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From Dining Tables to the Sky: The Environmental Cost of Indonesia’s Food Self-SufficiencyWorld

Indonesia’s drive for food self-sufficiency and zero rice imports has come with a heavy environmental price linked to land burning, development and agricultural expansion. Intensifying El Niño-related drought has fueled widespread fires, ecological damage, cross-border haze and a public-health crisis. The podcast examines why the problem persists and how ASEAN countries might cooperate against the haze.

LLianhe Zaobao
FBI arrests woman accused of spying on Lai Ching-te’s son at China’s directionPolitics

The FBI arrested Wanying Zhang at Los Angeles International Airport. A criminal complaint alleges that she acted on instructions from Chinese officials to monitor Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s son and charges her with acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Taiwan’s presidential office condemned the alleged conduct as transnational repression.

VVOA Chinese
Optogenetics: 3 researchers win Nobel Prize in medicine for brain researchScience

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics. The light-based biological technique is used to explore the inner workings of the human brain, with possible future applications in treating diseases including Alzheimer’s.

GGlobal News
Spain’s PM calls snap election after housing crisis protestsPolitics

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election after several days of protests over the housing crisis. Polling indicates a right-wing coalition could remove him from office, while lawmakers rejected proposals to address housing just days before the vote was announced.

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Brazil election: Lula to face Bolsonaro in runoffPolitics

Brazil’s presidential election has reshaped the political landscape, sending Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, into a runoff after he won 47 percent of the vote ahead of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula represents the left and Bolsonaro the far right. Bolsonaro supporters also made major gains in Congress and the Senate, potentially making governing difficult for the winner.

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Could Russia’s deadly plague lab incident spark another pandemic?Health

A suspected pneumonic plague death in Russia’s Far East has raised questions about the risks posed by one of the world’s oldest and most feared infectious diseases. DW examines how serious the situation is, how pneumonic plague spreads and what health officials know so far, with insights from Dr. Amesh Adalja.

DDW News
Gutfeld: Trump doxes his friends…Politics

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the Gutfeld panel discuss President Donald Trump publicly calling out Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., over their disagreement about Daylight Saving Time.

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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas Full Episode — Oct. 5Other20:42

NBC reports growing outrage at Cornell over disciplinary action involving seven men accused in sexual assault allegations. A horrific school bus crash in Florida killed two people, including a high school student, with more than 30 students aboard. U.S. officials are also monitoring Russia after a woman linked to a plague research lab died last week.

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Alberta separatists remain in close contact with US officials ahead of referendumPolitics

Albertans are preparing to vote on whether the province should begin the legal process for a future binding referendum on leaving Canada. An Ipsos poll conducted about a month before the non-binding vote found that 70% would choose to remain part of Canada. Meanwhile, some separatists have met with US officials, amid conflicting claims about what was discussed.

GGlobal News
Turley: This is VERY difficultPolitics

Constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley discusses on 'America Reports' New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to assign state Attorney General Letitia James to lead the investigation into Cornell University.

FFox News
All Access with Linsey Davis: Malcolm GladwellSociety

Linsey Davis speaks with bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell about common misconceptions surrounding gun control in the United States and the little-known origins of the Second Amendment.

AABC News
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: Full Broadcast, Oct. 5World

The broadcast reports on newly obtained calls between Jane Doe and Cornell fraternity members she accused of rape three weeks after the alleged assault, as campus outrage grows. It also examines the suspected pneumonic-plague death of a Russian lab worker linked to a Siberian research facility and the quarantines prompted by the mystery illness, along with a new threat that prompted Pentagon action.

AABC News
Taiwan envoy accuses Chinese Communist Party of ‘stealing wartime credit’Politics

Taiwan’s representative to the United States, Yu Da-lei, said the Chinese Communist Party was manipulating history and trying to claim the narrative around the World War II Flying Tigers after they were mentioned at the Trump-Xi meeting. He stressed that the Republic of China, not the CCP, fought alongside the United States against Japan, and noted that the CCP later fought U.S. forces in the Korean War.

VVOA Chinese
Russia plague lab death ‘doesn’t add up’: What doctors know so farHealth13:48

A 28-year-old laboratory researcher at Russia’s Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute died from pneumonia of an “unknown” origin. Several others are quarantined in Siberia. Rospotrebnadzor has played down a connection between her death and her work, but the case has raised questions about the form of plague that causes pneumonia.

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Global National: Oct. 5, 2026 | Five parties vie for power in Quebec electionPolitics

Quebecers are voting in a consequential provincial election in which five parties could win seats in the legislature. The separatist Parti Québécois appears set to take the most seats, even though most Quebecers oppose another referendum. In Alberta, separatists are preparing for a vote on whether to begin the legal process for a binding referendum on leaving Canada.

GGlobal News
Nobel Prize awarded for revealing the brain’s inner workingsScience3:07

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics. Their research has helped scientists better understand how the brain works and how the human mind functions.

BBBC News
Flavio Bolsonaro and Lula head to Brazil election run-offPolitics

Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, analyses the first-round results of Brazil’s election. Flavio Bolsonaro and Lula will face each other in a run-off.

TTRT World
Yemeni government says its forces control MokhaWorld

The Yemeni government says its forces are in control of Mokha. Political and conflict analyst Hisham Al-Omeisy examines the latest developments in Yemen.

TTRT World
French high school protests over school conditions spread nationwideSociety

French high school students returned to the barricades this week as protests over school conditions spread nationwide and unsettled President Emmanuel Macron’s government. Teachers and students mobilized at a lycée in Créteil, southeast of Paris, against staff shortages.

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