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Unnerved Panamanians sleep in streets as aftershocks rattle quake-hit towns
Oct 10, 2026 - World 
Unnerved residents of rural Panama awoke Saturday on the streets as the aftershocks of two powerful earthquakes that roiled the country shook their communities for hours.
Obsessed Trump posts new Saturday morning rant about not getting Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 10, 2026 - World 
Donald Trump still can’t let the Nobel go.On Saturday morning, a few hours after a late-night Truth Social rant about losing the Peace Prize, the president posted about it again. This time he misspelled it.“I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country,” Trump wrote at 8:04 a.m. Eastern.He added that he had stopped Iran “from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon — AND MUCH MORE!”“Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!”His first post went up Friday at 11:39 p.m. Eastern. That one ran nearly 600 words, called the committee’s choice “an indelible stain on Norway,” and dismissed the winner, former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay, as someone “who nobody has ever heard of.”He’s getting little sympathy. CNN reported Friday that Trump’s quest for the prize “is now the butt of the joke.”The Nobel committee praised Pillay “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” Last month, Trump urged countries to quit the ICC.
Candidate named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru
Oct 10, 2026 - World 
Leftwing Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores beats far-right candidate in election in remote district of AndesA businessman called Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected the mayor of a remote district in the Peruvian Andes, according to local election data.The 45-year-old, who shares two of his names with the notorious European dictators, won the race for mayor of Queropalca, in Peru’s central Huánuco region, and will take office on 1 January. Continue reading...
Republican senator stands up to Trump on diesel plan: 'We need to cut off everything'
Oct 10, 2026 - World 
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is breaking with Donald Trump over his new diesel deal with Vladimir Putin. She says he’s ignoring the tools Congress just handed him.“A few weeks ago, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation to increase sanctions and tariffs on Russia,” Murkowski wrote on X late Friday. “The President should be using those authorities instead of allowing Russia to export diesel, rake in revenues, and continue its catastrophic war in Ukraine.”“We can discuss Russia’s return to global energy markets once the war is over,” she added, “but in the meantime, we need to cut off everything fueling it.”Her post linked to an Associated Press report on the deal, headlined “Trump strikes deal with Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy.”The deal comes as diesel prices hit record highs in farm states during harvest season, the New York Times reported Friday. Fuel prices have climbed nationwide since Trump launched his war against Iran, and Republicans are scrambling to hold on to seats three weeks before the midterms.The plan has already run into trouble. Hours after the U.S. eased sanctions on Russian fuel exports, Ukrainian drones hit a major oil export terminal in Rostov-on-Don and set it on fire, Al Jazeera reported.It wasn’t Murkowski’s only break with the administration this week. She also criticized the Pentagon’s decision to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.“I would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America,” she wrote.A few weeks ago, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation to increase sanctions and tariffs on Russia. The President should be using those authorities instead of allowing Russia to export diesel, rake in revenues, and continue its catastrophic war in Ukraine. We can discuss Russia’s return to global energy markets once the war is over, but in the meantime, we need to cut off everything fueling it.https://t.co/KPkEoDy1Np— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) October 10, 2026
Trump's plan to salvage midterms with Russia's help literally explodes into flames
Oct 10, 2026 - World 
A few hours after Donald Trump eased sanctions on Russian diesel, Ukraine set a major Russian fuel export terminal on fire.Ukrainian drones hit the NZNP Rostovsky oil export terminal in Rostov-on-Don overnight, “setting the facility ablaze just hours after the U.S. eased sanctions on Russian fuel exports,” according to the markets account First Squawk. Al Jazeera also reported the strike came hours after what it called a “Trump-Putin diesel deal.”The Hormuz Letter, an X account that covers oil markets, posted video of the fire lighting up the night sky.“This is a products export terminal, exactly where the diesel would leave Russia under the deal,” the account wrote.It also said Ukrainian military sources had warned earlier in the day that the Trump administration’s effort to use Russian diesel to bring down U.S. prices before the midterms “will bear no fruit.”The deal comes as Republicans struggle to contain voter anger over fuel costs three weeks before Election Day. The New York Times reported on Friday that record diesel prices are hitting farm states just as harvest season starts. Fuel prices have soared nationwide since Trump launched his war against Iran, the Times reported, and Republicans are now “triaging the map” as their internal polling gets worse.Trump’s turn to Moscow for relief puts the United States on the opposite side of Ukraine’s long campaign against Russia’s energy infrastructure. Kyiv has spent the past year striking refineries and export terminals to choke off the oil money that funds Moscow’s war.MAGA pundit Brian Glenn said early Saturday, "Trump strikes a diesel deal with Russia. (To help soaring fuel prices, a good thing) Ukraine then bombs terminal to which the diesel would flow from. There you go."
