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Thursday, October 8, 2026

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A can of Sapporo premium beer on a wooden table beside a plate of sashimi

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Japan raids its four biggest brewers over a suspected beer price cartel

Asahi, Kirin, Sapporo and Suntory, which together hold roughly 90% of Japan's beer market, confirmed on-site inspections by the Fair Trade Commission.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2026

The long stone facade of the BND foreign intelligence headquarters in Berlin at dusk

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Germany arrests its former spy chief over 2,000 leaked BND documents

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

The facade of Lycée Hélène Boucher, a public high school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris

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French police fire tear gas as 266,000 rally nationwide for school funding

Monday, October 5, 2026

Bar chart of Brazil's first-round presidential vote share: Flavio Bolsonaro 47.0%, Lula 45.1%, Renan Santos 2.2%, Ronaldo Caiado 2.1%

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Flavio Bolsonaro leads Lula into Brazil's October 25 runoff vote

Sunday, October 4, 2026

A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet of the type flydubai operates, in flight

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UAE says the flydubai co-pilot used a cockpit crash axe in the attack
Distillation towers and storage tanks at an oil refinery under a clear sky

World

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will hit Russian refineries harder this winter

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaking at a lectern beside the national flag

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Brazil votes Sunday with Lula and a Bolsonaro separated by five points
Bar chart of coordinated oil reserve releases: 182 million barrels in 2022, 400 million in March 2026, 100 million now

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G7 frees 100 million barrels of diesel and crude after Trump threat

Friday, October 2, 2026

The skyline of Seoul, South Korea, seen across the Han River

World

Seoul threatens further action against Ukraine over a prisoner disclosure
An aircraft carrier under way at sea, seen from directly overhead with jets on deck

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US sends a third carrier and 9,000 troops to the Mideast as Trump weighs strikes

Thursday, October 1, 2026

A Flydubai Boeing 737-800 taxiing head-on along a runway lined with trees at Dhaka airport

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Netanyahu credits stabbed Flydubai captain with stopping a midair crash
Aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, with the Potomac River and Washington, D.C. skyline behind it

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Pentagon says the last US troops have left Iraq, ending a 12-year ISIS mission

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