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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-09-02 · Arab News: The World Food Programme reports that an airstrike hit two UN food aid trucks in Dilling, South Kordofan, Sudan, over the weekend, destroying emergency supplies. A perspective from San Francisco.
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-09-06 · Reuters: U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner make their first visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, to meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks amidst renewed efforts to end the war. A perspective from Chicago.
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-16 · BBC News: Ukrainian forces launch 822 drones at Russia, including over 600 towards Moscow, killing at least seven people and injuring 39 others. A Wildberries warehouse is also destroyed. Russian officials say it is the largest Ukrainian drone attack launched this year. A perspective from Vancouver.
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-31 · Reuters: Kosovo's Vetëvendosje and Democratic League parties agree to support former Constitutional Court judge Bekim Sejdiu for president, potentially ending nearly two years of political deadlock and enabling the formation of a new government. A perspective from Lisbon.
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-20 · Knysna-Plett Herald: Two ANC members including a former Knysna councillor are shot dead, one day after a sitting Knysna councillor is shot dead in a suspected internal ANC faction fight in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa. A perspective from Lisbon.
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-08-28 · AP: Emergency Lawyers, an independent group documenting atrocities in Sudan, reports that eight civilians have been killed in drone strikes in the Sowdari District of North Kordofan. A perspective from Dublin.
Emily Armstrong · Solar Voyager ·
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-09-03 · ISW: Russian forces say they have captured several settlements in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, encircling Ukrainian forces. A perspective from Reykjavík.
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A moment shaping the map: News pulse 2026-09-02 · Arab News: The World Food Programme reports that an airstrike hit two UN food aid trucks in Dilling, South Kordofan, Sudan, over the weekend, destroying emergency supplies. A perspective from Reykjavík.
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News pulse 2026-09-02 · AP: A crew member is killed, six others are missing, and one is rescued when a tugboat capsizes and sinks off the coast of Busan, South Korea.
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News pulse 2026-08-18 · The Philippine Star: A student is killed while nine other people are injured in a mass shooting at a junior secondary school building of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City, Philippines. The perpetrator, also a student, later kills himself.
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News pulse 2026-09-02 · Reuters: Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise, the only candidate, is elected by the Riigikogu as President of Estonia. She will be sworn into office on October 12, succeeding Alar Karis.
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News pulse 2026-08-19 · AP: The United States Department of the Treasury reports that the national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time the previous day, and is currently at $40.047 trillion.
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News pulse 2026-08-31 · Reuters: Kosovo's Vetëvendosje and Democratic League parties agree to support former Constitutional Court judge Bekim Sejdiu for president, potentially ending nearly two years of political deadlock and enabling the formation of a new government.
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News pulse 2026-09-01 · Philippine Daily Inquirer: Seven people are killed and 13 others are injured when a speeding passenger van, with an Ipil–Pagadian route, crashes into a motorcycle and a wing van in Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
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News pulse 2026-08-18 · The Philippine Star: A student is killed while nine other people are injured in a mass shooting at a junior secondary school building of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City, Philippines. The perpetrator, also a student, later kills himself.
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News pulse 2026-09-08 · Saba News Agency: The toll from yesterday's Saudi airstrike against a prison in Al-Jawf Governorate increases to 17 people killed and seven more wounded.
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News pulse 2026-09-02 · AP: A crew member is killed, six others are missing, and one is rescued when a tugboat capsizes and sinks off the coast of Busan, South Korea.
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News pulse 2026-09-12 · BBC News: French officials investigate if the derailment in Cléon, Seine-Maritime, was caused by sabotage after a fragment of rail was found on the tracks.
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News pulse 2026-08-27 · A News: The death toll from the earthquake that struck the Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, rises to 111, with 176,000 people displaced.
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News pulse 2026-08-22 · NBC News: A humanoid robot at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China, runs 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, surpassing a record set by Usain Bolt of 9.58 seconds at the World Athletics Championships in 2009.
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News pulse 2026-08-27 · The Guardian: U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order directing federal agencies to call Lake Ontario "Lake America." The change applies only to U.S. federal usage; Canada need not adopt it, and no international authority exclusively determines names of shared waters.
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News pulse 2026-08-24 · BBC News: U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessent announces Operation Economic Outcast, a campaign involving new sanctions against Iran, in an effort to isolate the regime.
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News pulse 2026-08-19 · The Business Standard: In a study from the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital & Institute, around 82% of children who died from measles during the outbreak in Bangladesh did not receive adequate or exclusive breastfeeding during their first 6 months of their life.
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News pulse 2026-09-01 · Reuters: A car bomb explodes outside a police station in Norte de Santander Department, Colombia, killing a person and wounding eleven more.
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