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What ethnicity is Dua Lipa? Singer celebrates passing her GCSE Spanish exam
Dua Lipa announced on Monday, October 13, that she has passed her GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) Spanish exam. She posted an Instagram story with her certificate and also thanked her teacher. Lipa has become one of the biggest...
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I helped disarm Iraq in 2003 – this is how Hamas’s guns could be removed
One of the big unknowns around the Gaza ceasefire deal is the fate of Hamas's weaponry What we all got wrong after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 was to have no plan for what happened next. The vacuum left by disbanding the Iraqi police force...
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Cooper to host talks on security and migration at Western Balkans summit
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Celebrities: Death in September 2025
Dhimitër Anagnosti, 89, Albanian film director (The Return of the Dead Army, Përralle Nga e Kaluara) and politician, minister of culture (1992–1994) and MP (1991–1996). Jimmy Bone, 75, Scottish football player (Partick Thistle, St Mirren) and...
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Christopher Merrill stepping down after 25 years directing UI International Writing Program
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The Gazette - Iowa
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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — At a pay phone 25 years ago in the exclusive picturesque Mount Athos in Greece — center of the Eastern Orthodox Church and home to 20-some...
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When Is the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Announcement and Could Trump Win?
Nobel Peace Prize 2025 (Credit: iStock and AP) The Nobel Prize season is upon us, with the 2025 award for physiology or medicine announced on Monday, October 6. Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi took home the prize for...
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Can Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize – and who nominated him?
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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Turkey ready to help rebuild Gaza, but tensions with Israel could be a barrier
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey wants to take part in rebuilding Gaza and is ready to join a peacekeeping force once the fighting ends, however analysts warn strained relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv could stand in the way....
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World Associated Press UK sees lessons from Northern Ireland that could aid the fragile Gaza ceasefire process
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Yahoo News
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LONDON (AP) — As Israelis and Palestinians wait anxiously to see what comes after a ceasefire in the two-year war in Gaza, the experience of the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s may offer lessons in the thorny process of moving from...
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UK sees lessons from Northern Ireland that could aid the fragile Gaza ceasefire process
LONDON (AP) — As Israelis and Palestinians wait anxiously to see what comes after a ceasefire in the two-year war in Gaza, the experience of the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s may offer lessons in the thorny process of moving from...
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Albania’s EU ties strongest in Balkans
TIRANA, Oct. 7 (TemA) — Albania has the closest economic links to the European Union among Western Balkan states, a Vienna study says. The index ranks Albania ahead of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Montenegro. Kosovo lacked...
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The media landscape of the Western Balkans and Turkey: Stuck in transition
This article was originally published on the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) website If journalism is to survive, it must not only defend itself legally and through unions, but also revolutionarily redefine...
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What was Prishtina like with Përparim Rama?
When Përparim Rama entered the political scene in Kosovo during the 2021 local elections, many considered him a breath of fresh air for the governance of Prishtina. This was because he did not come from party structures, but it was also due to his...
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Ireland’s maths gender gap: why boys are getting twice as many top grades
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In Kosovo this April, a team of four girls between the ages of 15 and 18 represented Ireland at the prestigious European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO). They achieved our second-best set of results since the competition was founded in 2012,...
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Meet the candidate 2025: City Council At-Large pt. 1
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In the 2025 election, four candidates are seeking two at-large seats on the Marshalltown city council: JBS employee and bus driver Tim Bradbury, Iowa Department of Transportation Emergency Management Coordinator Scott McLain, retired educator and...
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Field Marshal Lord Guthrie: a life of spiritual and military service
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The Catholic Herald
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William Cash attends the Requiem Mass at Westminster Cathedral for Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank Under a grey October sky, shortly after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, 15 October, a solitary riderless horse – with its boots reversed in the stirrups – stood...
Si ishte Prishtina me Përparim Ramën?
Kur Përparim Rama u shfaq në skenën politike të Kosovës në kohën e zgjedhjeve lokale të vitit 2021, shumëkush e pa si frymë të re për qeverisjen e Prishtinës. Jo vetëm për shkak se nuk vinte nga strukturat të partive, por edhe për shkak të...
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Lea Ypi: Dignity is not something waiting to be recovered from the past
Renowned professor and political theorist Lea Ypi, celebrated for her acclaimed memoir “Free,” returns with a captivating new book that confronts the challenges of surviving and finding meaning in an age of extremes. Recently released, “Indignity”...
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Albania's Specialized Prosecutor's Office is at the center of a political storm
After more than five hours of hearings in parliament, anti-corruption prosecutor Altin Dumani warned of attacks against Albania's Specialized Prosecutor's Office (SPAK). He called for the protection of the independence of the judiciary from...
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Europe's ripple effect: Media freedom reimagined
This article was originally published on the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) website We live in an era when the very foundations of journalism are being renegotiated—between the demands of digital capitalism,...
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