# NuseReal
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French President Emmanuel Macron faces increased pressure to resign after the collapse of his latest government: two of his former prime ministers sharply distancing themselves from him (LINK) 7 October 2025
— Macron's stunning decision in June 2024 to dissolve parliament's powerful lower house was the root of the current crisis
Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for work in quantum mechanics (LINK) 7 October 2025
Al Jazeera: Day one of Israel and Hamas indirect talks ends on 'positive' note in Egypt (LINK) 7 October 2025
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina appoints army general as PM: protesters have rejected the appointment and have demanded the president step down within 48 hours (LINK) 7 October 2025
— BBC: The protests began on 25 September, triggered by public anger over repeated water and power cuts and have since morphed into wider dissatisfaction over corruption, high unemployment and the cost-of-living crisis. The protest movement is known as Gen Z Mada.
UNHCR cuts close to 5,000 jobs amid funding shortfall (LINK) 6 October 2025
EU nears decision on using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine as divisions persist on new sanctions (LINK) 6 October 2025
Ukraine says Swiss components found in Russian drones (LINK) 6 October 2025
Trump ends Venezuela talks, military options loom, new report (LINK) 6 October 2025
Israel deports Greta Thunberg and 170 other Gaza flotilla activists (LINK) 6 October 2025
— "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment, trust me, but that is not the story," she said.
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Shutdown costing US economy about $15B a week, about a tenth of a percent of GDP: National Economic Council Director Hassett (LINK) 6 October 2025
Trump ends Venezuela talks, military options loom, new report (LINK) 6 October 2025
Trump said he "will have to take a look at" a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell after the US Supreme Court rejected her appeal: "Haven't heard the name in so long" (LINK) 6 October 2025
ACLU lawsuit says ICE is unlawfully punishing immigrants at a notorious Louisiana detention center (LINK) 6 October 2025
Amid Trump's threat of shutdown layoffs, more federal employees being brought back to work (LINK) 7 October 2025
— The General Services Administration on Monday brought hundreds of employees back to work to manage its governmentwide real estate portfolio, after rescinding reduction-in-force notices they had delivered months ago. Monday afternoon, the Senate, for a fifth time, failed to pass stopgap funding bills introduced by both Democrats and Republicans.
Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to immune system researchers (LINK) 6 October 2025
AP: Trump says the US has secured $17 trillion in new investments. The real number is likely much less (LINK) 6 October 2025
— The White House website lists total investments at $8.8 trillion, though that figure appears to be padded with some investment commitments made during Joe Biden's presidency.
Supreme Court declines to hear Laura Loomer lawsuit against social media companies for taking her off their platforms (LINK) 6 October 2025
Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500,000 cars (LINK) 6 October 2025
Oil rises 1% after lower-than-expected OPEC+ output hike (LINK) 6 October 2025
OPEC+ to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day in November (LINK) 5 October 2025
8 fascinating foreign words with no English equivalent (LINK) 6 October 2025
Matt Groening finally reveals the original inspiration for Homer Simpson: a Muncie, Indiana, pizza producer (LINK) 6 October 2025
TikTok star Aurélien Fontenoy cycles up Eiffel Tower in world record time: 686 steps in 12 minutes and 30 seconds, smashing the previous record set by Hugues Richard in 2002 by nearly seven minutes (LINK) 5 October 2025
UNAIDS exhibits posters in Geneva throughout September to dispel myths and misconceptions about HIV (LINK) 2 September 2025
Exposing environmental crimes: online training for journalists and communication professionals: Geneva, 29 September 2025 - 1 October 2025 (half-day sessions: 8:00–11:30 a.m. — (LINK)
— The course will address the growing threat of disinformation in environmental reporting and offer strategies to identify and counter false or misleading narratives.
Towards the Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-6), Geneva, 3-7 November 2025 (LINK) 25 August 2025
— As part of the preparation for the meeting, online events will take place from 13 to 17 October 2025.
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