After Gaza deal, will Donald Trump get his Nobel Peace Prize?
• Oct 9, 2025, 11:44 AM
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PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, October 9, 2025: The Norwegian press remain sceptical about Donald Trump's hopes of being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, despite him having helped broker a tentative peace deal between Hamas and Israel. Also: there's outrage in India over the death of several children after ingesting a cough syrup containing a poisonous component. Plus: scientists hope a sawflies' ability to cut into a plant to lay eggs could revolutionise modern surgery.
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The Palestine Branch: A den of torture in Assad’s Syria
• 4:00 AM
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Branch 235, also known as the Palestine Branch, was one of the most notorious prisons run by the Syrian military intelligence services during the Assad era. Located on the outskirts of Damascus, its name, “Far Falastin", in Arabic, was enough to send shi
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Rape and torture in Assad's prisons: Syrian women break their silence
• 4:00 AM
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During the brutal 13-year Syrian civil war, Bashar al-Assad's regime imprisoned women for their real or presumed links to the “terrorist” opposition. Many endured rape, sexual violence, and torture during their incarceration. Here are the testimonies of
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Russia launches missile and drone attack on Kyiv, targeting power grid
• 2:16 AM
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Ukraine reported a large-scale Russian assault on Kyiv early Friday, involving ballistic missiles and drone strikes that caused widespread power outages and injured at least nine people. The attack, which targeted critical infrastructure, is part of what
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New York attorney general who led Trump fraud case criminally indicted
• 12:51 AM
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New York Attorney General Letitia James — who led the civil fraud case that won a nearly half-billion-dollar judgment against Donald Trump — was indicted Thursday on federal bank fraud charges, becoming the second high-profile Trump critic to face prosec
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Gang violence erupts as Haitian cabinet meets in Port-au-Prince
• 12:28 AM
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Gang violence broke out near Haiti’s National Palace on Thursday as the country’s fragile interim government convened a rare cabinet meeting in the heart of gang-controlled Port-au-Prince. The high-stakes gathering, described by officials as a symbolic a
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