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Famous 2,800-year-old burial in Italy contains the cremated remains of at least three humans. It was previously thought only one young human had been buried in the tomb . The ancient tomb, uncovered back in 1954, is known for containing Nestor's Cup. The cup has one of the earliest known examples of writing in the Greek alphabet.

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Pope Francis will not travel to Scotland for the UN's climate conference, the Vatican has confirmed. The 84-year-old has previously said he hoped to attend COP26 in Glasgow next month but it would depend on "how I feel at the time". He has recently undergone colon surgery in Rome.

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A blast has tore through a mosque in Afghanistan’s northeastern city of Kunduz during Friday prayers, causing multiple deaths, according to the Taliban. A health official told AFP news agency the blast left 15 people dead and dozens others wounded. Meanwhile, a Taliban official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters news agency that at least 28 people had been killed in the explosion and dozens more wounded.

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Russia is ready to protect its ally Tajikistan in the event of any incursions from neighbouring Afghanistan, a senior diplomat was quoted on Friday as saying, amid Russian media reports of a militant Tajik group preparing a cross-border attack. Tajiks are the second largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and make up a majority of the population in some northern areas close to the border with Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic.

Source: reuters.com

A US nuclear submarine hit an "unknown object" while submerged in waters in the Asia-Pacific region, injuring a number of sailors, US officials say. It was not clear what caused the incident on Saturday, they said. The submarine remained "fully operational". Unnamed officials told US media the collision happened in international waters in the South China Sea, and that 11 sailors had been injured.

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The US has been secretly maintaining a small contingent of military trainers in Taiwan for at least a year, according to a new report, the latest sign of the rising stakes in US-China rivalry. About two dozen US special forces soldiers and an unspecified number of marines are now training Taiwanese forces, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The trainers were first sent to Taiwan by the Trump administration but their presence had not been reported until now.

Source: theguardian.com

Theo Hernandez put France in the Nations League final on Thursday with a last-gasp strike which earned Les Bleus a thrilling 3-2 win over Belgium.

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Alexandrina Denysenko, a senior flight attendant with seven years of experience, says she sometimes does not get a spare minute to sit down during a flight and dreams of resting her swollen legs after spending hours wearing heels. SkyUp Airlines, the privately-owned Ukrainian carrier that employs Denysenko, decided to put an end to heels and pencil skirts after collecting feedback from flight attendants about their uniform. The new SkyUp uniform for women now includes white Nike sneakers and a loose orange suit with trousers and a silk scarf, both made by Ukrainian brands. White T-shirts will replace blouses.

Source: reuters.com

A pair of rare diamond and emerald spectacles from an unknown Indian princely treasury will be sold at an auction in London later this month. The lenses were placed in the Mughal-era frames around 1890, according to auction house Sotheby's. The spectacles will be offered at auction for £1.5m-2.5m ($2m-$3.4m) each, the auction house said. Ahead of the sale, they will be exhibited in October for the first time in Hong Kong and London.

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Russia will invite representatives of the Taliban to international talks on Afghanistan that it plans to host in Moscow on October 20, President Vladimir Putin’s special representative on Afghanistan has said. Zamir Kabulov, the representative, did not provide further details on the planned conference in comments carried by Russian news agencies on Thursday.

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Dozens of people had to be rescued Wednesday night in central Alabama, where the National Weather Service said as much as 33 centimeters of rain fell, and a south Alabama town temporarily lost its main grocery store when a creek came through the doors of the Piggly Wiggly. Near the coast, heavy rains caused sewage to bubble out of underground pipes. Metro Birmingham remained under a flash flood watch, and meteorologists predicted another wet day for most of Alabama and parts of Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.

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Daniel Craig finally got a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Wednesday (Oct 6), days before his last movie as James Bond opens in the United States. No Time To Die marks Craig's fifth and final outing as the suave British secret agent, ending a role that has spanned 15 years.

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Murray, preparing to play at Indian Wells for the first time since 2017, explained how he had left his shoes overnight under the car his team are using while in California to try and dry them out after a hard day's practice. When he went to get them the next morning, they were gone. "Not the end of the world", he thought, as he went to buy some more. But the fact that he ties his wedding ring to his laces while training and playing had completely slipped his mind.

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Desmond Tutu, South Africa's anti-apartheid icon, Nobel peace laureate and a man dubbed the "moral compass of the nation," marked his 90th birthday Thursday with a rare public appearance. The jovial Tutu, who even today speaks out against injustice, attended a special thanksgiving service at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, where he was appointed South Africa's first black Anglican archbishop.

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Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday. Gurnah, whose novels include "Paradise" and "Desertion", writes in English and lives in Britain. The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14 million).

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An elephant park in Bali left more than a dozen elephants to starve, and staff without pay after plummeting ticket sales forced it to close when COVID-19 spread around the world and borders were closed. Bali Elephant Camp (BEC) is a safari-style park, a half-hour drive north of Ubud, the Indonesian island’s cultural capital, that offered a range of nature-based activities like bike-riding through rice fields, and white-water rafting.

Source: aljazeera.com

New 'cryogenic diamond' that changes colour when it is cold has been found. It was discovered by Stephanie Persaud at the Gemological Institute of America. Similar to chameleon diamonds which change colour if heated or kept in dark. But this one changes from grey to yellow when it is chilled to -320°F (-196°C).

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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions in the nation's second-most populous state. The order by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood a wave of early challenges. In the weeks since the restrictions took effect, Texas abortion providers say the impact has been “exactly what we feared.”

Source: france24.com