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A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.
South Korea’s central bank kept its policy rate at 3% on Oct. 22, pausing after increases in July and August.
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251 stories in this desk.A regional workshop in Abuja reviewed the financial model for a fund intended to support water security, ecosystem protection and climate-resilient livelihoods across nine countries.
Kristalina Georgieva urged governments to address heavy debt, inequality and financial-stability risks before next week’s IMF–World Bank meetings.
Bank Indonesia says September reserves remained well above the international adequacy benchmark despite debt repayments and rupiah-stabilization operations.
The delegation finished the Aichi–Nagoya Games with 11 gold, 19 silver and 24 bronze medals, setting records for both golds and total medals.
Federal and state officials, civil society and development partners met in Maiduguri to align Nigeria’s implementation of the 2026–2035 Kampala agriculture agenda.
A proposed rule change would exempt electronic health-record systems, patient portals and related services from Texas sales tax after a public-comment period.
The World Bank says strong domestic demand is helping South Asia withstand global shocks, while energy, weather and financial-market risks remain.
Bulgaria says aerial and maritime drones struck two commercial vessels in its Black Sea economic zone, sinking one and setting the other on fire.
Brazil’s election authority says Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro will meet in a presidential runoff after neither won a first-round majority.
The Nigerian Air Force says all 25 people aboard an ATR-42 died after the aircraft crashed in Ondo State, revising an earlier government count.
Daily card payments averaged about 3.8 trillion won in the first half of 2026, with mobile and other cardless transactions continuing to gain ground.
The Texas Education Agency says districts using its state-developed curriculum posted stronger average year-over-year changes, while cautioning that the first release is descriptive.
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