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Welcome to Tuesday, where the death toll keeps rising in Lebanon after the deadliest Israeli attack since 2006, India reports its first mpox case, and Halloween comes early for New Zealand marine biologists. And for Die Zeit, Andrea Böhnke looks at the scientific research into whether babies born in the winter are generally bound to live healthier lives.
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Argentine daily El Ciudadano devotes its front page to President Javier Miliei’s visit to the U.S. where he rang the opening bell (very enthusiastically) at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday and met tech billionaire Elon Musk for the third time in six months. Milei will attend the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver a speech to global leaders.
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• Israel and Hezbollah launch new attacks after deadly day in Lebanon. Israel struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Iran-backed group attacked military facilities in northern Israel on Tuesday, increasing fears of a full-blown conflict after Lebanon suffered its deadliest day in decades. Israel's military said it hit dozens of Hezbollah targets overnight, a day after carrying out airstrikes against the armed group which Lebanese authorities said killed more than 550 people. Read more about the nature of Israel’s pagers in this piece from Daraj, translated into English by Worldcrunch.
• Biden to address UN General Assembly for the last time. U.S. President Joe Biden will look to defend his foreign policy legacy in a U.N. speech on Tuesday, still facing the challenges posed by Ukraine's effort to fight back the Russian invasion and a Middle East in crisis. With four months left in office, Biden steps up to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly with wars in both regions posing dilemmas likely to outlast his presidency.
• Iran president warns of wider regional war. Israel wants to drag the Middle East into a full-blown war by provoking Iran to join the nearly year-old conflict between Israel and Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran's president said, warning of its “irreversible” consequences. Masoud Pezeshkian, speaking to a group of journalists after his arrival in New York to attend the UN General Assembly, said: “We do not wish to be the cause of instability in the Middle East as its consequences would be irreversible.” Read this piece by London-based Persian-language media Kayhan-London, which finds Iran “scrambling for cover” since Israel’s well-coordinated attacks in Lebanon.
• China loosens lending rates to boost flagging economy. People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Pan Gongsheng announced plans to lower borrowing costs and allow banks to increase their lending. The move comes after disappointing data has increased expectations in recent months that the world's second largest economy will miss its own 5% growth target this year. Read about China’s fallen luxury sales in this piece by Chinese-language global digital media The Initium, translated and adapted by Worldcrunch.
• Suspect described Trump “assassination attempt” in pre-written note. A suspected gunman arrested near Donald Trump's golf-course wrote a note months earlier saying he intended to kill the former president. “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,” the note says. Prosecutors included the note in a court filing on Monday, and said they will charge 58-year-old Ryan Routh with the attempted assassination of a major political candidate.
• India confirms first mpox case in current outbreak. India has reported its first case of the new mpox strain, which had already triggered a public health emergency alert by the World Health Organization (WHO). Called clade 1b, the new variant is highly-transmissible and has been linked to the mpox outbreak in Africa. Meanwhile, the U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday the donation of 1 million pox vaccine doses and at least $500 million to African countries to support their response to the outbreak.
• Scientists in New Zealand discover a new species of “ghost shark.” The Wellington-based National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said on Tuesday that the Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish lives exclusively in the deep waters around Australia and New Zealand. Also known as “ghost sharks” or “chimeras,” spookfish are related to sharks and rays but are part of a group of fish whose skeletons are entirely made of cartilage.
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374 days
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub landed in Kazakhstan on Monday inside the Soyuz space capsule after spending a record-breaking 374 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Kononenko, 60, also set a new record for the longest cumulative time in space at 1,111 days in orbit across five trips. The cosmonauts were accompanied by NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson who was in the space station for six months. The absolute record for the longest unbroken time any human has spent in space is still held by Russia’s Valeri Polyakov, who spent 438 days on the Mir space station from 1994 to 1995.
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📰 IN OTHER NEWS
🇮🇷 Israel’s assault on Iran-backed Hezbollah is increasing fears in Tehran that the country could become the next targets of Israel’s ruthless campaign.
— KAYHAN-LONDON
🇺🇸 The U.S. doesn’t want a full-scale war to spread to Lebanon but it seems powerless to stop the escalation.
— FRANCE INTER
👶 Does our month of birth have an influence on our health? Increasing scientific evidence says yes, but there are multiple factors at play, from the weather to a mother’s diet.
— DIE ZEIT
📣 VERBATIM
“Our work begins at home.”
— Czech President Petr Pavel said on Monday the 56 actions of the “Pact for the Future,” which was officially adopted by the UN General Assembly, will only “become effective if we fully implement them.” The ambitious pact aims at tackling several challenges ranging from climate change and artificial intelligence to escalating conflicts and poverty. But some UN countries have denounced shortcomings, including an “incredible and persistent gap between ambitious solutions and international finance at hand,” as well as inequalities among member states that could impede the implementation of the agreement.
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