At least 68 people were killed when a high-speed Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo train near Urda in central Spain on Wednesday, and Transport Minister Óscar Puente said a control-centre decision to let the train resume at normal speed is at the centre of the investigation, according to the BBC, The Guardian and Euronews.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 613 drones flew toward the Moscow region between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, with 231 destroyed on approach to the city and most of the rest neutralized farther out, according to Reuters, via Al Jazeera, and Meduza.
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The Fed kept its target range at 3.75%-4% in a 10-2 vote, with two officials dissenting in favor of a 0.25-point hike.
Preliminary results show 99.3% of votes in favor.
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In its first dollar disclosure, Microsoft said Azure grew 48% from a year earlier in the July-September quarter, about 36% of total revenue of $92.3B.
Google says the model improves coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity.
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The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark federal funds rate in a range of 3.75% to 4% on Wednesday, with two of 12 voters dissenting in favor of a 0.25 percentage point increase.
U.S. mortgage applications rose 3.4% in the week ending Oct. 23 as the average 30-year fixed rate fell to 7.37% from 7.41%, its lowest in three weeks, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.
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Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, died Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield, California, at age 96, her family and the Dolores Huerta Foundation announced.
Four immigrant legal services groups sued the Department of Homeland Security and ICE in federal court in Boston on Wednesday, challenging a September policy that stopped disclosing the locations of detainees who have final orders of removal.
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U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan in Washington on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order barring the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Homeland Security from developing or airing a set of government-funded ads, granting a request from the Democratic National Committee.
The Defense Department estimated that the war with Iran had cost $47.1 billion as of Oct. 16, up about $3.5 billion from its previous estimate through Sept. 3, according to a document provided to Congress and reported by Stars and Stripes, CBS News and AP.
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A Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Palme d'Or-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi in absentia to five years and one month in prison and ordered his assets confiscated, his lawyer Mostafa Nili told the Iranian reformist outlet Emtedad, according to Variety and AP.
Buddy Marini, the new head of Amazon MGM Studios Japan, said Wednesday at the TIFFCOM content market in Tokyo that the company will double its investment in original Japanese content, including live-action films, series and anime, Deadline and Screen International reported.
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The FDA on Tuesday issued draft guidance laying out how sponsors can seek approval for gene-editing therapies tailored to each patient's genetic variant, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said.
Artiva Biotherapeutics said on Tuesday it is discontinuing development of AlloNK, an off-the-shelf natural killer cell therapy tested with rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, and will not start a planned Phase 3 trial.
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Villa Vie Residences has suspended operations of the MV Odyssey in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, saying monthly fuel costs per cabin have jumped from about $1,800 to an estimated $6,000 to $8,000 in parts of Asia.
Norwegian Air Shuttle reported third-quarter operating profit of NOK 2.7B, above the NOK 2.3B analysts expected, Reuters reported, while cutting planned first-quarter 2027 capacity by more than 5%.
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SK hynix said its third-quarter operating profit rose 632% from a year earlier to a record 83.33 trillion won, and South Korea's benchmark KOSPI index jumped 6.63% on Wednesday.
Hong Kong's goods exports rose 64.9% from a year earlier to HK$762.6 billion in September, driven by AI-related electronics, the Census and Statistics Department said on Wednesday.
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