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Nima Rinji Sherpa waves upon his arrival at the airport in Kathmandu yesterday. – AFP Cheering crowds hailed an 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer as a hero as he returned home yesterday after breaking the record for the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks.Nima Rinji Sherpa reached …

NYC Columbus Day parade goers get saucy over new claim that explorer was Jewish, not Italian: ‘We don’t care’  New York Post DNA Reveals a Surprise Twist About Christopher Columbus  ScienceAlert Christopher Columbus is evil now — so suddenly he’s Jewish  The Times Columbus may have had Jewish heritage — that doesn’t mean …

Officials announce the Swedish Riksbank’s prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel 2024, which goes to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson, during a press meeting at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. – Reuters US-based academics Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson …

Italy dispatches first group of migrants to Albania, source says  Reuters Italy Sends Boat to Albania With Migrants Who Were Bound for Italian Shores  The New York Times Italy sends first asylum seekers to Albania under controversial pact  The Guardian Inside Italy’s answer to the Rwanda migrant scheme  The Telegraph No migrants from Germany …

The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like  CNN Rare deluge floods parts of the Sahara desert for the first time in decades  CBS News A rare rain in the Sahara Desert  Al Jazeera English Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the …

Israel-Gaza-Lebanon live updates: Israel kills 20 in strike on UN school, health ministry says  ABC News Israeli strike at Gaza’s al-Aqsa Hospital burns tents, killing at least 4  The Washington Post Tent Camp in Gaza Engulfed by Flames After Israeli Strike  The New York Times What’s Israel doing in north Gaza now?  Al Jazeera …

Novichok Inquiry: Vial had ‘enough poison to kill thousands’  BBC.com Putin ordered Novichok attack, double agent Skripal tells UK inquiry  Reuters UK UK believes Putin personally authorised Salisbury novichok attack, inquiry told  The Guardian Novichok inquiry: Who was Dawn Sturgess and how was she poisoned?  BBC.com Novichok in perfume bottle that killed Dawn Sturgess …

Nobel economics prize goes to 3 economists who found that freer societies are more likely to prosper  The Associated Press Three Receive Nobel in Economics for Research on Global Inequality  The New York Times MIT economists honored with Nobel Prize say their research into drivers of inequality was ‘a big risk,’ ‘a …

Ex-Stasi officer jailed for 1974 Berlin border killing  BBC.com 50 years later, German Stasi agent is convicted of murder, gets 10 years  The Washington Post Ex-Stasi officer convicted of murder, 50 years after Berlin shooting  Yahoo! Voices German court finds former Stasi officer guilty of murder  POLITICO Europe Former Stasi officer jailed for 10 …

Canada expels Indian diplomats as RCMP allege ties to violence, murder plot  POLITICO Canada Expels Indian Diplomats, Claiming They Were Part of a Criminal Network  The New York Times Canada alleges much wider campaign by Modi government against Sikhs  The Washington Post Canada and India expel each other’s diplomats in escalating dispute over …