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Yesterday — 9 October 2026NYT - World

Palestinian Authority Says Elections Are to Be Postponed

9 October 2026 at 14:58
The delay, outlined in a letter to France, comes as Fatah, the governing party, is suffering from deep internal rifts.

© Pool photo by Zain Jaafar

Hussein al-Sheikh, deputy to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah, West Bank, in February. He was said to have sent the letters to European officials notifying them of the postponement.
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Spain’s Protesters See ‘Madness’ of Rising Rent and a ‘Martyr’ in Maricarmen

8 October 2026 at 21:27
Thousands of protesters marched in Madrid on Thursday, a day after the death of María del Carmen Abascal, an 87-year-old whose eviction became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis.

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Protesters marched in memory of Maria del Carmen Abascal, who was widely known as Maricarmen, in Madrid on Thursday. Soaring rents have far outpaced wage growth in Spain, according to an analysis by the newspaper El País.

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Art of Surgery?

7 October 2026 at 09:00
Canada wants to leverage A.I. to improve its health care system. At a Toronto hospital, surgeons are training a machine to distinguish a safe incision from a catastrophic one.

© Cole Burston for The New York Times

Dr. Madani, left, and Dr. Timothy Jackson, perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery on a patient at Toronto General Hospital, with the help of visual A.I. guides.

Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Author of Seminal Anticolonial Novel, Dies at 98

6 October 2026 at 13:55
The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature who subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the continent’s people.

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane in 2011. Mr. Kane subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the African people.
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