Britain’s disgraced former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor filed legal action on Monday seeking to overturn search warrants used to search his residences. Police arrested the 66-year-old on February 19 on suspicion of misconduct linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has since died.

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Britain’s former Prince Andrew has launched legal proceedings seeking to quash warrants that led to searches of his residences.

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A court hearing is scheduled for Thursday after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked a judge to assess whether the search warrants that led to his arrest in February were lawful, Britain’s judicial office said. He is King Charles’s brother.

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Samoa Prime Minister Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt has apologized for a 2007 video showing him making a Nazi gesture and saying “Heil Hitler.”

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Samoa Prime Minister La’auli Leuatea Schmidt has apologised after a newly surfaced 2007 video showed him leading a Nazi salute and saying “Heil Hitler” at a family gathering on Savai‘i. He called the words and gesture inappropriate, rejected Nazism, antisemitism, racism and extremism, and said the episode did not reflect his beliefs or Samoa’s values.

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South Korea said on Monday that a recent explosion near the border was caused by mines planted by North Korea, seriously injuring two South Korean soldiers.

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The 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to three experts in optogenetics, a technique that helps reveal how nerve cells shape memories and feelings in the brain.

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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, the prize-giving body said Monday.

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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced.

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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The three scientists will share a prize of 12m Swedish kronor.

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Three scientists have received the medicine Nobel for examining how the brain controls nerve cells between active and inactive states.

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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, the awarding body said on Monday.

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US President Donald Trump has created a taskforce focused on artificial intelligence, led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. It will coordinate the federal government’s engagement with the public and industry while seeking to keep the US at the forefront of the technology’s development.

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President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he was forming an artificial intelligence task force and named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to lead it.

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Saudi Aramco’s CEO warned that restoring global oil inventories could take as long as two years. He said the squeeze may worsen while the U.S.-Iran war continues.

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Estonia is moving troops and weaponry toward its border with Russia under its so-called active defense program, the Financial Times reports. A new base is being built in Narva for up to 1,000 troops, while Tallinn says Moscow does not want a full-scale war with NATO in at least the next two years. Estonia bought nine HIMARS systems from the US last year.

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A high school protest movement that began a week ago is continuing to spread across France, with demonstrations at more than 1,200 schools and over 5,000 arrests, most involving minors. Students are angry about chronic underfunding of state schools and alleged racial and economic disparities in how public resources are allocated.

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Israel has barred the UK Green Party leader after the party voted to define Zionism as racism. Jewish groups said the motion stokes hatred amid a series of attacks on their community, while Labour and the Conservatives condemned the policy; at least three of the five Green MPs opposed it.

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Vivien Lichtenstein, head of the Jewish Greens, says she may leave the Green Party after members adopted a binding policy equating Zionism with racism and calling for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state. She calls the motion unhelpful, while anger grows over leader Zack Polanski’s absence from the vote. The policy is expected to face a legal challenge under equality law.

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Satellite imagery shows that Yemeni forces have seized strategic sites near the Bab el Mandab Strait.

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Portuguese political analyst and former MEP João Albuquerque says a Bolsonaro victory could move Brazil further away from the European Union. He says Lula brought the sides closer on trade, climate and democratic values, including progress on the Mercosur deal.

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Right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro unexpectedly finished first in Sunday’s election, ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Neither won a majority, sending the contest to a run-off in three weeks. Bolsonaro took 47% of the vote to Lula’s 45%, putting him in a “very strong position,” according to France 24 correspondent Time Vickery.

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Brazil’s presidential election is headed to a runoff after no candidate won at least 50% in the first round. Incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro will face each other on October 25. With 99.70% of electronic records processed, Bolsonaro led with 47.09% against Lula’s 45.09%; turnout exceeded 78.93%.

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Bolsonaro surged to an unexpected lead over Lula in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, making him the overwhelming favorite to win the runoff and push Latin America’s heavyweight nation sharply to the right.

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Family members of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro made major gains in Sunday’s general election. His eldest son, right-wing lawmaker Flavio Bolsonaro, overtook President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the first-round presidential vote after pledging during the campaign to seek amnesty for his imprisoned father.

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Brazil’s closely contested presidential election will go to a runoff after incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro both failed to secure the 50 percent needed for an outright victory.

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Yemen’s army is set to begin operations to retake territory captured by the Houthis, as fighting between the Saudi Arabia-backed government and Iran-backed rebels escalates.

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Yemen’s internationally recognized government has announced a new offensive to retake territory held by the Iran-backed Houthis. The announcement followed the rebels’ capture of a key road linking Taiz and Aden, effectively isolating Taiz. More than 70 people were reportedly killed in fighting around the city over the past day.

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