What to expect from Amazon’s big fall hardware event on Tuesday
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What to expect from Amazon’s big fall hardware event on Tuesday

Amazon is hosting its 2025 fall hardware event on Tuesday, September 30th, and it could be a packed show. The company’s invite has a few not-so-subtle hints about new Echos and a new Kindle. It will also be Amazon’s next big product event for Panos Panay, who joined Amazon in 2023 to head up its...

Hongkongers caught using suspicious qualifications for Canadian immigration
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Hongkongers caught using suspicious qualifications for Canadian immigration

Several Hongkongers applied for a Canadian immigration pathway using illegitimately obtained academic qualifications, including a candidate found to have finished a year’s worth of coursework in just two weekends, according to court papers. The cases came to light in documents from Canada’s Federal Court, which has rejected at least seven open work permit applicants from...

Palestine appoints new ambassador to North Korea, reviving longstanding ties
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Palestine appoints new ambassador to North Korea, reviving longstanding ties

Palestine’s new ambassador to North Korea has taken up his post in Pyongyang, heralding the resumption of a decades-long friendship as prospects for a return of Western nations to the DPRK remain bleak. In a press release published on Friday, the Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang confirmed that Omar al-Faqih is now serving as Palestine’s ambassador,...

Lynx’s Reeve suspended for Game 4 after blasting officiating
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Lynx’s Reeve suspended for Game 4 after blasting officiating

Sep 27, 2025, 04:48 PM ET Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve has been suspended one game due to her “conduct and comments” during and after her team’s loss to the Phoenix Mercury in Game 3 of their playoff series, the WNBA announced Saturday. Reeve will serve the suspension during Sunday’s Game 4 in Phoenix. Editor’s...

In Slovakia, our grassroots movement helped oust a neo-Nazi. We can do it again | Alexandra Bitušíková
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In Slovakia, our grassroots movement helped oust a neo-Nazi. We can do it again | Alexandra Bitušíková

Having grown up in Banská Bystrica in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, I vividly remember standing in the city’s historic square a few days after 17 November 1989, the start of the Velvet Revolution, holding candles in solidarity with the students protesting in Prague. Never would I have imagined that 35 years later, I would be speaking at...

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle legal case over misleading Prime subscriptions
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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle legal case over misleading Prime subscriptions

Published September 27, 2025 Amazon has agreed to make a one-off $2.5 billion payment to settle the U.S. court case in which the online retail giant was accused of deceiving tens of millions of consumers into subscribing to its Prime service. Shutterstock Under the agreement reached between Amazon and the U.S. consumer protection authority (FTC),...

India uses UN spotlight to call out developed nations on trade
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India uses UN spotlight to call out developed nations on trade

India accused developed nations of hypocrisy in global trade and their responses to global crises at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, a charge that followed faltering efforts to negotiate with Washington to remove tariffs tied to its purchases of Russian crude oil. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar used his speech in New York...

Jazz Chisholm Jr. leaves Yankees' game after being hit in arm
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Jazz Chisholm Jr. leaves Yankees’ game after being hit in arm

Sep 27, 2025, 03:28 PM ET NEW YORK — Jazz Chisholm Jr. of the New York Yankees was hit on the left forearm by a 96.8 mph pitch from Baltimore’s Grant Wolfram in the fifth inning Saturday and immediately left the game. Chisholm, in considerable pain, went directly to the dugout and was pinch run...

Blippo Plus review: the strangest game of the year
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Blippo Plus review: the strangest game of the year

It’s not quite October yet, and there are still plenty of video games set to be released before the end of the year. Even still, I’m pretty convinced that Blippo Plus will go down as the strangest release of 2025. Calling it a game might be a bit of a misnomer; it’s more of an...