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Citizen Digital

Search underway for two trapped after gold mine collapses in Migori

The two are said to have been sleeping when a mine collapsed on Thursday night, burying the house where they were under debris and sand.Area residents say that some of the mines had shown signs of collapse, prompting some of them to clear the area.A search and rescue operation for two people trapped in a collapsed gold mine is underway at the Masara mines in Migori County, reviving safety concerns for artisanal miners.The two are said to have been sleeping when a mine collapsed on Thursday night, burying the house where they were under debris and sand.Area residents say that some of the mines had shown signs of collapse, prompting some of them to clear the area.More than 12 hours after a gold mine collapsed in the Osiri Matanda area in Migori, an excavator was pulling out debris as part of a search and rescue mission for two people who were reported missing on Thursday night.Eyewitnesses say the mines around the area had cracks in some of the shafts, and they caved in in the dead of night, burying houses and makeshift hotels around the area.“There were two ladies sleeping in a room there where that thing collapsed. I heard there were 3, but one got away. We even found her later in the morning, and we spoke to her,” said Matanda Artisanal Miners Chairman David Sewe.Miner Everlyne Otieno added, “Hapo awali kulikuwa na mporomoko wa udongo hapa. Wengine walihama, wengine wakapuuza...

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Google News — Business

Bitcoin ETFs Flipped From $5.8 Billion in Outflows to $800 Million in Inflows. Is Now the Time to Buy Bitcoin?

Bitcoin ETFs Flipped From $5.8 Billion in Outflows to $800 Million in Inflows. Is Now the Time to Buy Bitcoin? fool.comBitcoin ETFs have erased a $5.8 billion hole CoinDeskVinhtocdo(@HuynhChanVinh)'s insights BinanceBlackRock snags 1.97K BTC as inflows hit 6 days: Why Bitcoin’s $87K remains out of reach AMBCryptoCrypto ETF Flow Tracker [QuantAlgo]: indicador de QuantAlgo TradingView

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The National

Iran offers uranium compromise as part of plan to break US deadlock, sources say

Iran has proposed transferring its stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent to a third party as part of its latest plan to break the diplomatic deadlock with the US, sources familiar with Tehran's position told The National.On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that his country conveyed to the US through Qatar a concrete seven-day plan aimed at resolving the stand-off over the Strait of Hormuz, with the waterway expected to reopen on the sixth day if the agreed steps are implemented.The seven-day timetable would begin as soon as Washington accepts the plan, he said at the UN. “If the necessary conditions are met, the strait could be reopened," adding that “the choice now is with the US”.The proposal, one source said, envisages a phased process in which the stockpile would first be diluted before being transferred out of Iran under mechanisms recognised by the International Atomic Energy Agency.The third-party transfer goes beyond Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's public comments this week that Tehran was prepared to dilute its 60 per cent enriched uranium and submit the process to verification.The mechanism revives and expands an idea discussed during earlier negotiations mediated by Oman and, the source said, shortly before the war began on February 28.The offer forms part of a broader Iranian road map presented to Washington in New York that seeks to...

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Google News — Business

Smart Ring Maker Oura’s IPO Is About Four Times Oversubscribed

Smart Ring Maker Oura’s IPO Is About Four Times Oversubscribed Bloomberg.comSmart ring maker Oura eyes $15.6 billion IPO valuation in fall listings demand test ReutersNew York sues Polymarket, says it ran illegal gambling operation By Reuters Investing.comOura’s IPO Puts AI-Powered Healthcare on the Ticker PYMNTS.comOura Competitors: Samsung, Apple and the Smart Ring Market HackerNoon

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Citizen Digital

English, Spanish, Italian, German football leagues call for FIFA reform

The four leagues put a call out for candidates for the FIFA presidency who will endorse their principles "within the first 100 days of the next presidential mandate". This combination of files pictures created on December 21, 2023 shows the UEFA logo (top) at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon on December 15, 2014 and the FIFA logo (bottom) at the FIFA Executive Football Summit in Istanbul on February 15, 2019. European football's governing body UEFA said they would maintain their boycott of the men's and women's World Cups on August 6, 2026 despite FIFA withdrawing the plan to open up their competitions to private investment.The four main European football leagues - the English Premier League, Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A and Germany's Bundesliga - called on Friday for a reform of FIFA.The sport's governing body has been mired in crisis since the revelation of a plan, since shelved, to create a commercial company FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), which would be open to private investors."Fundamental governance reform is essential to restore clear constitutional boundaries within FIFA, including confidence that individual disciplinary matters remain demonstrably insulated from political interference," the four leagues wrote in a statement sent to AFP."We are speaking up together, as founding members of European Leagues and the World Leagues Association, because we understand how FI...

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Google News — Business

Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall

Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall The RegisterIndiana nabs $175M from feds to fix regional electricity ‘choke point’ Indiana Capital ChronicleDeWine announces $273M federal grant for Ohio energy yahoo.comSpeed to Power: Stakeholder Input and DOE Actions Department of Energy (.gov)Trump's Energy Department is spending $2 billion to squeeze more power from the aging U.S. grid qz.com

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Al Jazeera

How Israel’s ‘Blue Line’ team seizes Palestinian land in the West Bank

Little-known Israeli mapping team is redrawing land boundaries as Palestinians face growing illegal settlement expansion.Al-Mughayyir, occupied West Bank – As the October olive harvest approaches, Bilal Abu Alia stands near his home, gazing at his family’s land – territory he says Israeli authorities have taken from his family in the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.Of their original 0.4sq km (100 acres) of land, Bilal explains that his family can now only access a small area that includes their home and a few olive trees.Land confiscation in the occupied West Bank doesn’t always begin with a direct seizure. In many instances, the process starts with the redesignation and demarcation of land on official Israeli maps, with the Israeli Civil Administration’s “Blue Line Team” playing an important role.According to a report published in mid-September by the National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements, a body affiliated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Blue Line team was officially established in 1999. Its primary role is to identify and formally designate areas that Israeli authorities classify as “state land”.Comprising surveyors, cartographers and legal experts, the team uses modern surveying technology and geographic information systems to review and redraw those boundaries on official maps, according to the bureau.The significance of the process is that land included within the boundaries Israel recognises as “state land” can subsequently be allocated for settlement projects, which are illegal under international law.Israel’s Civil Administration has argued that Blue Line revisions are technical corrections of historic surveying errors. But the United Nations has said that the revisions have essentially expanded the boundaries of land classified by Israel as state property.The bureau report argues that, in recent years, the Blue Line team has evolved from a technical mechanism for boundary demarcation into a tool increasingly used to accelerate settlement expansion and legitimise settlement outposts.The team recently re-demarcated areas in the northern and central West Bank totalling almost 0.2sq km (49 acres) that were reclassified from “state land” to land designated for settlement activity, according to the office. That included land that belonged to the Palestinian villages of Jalud, Qaryut, Turmusayya and al-Mughayyir.Al Jazeera has reached out to Israeli authorities for comment, but has yet to receive a response.In August 2025, an Israeli settler was shot while encroaching on Palestinian land in al-Mughayyir. Israeli forces subsequently launched a four-day operation in the village, during which bulldozers uprooted thousands of olive trees across much of the village, including the land later taken from Bilal’s family.“We were informed that we were barred from accessing this land, that it had become a military zone and then state land. We watched as the olive trees planted by my great-grandfather a century ago were bulldozed and uprooted right before our eyes, yet we were powerless to stop it,” Bilal told Al Jazeera.Israel informed the family that the land had become a closed military zone, off-limits to both Palestinians and settlers. However, shortly after, Bilal noticed a settler plowing the land. After the family lodged a complaint with the military liaison office, the settler stopped ploughing for a few days but soon resumed under the protection of the Israeli army.“Furthermore, in December 2025, months after the olive trees were uprooted, we attempted to gather the debris to at least salvage the wood,” he added. “We discovered that the land was under camera surveillance; my father, my elderly uncle and I were arrested and held for three days handcuffed, blindfolded and left lying on the cold ground at an army camp.”The land was once a source of livelihood for Bilal’s extended family, but the family says it can no longer farm it. Meanwhile, settlers continue to enter and use land in the area surrounding their home.The family attempted to file an objection against the confiscation of their land, but Bilal said he was only given three days to file an objection, leaving them no real opportunity to act, while bulldozers had already begun work on the site.The implications of the Blue Line team’s work go far beyond merely altering colours or boundaries on a map: A reclassification of land to state property can effectively open it up to construction projects or illegal settlement expansion.In the case of al-Mughayyir, this occurs within the context of broader settlement expansion that, according to the National Bureau, encircles the village and restricts residents’s ability to access and utilise their land.This mechanism suggests that land seizure often unfolds in stages: The land is first surveyed and boundaries redrawn before being designated ‘state land’ and then designated for settlement expansion.In the northern West Bank, the measures add to the continued expansion of Israeli settlements around Jenin. For example, the bureau points to military seizure orders affecting land around Qabatiya, near Jenin.

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The National

UAE and Lebanon launch AI training initiative

The UAE and Lebanon on Friday launched an initiative to train one million Lebanese in AI, as the two countries moved to deepen co-operation in technology and digital skills.The “One Million Lebanese AI Experts” initiative was announced during a meeting between Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.The initiative, launched under the UAE’s Government Experience Exchange Programme in co-operation with the Lebanese government, will provide training in generative artificial intelligence and prompt engineering.عبدالله بن زايد يلتقي دولة الدكتور نواف سلام رئيس الحكومة في الجمهورية اللبنانية الشقيقة في نيويورك .. وتم خلال اللقاء إطلاق مبادرة "مليون خبير لبناني في الذكاء الاصطناعي" ضمن مبادرات برنامج الإمارات للتبادل المعرفي الحكومي. 🇱🇧🇦🇪 pic.twitter.com/U42fR4YBCp— OFM (@OFMUAE) September 24, 2026It also aims to equip one million people in Lebanon with practical skills to use AI tools in their work and daily lives, including how to formulate instructions and guide applications to produce more accurate and effective results.The announcement came the same day Mr Salam addressed the General Assembly, where he said the AI revolution is opening unprecedented horizons for progress across every sphere of life. “Yet it also raises challenges for the fu...

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Google News — Sports

NBA Fantasy: Expectations for top rookies

NBA Fantasy: Expectations for top rookies NBA.comNBA 2026: Young Stars Shaping the Next Generation of Basketball sportco.ioWhere AJ Dybantsa ranked in ESPN’s list of the top 100 NBA players Yahoo SportsNBA Draft: Predicting Next Season’s All-Rookie Teams Sports IllustratedAJ Dybantsa leads four rookies in ESPN’s top 100 NBA player rankings sportingnews.com

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Google News — Entertainment

How Zendaya felt when her stylist, Law Roach, revealed she secretly got married

How Zendaya felt when her stylist, Law Roach, revealed she secretly got married HOLALaw Roach Finally Describes Zendaya's Wedding Dress in Just Three Words — and It's the Ultimate Mic Drop graziamagazine.comLaw Roach Says He Lies About Zendaya’s Personal Life for This Reason instyle.comLaw Roach Was Asked If Zendaya Was Annoyed That He “Spilled The Tea” About Her Secret Wedding, And This Insight Into Their Personal Relationship Is Fascinating BuzzFeedLaw Roach Reveals How Zendaya Reacted to Him Spilling Her Wedding News yahoo.com

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The National

Any attack on Makkah or Madinah is a ‘red line’, says Pakistan’s PM

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told the UN General Assembly on Friday that any attack on the holy cities of Makkah or Madinah would represent a “red line”.Saudi Arabia’s air defences destroyed a Houthi drone south of Makkah before it entered prohibited airspace over the city last week.Mr Sharif said any “threat to the safety and sanctity of the Haramain Sharifain”, the two most sacred mosques in Islam, “is a red line that must never be crossed”.“No Muslim can even dare to think of committing such a heinous crime,” he said.Pakistan last month signed a joint defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The deal, which has not yet been fully ratified, commits to the collective security of Riyadh, Ankara and Islamabad.Saudi Arabia has similarly declared Makkah off-limits to any aggression.On Thursday, Saudi state media reported that an urgent meeting is being arranged for the chiefs of staff of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey. The meeting will "explore ways to support Saudi Arabia” under the Makkah Defence Agreement, which stipulates that an attack on one party constitutes an attack on all of them.The Houthis have intensified attacks on Saudi Arabia amid a wider escalation involving Iran-aligned armed groups in the Middle East.

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