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The Supreme Court Let Third-Country Deportations Resume in a 6-3 Order, With Arguments Due in December

The conservative majority lifted a lower court requirement that migrants get a meaningful chance to raise fear of torture before being sent to a country other than their own, over a dissent warning the policy risks persecution and death.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

The Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, where the justices issued the 6-3 order on third-country deportations, photographed in July 2018

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US Forces Completed a 23-Year Presence in Iraq, Pulling the Last Troops From Erbil

The Pentagon said roughly 1,500 American and coalition troops left Erbil Airbase in an orderly departure, closing out Operation Inherent Resolve and a withdrawal deal first struck between Baghdad and the Biden administration in 2024.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

A view of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, home to the Erbil Airbase the last US and coalition troops left, photographed in March 2022

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A Ten-Minute X-Ray Flash Points to Colliding Neutron Stars Giving Birth to a Magnetar

Astronomers tracking an Einstein Probe flash say the longest prompt X-ray burst ever tied to a neutron star merger lasted nearly ten minutes, and that a newborn magnetar is the likeliest engine.

Sep 30, 2026/2 min read

The four 8.2-metre telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal in Chile, which took the follow-up observations, photographed in 2015

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Timnit Gebru, Jalila Haider and Two Women-Led Groups Win the 2026 Right Livelihood Award

The Stockholm-based prize honours the AI researcher, a Hazara human rights lawyer from Pakistan, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association and the Rural Women's Assembly of Southern Africa.

Sep 30, 2026/2 min read

Timnit Gebru, one of the 2026 Right Livelihood laureates, speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2018

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Spain Approves an Eviction Ban to 2030 and Rent Rollovers After an 87-Year-Old's Removal Sparked Mass Protests

The cabinet approved two decrees on Tuesday, including a ban on evictions until 2030 and automatic rental renewals, days after a wheelchair user was carried out of her Madrid flat. Congress must still ratify them.

Sep 30, 2026/2 min read

The Puerta del Sol in central Madrid, where protesters set up a camp of tents over the housing crisis, photographed in September 2026

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Iran's Araghchi Met Qatari Mediators in New York, Awaiting Washington's Answer on the Hormuz Plan

Days after Trump rejected Iran's seven day plan as unacceptable, its foreign minister discussed fresh ideas with Qatari go-betweens due to be relayed to the US, while an American official said any deal still hinges on Iran's nuclear programme.

Sep 29, 2026/2 min read

The Doha skyline in Qatar, illustrative of the government mediating the Hormuz talks and not the New York meeting itself, photographed in January 2020

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Jewish Youths Attacked Two Arab Men Near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, and Eleven Were Arrested

Video showed a mob pushing one man to the ground and chasing him before police intervened, in an overnight riot that also saw a Border Police officer hurt by a thrown bottle near the Old City during the Sukkot holiday crowds.

Sep 29, 2026/2 min read

Damascus Gate, the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City named in this report, photographed in November 2022

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Five Men Arrested Near RAF Fairford Over a Suspected Terror Plot Were Released on Bail

The five Londoners in their early to mid twenties were held on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences after a farmer reported vans and a group of masked men near the US-used air base, and remain under stringent bail conditions.

Sep 29, 2026/3 min read

A security fence around RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, the air base near which the five men were arrested, photographed in June 2022

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Swiss Voters Reject Stricter Neutrality Rules by About 70 Percent, Leaving Sanctions on Russia Possible

An initiative to write "perpetual and armed" neutrality into the Swiss constitution and bar most sanctions was beaten on Sunday, a result that lets Bern keep mirroring European Union measures against Russia.

Sep 28, 2026/2 min read

The Federal Palace of Switzerland in Bern, seat of the government and parliament that campaigned against the neutrality initiative, photographed in June 2018

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The Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza Passed 74,000 as the October Ceasefire Remains Stalled

Gaza's Health Ministry said 74,016 people have died and 175,068 have been wounded since the war began, with 1,145 Palestinians killed since last October's ceasefire even as Hamas has not disarmed and reconstruction has not begun.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

Damage in the Gaza Strip during the war, illustrative of the destruction referenced in the death toll report and not a scene from this week, photographed in October 2023

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Russia and Ukraine Traded Strikes That Killed at Least Ten People as the Aerial War Intensified

Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy while Ukrainian strikes on refineries and industrial sites in Krasnodar killed six, as Trump urged Zelensky to settle with Putin.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

Destruction in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, after a Russian attack, illustrative of strikes on the city named in this report and not this week's attack itself, photographed in December 2023