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Anne Carson Nobel: Literature Is Changing Shape

When Anne Carson learned that she had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, she was not in a library surrounded by old books or sitting at a desk. She was in Iceland, listening to the wind. The 76-year-old writer, caught completely off guard by the call from the Swedish Academy, summed up the moment with little ceremony: “I think they’re all crazy.” Perhaps it is a fitting way to begin talking about Carson. The Canadian writer has just received the world’s highest literary...

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✅🕒 Published on October 8, 2026 - 17:52

Politics

Kramatorsk Under Attack Exposes Russian Pressure In Donetsk

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The Russian attack that killed at least 33 people in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, October 8, struck a city that holds an important position in Ukraine’s defensive structure in the Donetsk region. Another 18 people were injured, according to local authorities.

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✅🕒 Published on October 8, 2026 - 17:11

Blogs

Messi Served The Ball. Ramon Wants To Serve Football

By Maria Raquel

Messi is gone. Not exactly from football, because that would be asking too much even from him, but from the Argentina national team. At 39, after 21 years wearing the Albiceleste shirt, the number 10 played his final match for Argentina.

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✅🕒 Published on October 8, 2026 - 11:41

Climate & Environment

When The Future Begins To Send Signals

By Maria Raquel

Curtis LaForche would understand. In Take Shelter, he begins having dreams and visions of storms that no one else seems able to see. He is not portrayed as an irresponsible or indifferent man. Quite the opposite: he is careful, hardworking and deeply concerned about his family. Still, he begins to question his own perception.

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✅🕒 Published on October 8, 2026 - 11:34

Trending

A Chemistry That Learned To Choose

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Two hands have the same fingers, the same bones, and essentially the same structure. Yet the left hand cannot simply be placed over the right and fit perfectly. One is the mirror image of the other. Some molecules have exactly the same characteristic. They contain the same atoms and the same bonds, but can exist in two different three-dimensional configurations. In chemistry, this property is known as chirality, a word derived from the Greek term for hand.

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✅🕒 Published on October 7, 2026 - 17:28

News

Spain Faces General Strike Amid Housing Crisis

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Spain’s two largest trade union confederations, UGT and CCOO, have called a 24-hour general strike in response to the country’s housing crisis, which has pushed up property and rental prices. It will be the first general strike in Spain in 14 years.

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✅🕒 Published on October 7, 2026 - 17:02

Politics

Three Years Later, Gaza Still Reshapes The Middle East

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The third anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel finds Gaza far from a stable political solution. Even after ceasefire agreements and reconstruction proposals, Israeli strikes continue, humanitarian aid remains insufficient, and the territory is still caught between military and political interests that have yet to agree on what comes after the war.

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✅🕒 Published on October 7, 2026 - 16:45

Justice & Rights

A Larger Europe Will Have To Prove Its Rights

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The European Union wants to welcome new countries while strengthening the rules that hold the bloc together. For people living in European cities and communities, however, the question is simpler: what will these decisions change for someone who needs a school, a hospital, public transportation or protection from the state?

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✅🕒 Published on October 7, 2026 - 14:32

Business & Finance

Bets Become A Global Business Under Pressure

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In some part of the world, someone is placing a bet right now. Somewhere else, a government is discussing how to restrict the market. And in a financial office, executives are calculating how much growth is worth pursuing in an industry where one regulatory change can reshape an entire operation.

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✅🕒 Published on October 6, 2026 - 14:20

Investigations

What Lies Behind Europes Wounded Childhood

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The figure seems simple until it is opened up. More than two in three young adults surveyed by the World Health Organization in the European Union, Iceland and Norway said they had experienced at least one adverse experience before the age of 18. The study surveyed 26,741 people aged 18 to 30 and examined nine types of adversity.

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✅🕒 Published on October 6, 2026 - 14:06