normandy's D-Day beaches to Sarnath in India, and put six places on its danger list.
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Brussels found that Google favoured its own services in search and blocked app developers from pointing users to cheaper deals. Google called the result product degradation.
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