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Megaworld Global Hotels and Resorts invites travelers to explore PH at Travel Sale Expo 2026

TRAVEL dreams are meant to be lived – and with the holidays just around the corner, now may be the perfect time to turn those plans into bookings. Megaworld Global Hotels and Resorts (MGHR) is bringing its TARA! travel offers to the Travel Sale Expo 2026, happening on Oct. 2 to 4 at SM Megamall, giving travelers an …

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One Nation vows to abolish First Nations treaty and legalise pepper spray at Victorian campaign launch

Candidate Mark Nicholson said former premiers Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan would be ‘in prison by Christmas’ if One Nation won the electionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne Nation has launched its Victorian election campaign, vowing to legalise the personal use of pepper spray, aboli…

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‘Balanced and acceptable’: labour chief defends helper wage rise amid criticism

Hong Kong’s stronger economic performance over the past year was the reason for raising the monthly minimum wage for foreign domestic helpers by 2.35 per cent, the labour minister has said, amid disappointment from both unions and employers’ groups. Defending the government’s decision to raise the monthly minimum wa…

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Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilities

Western Libya’s GNU say working with Saddam Haftar ‘impossible’ as US-backed merger plan breaks downAllegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based…

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The American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden

John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found Nestled between two mountain ranges at the crook of central California’s coastline sits a valley known as the “salad bowl of the world”.Farm workers stoop over neatly lined …

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‘The enemy is tearing our city apart’: terror in Kyiv as Russia ramps up attacks

Mayor Vitali Klitschko says Kyivans can no longer pretend it is ‘peacetime’ amid strikes on school, hospital and bridgeValeriya Tkachenko was dropping her son off at school in central Kyiv when the air raid alert sounded. Staff hurried the children and parents into the shelter, where the frightened lawyer spent the …

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Can Britain really afford to diverge from EU tariffs on Chinese EVs?

The European Union’s demand that Britain raise tariffs on Chinese cars exposes an awkward truth about post-Brexit trade. Britain might have left the EU, but it cannot easily escape the bloc’s industrial policy. According to the Financial Times, EU officials have told Prime Minister Andy Burnham that Britain needs to…

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State-run banks deny outside pressure over ‘Assassin(s)’ investment

South Korea’s two state-run banks denied on Saturday that outside pressure influenced their investment in the controversial historical film “Assassin(s),” saying the decisions were made independently. Industrial Bank of Korea said it decided to invest in the film after conducting its own internal review, while Korea…

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Latvia holds election as concerns over Russia, inflation dominate

Latvia will vote on Saturday in an election shaped by concerns over neighbouring Russia and the cost of living, but the result is not expected to steer the country off its pro-European and pro-Ukrainian course. The centre-right United List party of incumbent Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs is at the head of the race,…

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Flood watch for most of Victoria as heavy rain continues with storms forecast in parts of NSW

BoM expects falls of up to 90mm in parts of Victoria as severe weather system continues to sweep the southern statesA severe weather system continues to dump heavy rain into sodden riverine catchments across Victoria, sparking widespread warnings of transport disruption and delays.The Bureau of Meteorology has issue…

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PGA Tour winner Kim Joo-hyung captures men's golf gold medal, helps S. Korea win team silver

PGA Tour winner Kim Joo-hyung captured the men's golf gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, while also helping South Korea take silver in the team event. Kim shot six-under 64 in the final round at Kasugai Country Club East Course in Kasugai, just northeast of the main host city of Nagoya, to finis…

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Flydubai co-pilot used crash axe to attack captain, says UAE

Attorney general says ‘terrorist attack’ was attempted by suspect who is said to have been barred from flying by Oman because of extremist viewsThe co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073 used an axe to attempt to carry out a “terrorist attack” during the Israel-bound flight, the United ⁠Arab Emirates prosecutor general …

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Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc

Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of electionShortly after his controversial speech to the United Nations general assembly in September, Donald Trum…

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Ancient Greek myths, rewritten for a world in crisis

Classics and myths have a way of making us look at humanity and society across the ages. The buzz surrounding Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey," his adaptation of Homer’s epic, is a reminder that stories of heroes from thousands of years ago can still speak to urgent questions about the world today — including the f…

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Digging deep to innovate

It was a proverbial scene of calm before the storm: Two students were playing basketball in the corner of a large dirt playing field while a group of students sat on the steps of the steep stands, taking shelter from the blazing heat of the September afternoon in the shadow of a thick canopy of trees. All of that wi…

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Sayuwon's first music festival opens with moonlight performance of Beethoven's 'Pastoral'

DAEGU — On a Friday evening in September, the Korean National Symphony Orchestra traded the concert hall for a mountaintop in Gunwi County, Daegu. Led by Adrien Perruchon, music director of the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra opened Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, the "Pastoral," as a half-moon hung to the…

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Bibigo gimbap sales surge 59% in US

CJ CheilJedang’s US sales of Bibigo gimbap jumped 59 percent on-year in the first seven months of 2026, the company said Thursday, as it pushes to make the Korean staple an everyday meal for American consumers. According to CJ, the number of US stores selling its Bibigo gimbap product has surged to 4,734 this year, …

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Under the stars, among the sounds of the Gayasan forest

SEONGJU, North Gyeongsang Province — Every window in the classroom is open. A group of visitors lies on yoga mats with their eyes closed as a cricket starts up outside, then a bird, then the steady drone of cicadas. A singing bowl rings once, and the room goes quiet. The exercise is the final stage of "Forest Sound …

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